Cable Knit Sweater Manufacturer

What we make in cable knit

Cable knits and Aran-style textures, in crewnecks, roll-necks and turtlenecks — the two cable pieces in the gallery above are our own production, not a stock library. The same construction carries across to cardigans and pullovers.

Like every sweater here, a cable knit is knitted to shape: front, back and sleeves are each knitted as finished panels on flat-bed machines, then joined on a linking machine and finished by hand. Nothing is cut from cloth.

Why a cable is a harder brief than a plain knit

A cable pulls the fabric in. The same panel width in a plain stitch and in a cable does not come off the machine at the same size, so the programme has to be set for your finished measurements in every size rather than copied from a plain-knit block. That is why the swatching and tension-correction round comes before anything sellable is made.

Yarn matters more here than on a plain rib. A chunky yarn gives a bold, sculptural cable; a fine one gives a delicate texture, and they are different machines and different setup times. We confirm gauge, yarn composition and yarn count against your reference garment or tech pack before quoting, rather than publishing a range we would then have to retract.

Minimum, colours and lead time

Cable-knit sweaters start at 500 pieces per style — a different floor from the 50-piece minimum on jersey hoodies and tees, for the reasons on the parent knitwear page. The minimum is per style, not per size: your size curve sits inside one style. Within one cable design you can generally run more than one colourway against the same setup, because the programming is shared and only the yarn changes; the exact split is confirmed at quote.

A custom knit and dye run adds 7–10 days on top of standard 12–15 day production, and the sampling round sits in front of that. Cable knit is an autumn-winter product, so brief it in the first half of the year, when flat-bed capacity is not yet booked by everyone else.

What to send us

• A physical reference sweater if you have one — for knitwear it tells us more than any specification
• Or a photograph of the cable pattern and the finished measurements you want per size
• The yarn you have in mind, or a description of the hand-feel, so we can confirm what we can source
• Your destination market, because it decides what the care label must carry

What we cannot certify

Our facility is BSCI certified for social compliance and we can source organic and recycled-content yarn. We cannot provide a GOTS, GRS or OEKO-TEX certificate chain for a knitwear programme — a certified claim needs a certified mill behind it, and we will tell you so rather than let you find out at audit.