Without specific examples to examine, how do you know the hose in a painting are knit rather than cut cloth?

I will try and pull up the articles I have on the various bog bodies, as I can not remember if they had cut cloth or knit hose.

I would say that knitting anything other than a solid color is quite tedious, it might even be quicker and easier to weave multicolored cloth over trying to knit something, prior to the invention of knitting machines.