- Armedangels
- Armor Lux. Knitwear
- Atoma. Notebook and organizing system
- Blue de Gênes. Fashion
- Cuboro. Marble Runs
- Bolichwerke. Archetypal Lighting
- Bonnat. Chocolate
- Bree. Bags
- Brütting. Shoes
- Cavalieri. Pasta
- Claudia Lanius. Fashion
- Chico. Hammocks
- Christiane Strobel. Fashion
- Davey Lighting. Luminaires from England
- Dovo. Manicure Instruments
- Elephant. Beer garden furniture
- Precision engineering K. Fischer
- Fermob. French garden furniture
- Giese. Sanitary manufactory
- Goyon-Chazeau. Cutlery
- Güde. Knives
- Hack Lederware. Leather Goods
- Haflinger slippers
- Robert Herder. Knife Manufacture
- Herrnhuter Sterne
- Hiddenseer Kutterfischer
- Hiltl pants
- Hohenmoorer Messermanufaktur
- Hornmanufaktur Petz. Horn combs
- Hydrophil. For the love of water
- Inis Meáin. Knitwear
- Kaweco. Writing instruments
- Klar. Soaps from Heidelberg
- Kösener Spielzeug Manufaktur. Stuffed animals
- Knowledge Cotton Apparel. Green Fashion
- Krumpholz. Garden tools
- Kreis Ledermanufaktur. Leather Goods
- Louis Poulsen. Danish lamps
- Merz beim Schwanen. Clothing
- Milantoast
- Moccamaster filter coffee machines
- Naseweiss. Wooden toys
- Nohrd. Wooden sports equipment
- Novila. Underwear & Nightwear
- Pike Brothers
- Rampal. Marseilles soaps
- Red Wing Shoe Company
- Riess. Enamelled Pots and Pans
- Rofa workwear
- Seldom. Knitwear
- Silampos. Energy saving pots and pans
- Upholstered furniture from Sinn
- Sneeboer. Garden Tools
- Sonnenleder. Leather Goods
- TON. Coffee house chairs
- Turk. Forged iron pans
- Victoria. Pans & Pots
- Waldmann. Writing Implements
- Werkhaus
Manufacturer
Merz b. Schwanen. Revived tradition
The Swabian Alb was once one of the most important textile regions in Germany. One of the companies located there was the tricotagen factory Merz b. Schwanen, founded in 1911. Its tradition has been revived by Peter Plotnicki from Berlin together with his wife Gitta. For some years now, shirts and sports pants have once again been manufactured there - not infrequently on original circular knitting machines from the years 1920 to 1960. They run very slowly and thus make possible the high density, the characteristic structure, the pithy feel and the shape retention of the knitwear.
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