Ex­tra­or­di­nary ma­te­ri­als need ex­tra­or­di­nary work­man­ship.

Mai­son Del­phine works with a small fam­i­ly-run knitwear man­u­fac­tur­er in North­ern Italy, who, with over 30 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence, spe­cialise in tra­di­tion­al tech­niques to cre­ate cus­tom-made items – in oth­er words, "fat­to a mano".

Cus­tomised in­di­vid­ual pieces re­quire very high tech­ni­cal flex­i­bil­i­ty on­ly of­fered by tra­di­tion­al hand-knit­ting ma­chines. Each and every row of knit­ting is set in­di­vid­u­al­ly by hand ac­cord­ing to the ex­act stitch num­ber and pre­cise to the cen­time­tre – A chal­leng­ing task that re­quires a lot of knowl­edge, ex­pe­ri­ence, and skill.

The knit­ters ­– 'maglieris­te' – need pro­fes­sion­al tech­ni­cal train­ing and many years of on-the-job ex­pe­ri­ence to mas­ter the high pre­ci­sion of this old crafts­man­ship. Recog­nis­able by lov­ing de­tails such as the hand-re­in­forced but­ton­holes, the beau­ti­ful cro­chet hooks, and trim­mings or the clean seams, a sweater re­quires 12–15 hours of fine hand­work. Watch­ing the nim­ble, care­ful hands of the 'maglieris­te' at work is an im­pres­sive sight.

To­day, such man­u­fac­tures are rare. Many have not sur­vived the in­dus­tri­al de­vel­op­ment. We are all the more for­tu­nate to have found 'our' man­u­fac­tur­er.

It is the un­com­pro­mis­ing choice of fine crafts­man­ship 

that makes our knitwear pieces so spe­cial.    

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