Wide cable knitwear advice

[Backstitch]

Love this type of ultra chunky, wide cable knitwear as pictured, but can't justify the Brunello Cucinelli near USD 4000 prices for a sweater. Does anyone know quality brands that offer similar options for more reasonable prices?

 

[yorkshire pud]

SNS Herning

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[double00]

big fat cables like that are the realm of hand knitting

 

[dieworkwear]

big fat cables like that are the realm of hand knitting

That Cucinelli sweater is machine-made.

 

[double00]

That Cucinelli sweater is machine-made.

OP isn't considering that sweater ( $4000? lol ok ) , but , is asking for alts .

re: wide machine cables you *can* do it via increasing and decreasing stitches on either side of the cable . i'd guess you could also do it by stuffing a thicker yarn through a smaller gauge rig , dime the dial , and do a straight up cross . personally i'm not crazy about either .

as far as OPs topic of where to look ... i'd look at beams , prl , rlpl , etsy etc .

 

[Backstitch]

Many thanks for the provided pointers and thoughts. Will explore the options.

 

[dieworkwear]

The problem with that sort of thing is that it's dependent on the designer's seasonal collection. For example, I know Luciano Barbera has made a similar design in the past, but the company doesn't currently carry it in their collection. This is not like, say, buying an Aran from Inis Meain, where the designs are reasonably consistent. Something like this changes from season to season.

I haven't seen anything like that this season. Not sure if something exists.

 

[diokanye]

That Cucinelli sweater is machine-made.

This is actually one of the only ones for men's that BC hand makes. Women's has a small collection called Opera that employ the same process. Straight up knitting needles

 

[dieworkwear]

This is actually one of the only ones for men's that BC hand makes. Women's has a small collection called Opera that employ the same process. Straight up knitting needles

That sweater looks like it was done on a loom, and I know sometimes companies call hand-loomed sweaters "hand knit." Some loomed sweaters even involve intricate crochet work. The stitching is too even and uniform for it to be hand knit with needles. Are you sure it was done with knitting needles, like what a grandma would do?

 

[diokanye]

That sweater looks like it was done on a loom, and I know sometimes companies call hand-loomed sweaters "hand knit." Some loomed sweaters even involve intricate crochet work. The stitching is too even and uniform for it to be hand knit with needles. Are you sure it was done with knitting needles, like what a grandma would do?

Yes I'm sure. I was surprised too, but with that gauge it's easier to hide imperfections. Even my own mom makes blankets in a 2.5 or 3 gauge that look perfect.
You can still see some imperfections if you zoom.

 

[double00]

hand knitting naturally compresses the developing fabric in process , the only tension is in the the working stitch, so it's naturally easy to cross the wales of stitches in the cable - i count 12 stitches across the cable rib here , and it really wouldn't matter to a hand knitter .

machine knitting works the opposite way , the work is stretched across the entire row , to do cables you have to actually cross the groups of stitches in the rib ( there are ways of cheating the cable as i've pointed out ) and a machine will present some threshold of width , it's simply the limit of the machine . so typically you'd see like 6 stitches across on most machined cables . i've never used a knitting loom so really couldn't weigh in there ...

 

[double00]

so , to discuss ... here's a piece

the dye treatment aside ( this is from the late Virgil Abloh ) let's a take a look :

here the wide cables are split , to facilitate ( aka , cheat ) machine knitting and no less create an aesthetic moment .

works for me !