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i have a noob question, how to distinguish hand loom or machine made sweaters ?
i check my sweaters, but don't find big differences
beg for explanation by pics
The type of loom that he operates became obsolete more than 75 years ago, when most manufacturers abandoned it in favor of automated equipment that can produce in minutes what a knitter such as Hope requires days to make. While Ballantyne utilizes mass-production machinery for many of its knits, it also continues to operate more than two dozen hand looms at its dingy, 85-year-old knitting factory in Innerleithen, Scotland, located a picturesque hour’s drive south of Edinburgh. “Other cashmere companies—such as Malo, Loro Piana, and Brunello Cucinelli—try to duplicate the look of a hand-knit sweater, but they do it with machines because they need the mass quantity to be profitable,” explains Tom Harkness, Ballantyne’s Scotland-based chief operating officer, who oversees the company’s 28 hand knitters laboring in the factory and the 15 working from home.
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from what i read, i guess those italy makers maybe also use some hand loom to make a handful sweaters.
i want to know how to tell apart, rather than avoid all italy maker as i now do.
Like most quality knitwear, Loro Piana’s is fully fashioned, meaning that the back, front and sleeves are knitted to size and then knitted together. More unusual is their range of knitting machines, from the large and rapid to the small and delicate.
It is the latter type - hand operated, sometimes referred to as 'flat bed' - that enables more experimental pieces, while the range of machinery makes it easier to produce made-to-measure knitwear relatively inexpensively (usually around a 20% surcharge).
i check my sweaters, but don't find big differences
beg for explanation by picsThe type of loom that he operates became obsolete more than 75 years ago, when most manufacturers abandoned it in favor of automated equipment that can produce in minutes what a knitter such as Hope requires days to make. While Ballantyne utilizes mass-production machinery for many of its knits, it also continues to operate more than two dozen hand looms at its dingy, 85-year-old knitting factory in Innerleithen, Scotland, located a picturesque hour’s drive south of Edinburgh. “Other cashmere companies—such as Malo, Loro Piana, and Brunello Cucinelli—try to duplicate the look of a hand-knit sweater, but they do it with machines because they need the mass quantity to be profitable,” explains Tom Harkness, Ballantyne’s Scotland-based chief operating officer, who oversees the company’s 28 hand knitters laboring in the factory and the 15 working from home.
Style: Knitting Wits
Richard hope’s rough and rugged hands suggest that the 63-year-old Scottish textile worker spends his 10-hour days wrestling with the heaviest machinery. But as he knits a delicate single-ply intar…
robbreport.com
from what i read, i guess those italy makers maybe also use some hand loom to make a handful sweaters.
i want to know how to tell apart, rather than avoid all italy maker as i now do.
Like most quality knitwear, Loro Piana’s is fully fashioned, meaning that the back, front and sleeves are knitted to size and then knitted together. More unusual is their range of knitting machines, from the large and rapid to the small and delicate.
It is the latter type - hand operated, sometimes referred to as 'flat bed' - that enables more experimental pieces, while the range of machinery makes it easier to produce made-to-measure knitwear relatively inexpensively (usually around a 20% surcharge).
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