MERZ B. SCHWANEN was originally founded in 1911 in the German Alps and operated for several decades before closing. In 2010, Peter Plotnicki discovered the factory full of authentic knitting machines from the 1920s to the 1960s, covered in dust, but completely intact. So he decided to revive these machines to make new, but traditionally made circular knitted fabrics, with good and sustainable materials, passion, heart and soul.