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WHAT IS LOOPWHEEL?

Loopwheel is a way of knitting cotton yarns with a special loopwheel machine. Currently, there are only two factories in the world that make tube-knit, loopwheel fabric. One is in Wakayama, Japan, and the other is in the Swabian Alps of Germany with Merz B. Schwanen. The Rite Stuff’s Pocket T-shirt is made with loopwheel cotton fabric from Wakayama. The idea is that the fabric machine hangs and the fabric it knits falls from the machine, placing no tension on the fabric.

. This allows loopwheel machines to create a denser and softer cotton fabric. The only way to recreate this fabric today is to use the tubeknit, loopwheel machines from these two surviving factories.

WHAT MAKES LOOPWHEEL WORTH BUYING?

Loopwheeled garment it promises a softer feel and stronger construction than other knits made on modern machines; the fabric is woven with a high stitch count under as little tension as possible, resulting in a product that is arguably the best t-shirt material you can possibly get.

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