{"title":"Merz b. Schwanen","description":"\u003csection class=\"s_text_image o_colored_level pt16 pb0\" data-snippet=\"s_text_image\" data-name=\"Text - Image\" id=\"Text---Image\" data-anchor=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container-fluid\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"row align-items-center\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt16 pb16 o_colored_level offset-lg-1 col-lg-4\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"o_default_snippet_text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt all began with a henley shirt, more than 90 years old, from a Berlin flea market.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"o_default_snippet_text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGitta and Peter Plotnicki both studied fashion design, and Peter is also a trained men's tailor. They immediately sensed that this find was a very special item. They held an original worker's henley from 1911 in their hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"s_text_image o_colored_level pb0 pt0\" data-snippet=\"s_text_image\" data-name=\"Text - Image\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container-fluid\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"row align-items-center\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"pb16 o_colored_level col-lg-6 pt16\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merzbschwanen.com\/manufacturing-good-originals\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/merzbschwanen.com\/web\/image\/1478021-910692b5\/loopwheeler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img img-fluid mx-auto o_we_custom_image\" data-original-id=\"1304984\" data-original-src=\"\/web\/image\/1304984-54638606\/loopwheeler.jpg\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" data-resize-width=\"962\" loading=\"lazy\" data-bs-original-title=\"\" title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"tooltip100790\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt16 pb16 o_colored_level offset-lg-1 col-lg-4\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"o_default_snippet_text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe search for the henley’s origin led the two to the Swabian Alb in Germany. Once a thriving center of textile manufacturing, the region's factories went silent decades ago with the 20th century's race toward mass production, automation, and ubiquity. In Albstadt, Gitta and Peter met one of the region's last textile manufacturers, Rudolf Loder, who invited the couple to see something very special. In a disused factory stood rows of authentic loopwheelers, already gathering dust. The original circular knitting machines, whose origins date back from 1889 to the 1960s, are the only loopwheelers still in existence in Germany.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"o_default_snippet_text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Gitta and Peter, the machines were signposts to the past, which they did not yet know would also determine their future. The thread that ties everything together – past, present, and future – is the Merz b. Schwanen brand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"s_text_image o_colored_level pt0 pb0\" data-snippet=\"s_text_image\" data-name=\"Text - Image\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container-fluid\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"row align-items-center\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt16 pb16 o_colored_level col-lg-6\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/merzbschwanen.com\/web\/image\/1679055-95b5bf76\/ALB_History%20Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img img-fluid mx-auto o_we_custom_image o_we_image_cropped\" data-original-id=\"1325193\" data-original-src=\"\/web\/image\/1325193-943b4235\/ALB_History%20Kopie.jpg\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" data-bs-original-title=\"\" title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"tooltip687726\" data-y=\"301.22368421052636\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080.0000000000002\" data-scale-x=\"1\" data-scale-y=\"1\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt16 pb16 o_colored_level offset-lg-1 col-lg-4\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"o_default_snippet_text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFounded in 1911 by Balthasar Merz, Merz b. 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