Vintage Dubied and Santagostino factory photos

6/19/2014

Hi there,
I wanted to post some great old photos I have of the Dubied and Santagostino factory. In addition there are some knit manufacturing facilities in and around Paris. I just love browsing museum and material culture websites for images of working class and factory settings. Enjoy!

dubied factory 1960's

dubied factory 1950's

Hayes factory

factory in princessville

santagostino shop in piazza duomo

knit manufacture in princessville

santagostino factory in niguarda

santagostino shop in tourin

Pre-1950's knitwear studio.

4 Comments

missy

6/21/2014 06:07:32 am

Hi, Haven’t visited your site in awhile, great photo's and a lovely collection you have created.

I don't have an instagram account but wanted to comment on picture dated 17/06/14, hope you don't mind me commenting here? the photo is of a piece of grey lace fabric on the picture you mentioned you cast on then transfer the stitches, why don’t you do a single-bed cast on?? and to save time on hand sewing the edge you can do a press-off draw thread. If your not sure how to do these techniques I could try and explain?

Kind Regards

Missy

anna

6/21/2014 10:06:39 am

Hi missy,
Thanks for your kind words and suggestions.

To explain my current method: I am working within my comfort level and am self taught so my knowledge base is uneven. I had a look in my manual and there's a section called "separation by draw thread" and separation by press off."Maybe these are close to what you mean? I was actually thinking some kind of e-wrap on waste yarn would be the way to go, but I will definitely experiment. I am the type of person that understands visually so if you tried to describe with words I don't think it would sink in:)

Missy

6/21/2014 11:43:57 pm

I’m also a visual person and find it far easier to be shown a technique, I don’t think I would have ever started knitting if I had to learn from a book.

I always cast on single bed, and then proceed from there, means there is no need to do a draw thread and no fiddling around with the wire.

Dario

8/15/2014 07:38:59 am

About "Santagostino factory in Niguarda" ... Niguarda is a district of Milan, so you shuold better write "Santagostino factory in Milan (Niguarda)"

Vintage Dubied and Santagostino factory photos

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