Stoll Fashion & Technology is an important department of H. Stoll GmbH & Co. KG, a leading international manufacturer of flat knitting machinery. This department is where fashion and technique combine to create many different trendsetting applications for both fashion designers and patterning technicians.
The ideas will be developed in response to fashion and market trends and then produced using Stoll’s patented knitting technology.The employees of the Fashion & Technology Department are in touch with the global knitting network which enables them to create new patterning and fashion trends on a regular basis. Fashion companies and designers can take inspiration from these designs for their own trend collection. The creation of new and unique knitted articles results from a combination of the latest fabric and patterning trends with the abilities of Stoll knitting technology. The Fashion & Technology Department also continues its’ original function to develop innovative knitting technology equipment and processes which would then be applied to Stoll flat knitting machines. Stoll offers several resources of fashion inspiration for members of the industry. The Stoll Trend Collection is produced several times per year and shows the current pattern and knitting innovations that Stoll is promoting. These brochures are distributed during international exhibitions and are available in the showrooms of numerous marketing organizations. Stoll maintains an extensive pattern archive which consists of patterning samples ranging from the latest trends to samples that are several decades old. The online Stoll pattern shop provides these patterns to download for viewing or individual development. Stoll’s engineered tools, such as the Stoll Knit ABC and the Stoll Pattern Library, are useful and valuable sources of information for fashion designers and agencies. The many activities of Fashion and Technology are performed in the studios and showrooms based in Reutlingen, Germany and Manhattan, New York USA. Here, the current Trend Collections and patterning archive can be viewed. This is also where support is offered to knitwear designers, fashion companies and patterning technicians if they have any questions about the realization of knitting ideas. As a result, it is very common to see fashion concepts become knitted reality.
