How our knitwear is made.
Fine gauges, fully fashioned, hand-linked and finished by hand.
Each piece is knitted to shape panel by panel, joined stitch by stitch, then washed, pressed, checked and labelled. It passes through many pairs of hands before it is folded, and every one of those steps is a decision about how the finished piece will wear.
What you get from it is comfort you notice without looking for it. Seams that lie flat under a coat. Shoulders that sit where they should and sleeves that don’t twist. A knit that keeps its shape after washing instead of growing at the cuffs. It is the difference between a sweater you like and one you keep reaching for.
Hand-linked.
Every seam is joined by hand, stitch by stitch. It takes longer. It’s also the only way to get a finish this clean — invisible on the outside, precise on the inside.
Linking is the step that joins the knitted panels: shoulder to shoulder, sleeve to body, rib to neckline. It is done on a linking machine, where each loop of the knit is placed by hand onto a point of a slowly turning dial, one stitch at a time, so the panels are joined loop to loop rather than sewn through the fabric.
For you that means a seam with no ridge in it. Nothing rubs at the shoulder or under the arm, nothing digs in when you reach, and because the join stretches with the knit it doesn’t strain or split where a stitched seam would. It is what makes a fine knit comfortable enough to wear against the skin.
Fully fashioned.
Each part of the garment is knit to shape separately — no cutting, no waste. The result is a piece that fits the way it was always meant to.
The machine adds and drops stitches to shape the armhole, the shoulder and the sleeve, so every part comes off it finished, with its own clean edge. The panels are made for each other before they are ever joined.
Because nothing is cut away, the edges stay stable: the knit doesn’t fray, the shoulder line holds, the hem stays where it was meant to sit. The piece follows the body instead of hanging off it, and it still fits the same after a season of wearing and washing. Less yarn is lost along the way, which is the quieter reason we work this way.
Hand-finished.
The final touches — every detail checked and finished by hand. Small things that add up to something you can feel the moment you put it on.
After linking, each piece is washed and pressed so the stitches settle and the yarn opens up. Then it is looked over: seams and ribs, the set of the collar, ends darned in, loose threads trimmed, the label sewn in by hand. Anything that is not right goes back.
It is the reason a piece feels resolved in your hands rather than merely new: nothing to cut off before the first wear, no thread working itself loose after a month, a collar that keeps its shape. Quiet, unglamorous work, and the difference between a piece that looks good on the rail and one that still looks like itself after three winters.