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An undyed knit on the stand, the gauge shifting from dense to almost translucent
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Knitwear

The sweater argued as a serious garment: a whole collection made on the needle, shaped on the body and never on the machine.

A running thread · Needle, gauge, the counted row
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The stance

What knitwear means here

Not the soft interlude between tailored looks, but the whole atelier: knitwear graded from the undyed fleece, knitted in one piece where a seam would be a lie, counted by eye to the last row. You can knit a whole argument, if you are patient enough. Below, the stories that do.

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5 stories
Two makers at a four-hand loom, mid-row, working a single piece between them The four-hand atelier, one stitch at a timeKnitwear · Long read A hand-turned cuff in undyed corriedale wool, construction left visible The turned cuff, and why it keeps returningKnitwear · Technique
The luxury is the labour, and the restraint is the point. The knitwear stance
An older hand-linker closing a knit seam by eye at the bench Counting rows by eye: the last hand-linkersKnitwear · The makers Undyed cloth swatches in grades of natural grey, no dye lot Undyed, unbleached: the case for the natural greyKnitwear · Materials Skeins dipped in natural dye drying on a line, muted earth tones A field guide to natural dyeKnitwear · Reference

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