Life Is Golden × Whalerknits · First release
The Golden Wellfleet.
A New England rollneck. A familiar golden. A number written just for yours. Our first sweater with Whalerknits, made in Fall River, Massachusetts.
A New England rollneck. A familiar golden. A number written just for yours. Our first sweater with Whalerknits, made in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Join the release list for the first invitation to shop our numbered Wellfleet. We'll email your invitation when the sweaters are ready to buy and ship.
Planned for October. We'll confirm the date when the sweaters are ready. Joining does not guarantee a particular color, size or garment number.
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The maker's words, not ours: whalerknits.com/made-in-usa ↗
Four-gauge cotton jersey, with the kind of weight you notice and the softness you settle into. Rolled at the neck, cuffs and hem.
Small, on the left chest, in muted gold thread. A familiar companion on a sweater made for the places, people and ordinary days you love.
The Fall River Knitting Mill has been making sweaters in southeastern Massachusetts for over a century, and Whalerknits still designs, knits, cuts and sews every one there. Whalerknits brings a life spent making knitwear. Life Is Golden brings the company we keep. This sweater is where those stories meet.
Their story, in their words ↗The Merrow family begin making textiles in America. Whalerknits is owned and operated by that family today.
Frank and Flora Reitzas, immigrants from Minsk, start a knitting company in New York with a single machine, later moving it to Fall River. In the maker's words, the mill "never closed. It never moved offshore."
Whalerknits is founded, named for the whaling towns of coastal Massachusetts.
The Golden Wellfleet. Our first release together: the Wellfleet rollneck in Natural and Navy. A golden on the chest, a golden thread inside, and a label numbered by hand.
Inside the lower hem, a woven Life Is Golden label carries a number written by hand. A golden thread follows the inside seam. A quiet golden binding finishes the back of the neck.
Details for the person wearing it. A first chapter you'll always be able to recognize.
Join the release listDesign previews. Final details will be confirmed with the production sample.
Renderings — real photographs come with the first sample
Golden hour, the long way home. Navy on him, Natural on her, and the one who always walks ahead.
At anchor. Nowhere to be. A head in your lap.
Close. The mark, where a hand goes.
Coffee on the dock. Lobster traps, a good joke, a dog who thinks it was about him.
Tailgate, low sun. The dog's asleep before you've poured the thermos.
The look. You know the one.
Some things become part of the family. A sweater that lives by the door and comes along.
Heavyweight cotton jersey rollneck · Embroidered golden on the left chest · Knit by Whalerknits in Fall River, Massachusetts
Images are renderings. The first production sample replaces them.
A relaxed, generous fit. See the maker's size guide ↗. We'll share final fit details before purchase.
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