Football scarf production at Wildemasche
Football scarf production facts
The history of jacquard scarves
The football scarf is knitted in jaquard technique. At the beginning of the 19th century, a french weaver called Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a technique to weave complicated patterns in an automated way. The principle of Monsieur Jacquard was transfered to knitting. That's how complicated patterns can be knitted easily nowadays.
Football scarf design
You can design your scarf online or send the design with email. In order to produce a football scarf at a good price, you can create the scarf design online.
Wildemasche can do the scarf design for you as well, and can provide hints and tipps. A custom logo or badge can be knitted in.
Alternatively, you can use the online designer to create your scarf design. According to this pixel accurat pattern, the football scarf will be knitted. One pixel in the image becomes one knitted stitch in the scarf.
How a football scarf is produced
The design resp. the image is converted to a knitting program and loaded in the knitting machine. The yarn is mounted on the knitting machine. The yarn colors can be chosen from a palette of 15 colors. The yarn is already dyed.
Scarf production on modern knitting machines
The fanscarves are knitted on modern 12 gauge knitting machines 12 gauge means there are 12 needle per inch, so this is kind of the resolution of the knitwear, similar to DPI for printing. Compared to a 8 gauge or 10 gauge, more knitted stitches per inch can be knitted, so the stitches are smaller. Thus more details can be displayed. Your team logo can be knitted very detailed this way. Or any other design or motif, like a photo, pattern, team crest, emblem etc.
Overmore, this knitting resolution provides for a better mesh size, because colors that are not knitted have to be carried along on the backside.
Due to this mesh size advantage, we are able to produce high quality soccer scarves for any team worldwide. Any amount starting from single pieces is possible, no minimum, the scarves are manufactured separately on the machine, with you customized design or text.
The front and backside of the scarf is knitted together on one side, the other side is sewed together after the knitting process.
The fringes don't have to be made extra, they are knitted together with the scarf at the knitting machine.