We just dropped three new pieces for 2026. They cover three different approaches to knitwear: one plays with metallic finishes and sheer paneling, one is pure handwork, and one uses a 30/70 mohair-wool blend that weighs almost nothing.
Here’s what went into them — fabric choices, construction details, and why each piece works the way it does.
1. Metallic Yarn + Organza Tank: 12-Gauge, 72% Viscose-Cotton, 28% Imported Metallic Film
Most shiny knits use metallic threads woven straight into the fabric — scratchy against skin, and the coating flakes after a few washes. This tank doesn’t do that.
The 28% is imported metallic film twisted directly into the yarn. Light hits it and the shimmer comes from inside the fiber, not from a surface coating. The other 72% is medium-length viscose-cotton: cool to the touch, wicks moisture faster than pure cotton, and doesn’t cling.
The gauge is 12. Below 10, the fabric gets sheer. Above 14, it gets dense and heavy. 12 sits in the middle — a fine vertical rib that holds its shape without feeling thick.
The fit is a slim, elastic rib structure that moves with you and doesn’t bag out after a full day.
The Organza Chest Panel
The chest panel is organza — a lightweight, semi-sheer weave — color-matched and joined to the knit body with a gradient transition at the seam. The stitch density tapers from the knit into the organza so there’s no hard line where one fabric stops and the other starts.
On the body, you get a subtle see-through effect at the chest. Nothing obvious.
Material: 72% medium-length viscose-cotton, 28% imported metallic coated film
Gauge: 12-gauge fine rib
Fit: Slim, elastic, true to size
2. Hand-Crocheted Vest: 75% Acrylic, 25% Nylon, One Hook, 40+ Hours
There is no machine involved in this vest. One person, one crochet hook, roughly forty hours per piece.
The yarn is chunky — each stitch covers 3–4 times the area of a standard knit stitch, which means every loop has to land exactly where it should. The fiber blend is 75% acrylic and 25% nylon. Acrylic gives the yarn its loft and soft hand-feel. Nylon adds tensile strength and memory, so the yarn doesn’t snap during crochet and the garment doesn’t lose its shape with wear.
3D Texture Machines Can’t Fake
Crochet produces a 3D surface that flat knitting can’t replicate. Each stitch sits at a slightly different depth and angle. The front pattern has a raised, relief-like texture.
Flip it over and the back is a different texture entirely — a two-sided quality that only handwork delivers. Machine knitting always produces mirrored front and back faces.
The chunky yarn reads heavy, but acrylic is roughly 30% less dense than wool, so the vest weighs less than it looks. The gaps between crochet stitches are wider than machine-knit loops, so air moves through more freely than you’d expect.
Material: 75% acrylic, 25% nylon
Construction: Fully hand-crocheted, ~40 hours per piece
3. Mohair-Wool Blend Pullover: 30% Mohair, 70% Wool, Lightweight Warmth
Pure mohair looks beautiful and itches like crazy. Pure wool is comfortable but lacks that hazy halo effect. This pullover blends 30% mohair with 70% wool, and the ratio is deliberate, not a cost-cutting measure.
What Each Fiber Does
30% mohair handles the visuals. Long fibers create an even halo across the surface, about 2–3mm long. In warm light, the whole garment reads soft-focused.
70% wool does the structural work. Elasticity, shape retention, and a next-to-skin feel that wool provides and mohair can’t. Mohair fibers have large surface scales that feel rough on skin. Wool fibers are finer and more crimped. Wrapping them around the mohair means the skin touches wool, not mohair.
Mohair is a medullated fiber — it has hollow cores. That means at the same volume, it weighs about 30% less than regular wool, and those hollow chambers trap air. You get warmth without weight.
The pullover feels light in the hand but holds its own through late autumn temperatures. The dye behaves differently on mohair than on wool, so even a single-color yarn picks up subtle tonal variation as light shifts across the surface.
Material: 30% mohair, 70% wool
Weight: Lightweight with high warmth-to-weight ratio
4. Behind the Collection: Lewen Garment
These three pieces were made in-house at Lewen Garment. Since 2002, we’ve operated out of Dongguan, China as a one-stop knitwear manufacturer — yarn to finished product, all under one roof.
We work with independent designers, streetwear labels, and boutique brands who need more than a standard factory run. Our team is small (48 people) but built for speed:
- MOQ: 100 pieces per style
- Sample turnaround: 7–10 days
- Bulk production: 15–20 days
- Annual output: 100,000+ pieces
This collection shows the range of what we handle daily — metallic blended yarns, hand-crochet work, and mohair-wool in 12-gauge and up. Whether you need a cut-and-sew knit tank, a fully hand-crocheted statement piece, or a lightweight pullover with specific fiber ratios, we build it to your spec.
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