It was amazing to see inside John Smedley's as there are not many knitwear factories left in the UK
They had so many machines and different processes not only for the knitting but even to get the current thickness of yarn as well
The image above is of some yarn that has been used but then put back onto cones and have been put back in multi colours which i loved as you could just knit it as it is and could create a self colouring piece
Above are the trims to go onto finished jumper or tops
In the image above are some of the collars and trims coming off the machine all attached
This image is of the knitting machines computer
The machine above is the oldest machine in the factory which is still being used but is about to go into the archive as it isn't used a lot anymore so they want it to be kept in the archive
This was the room with all the Shima machines in, they also had some stoll machines in there as well
They had some of the shima machines that can knit the whole garment so that means the garment with have no seams
Once the garments are made they then go down here where they are washed
Above is the dying process where you can dye yarns all in the torpedo barrels
I then got shown around the quality checking and linking room
Where all the garments are linked together to make into the final garments
They are then packaged up and labelled ready to be sent out
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