Straight to the pieces

Knit, cut and sewn by ZANDO. Ordering happens on our retail partner.

Who is knitting

Inside the salt room

We are ZANDO. We knit and sew socks, swimwear, beanies, thermals and tights, and this site is where we explain how each piece is put together.

What we make

Our range starts with socks and grows outward. Team knee highs with deep ribs, cushioned crews, plain everyday pairs with flat toe seams. Around them sit swimsuits and rash guards, ribbed and cable beanies, fleece lined thermals, scarves, wraps, belts and tights.

Every piece on this site is one we knit or sew. There are 153 of them here, across 8 sections, built on 135 distinct designs. Where a design comes in more than one colourway, each colourway is listed on its own.

Why the catalogue is sorted this way

Most clothing sites sort by season. Rain falls on a Tuesday in spring the same way it does in late autumn, so a season name tells you very little about what to put on. We sort by three questions instead: what the weather is doing, who the piece is for, and what they will be doing in it.

Those three answers point at a rib depth, a yarn and a seam. That is the whole idea behind the picker and behind the way the sections are laid out.

What we say and what we leave out

We describe construction: the yarn, the rib, the heel, the lining, the way a seam is closed. We do not tell you what a piece will do for your body, because we cannot know that and we are not going to guess.

Where a rating appears next to a piece, it comes from the storefront listing. Most pieces here do not carry one, and we leave that space empty rather than filling it in.

Where the buying happens

You cannot check out here. Every buy button hands you over to our retail partner, and the order, the payment, the dispatch and any return all live on their side. We keep this site for the knitting.

Back to the rack

153 pieces across 8 sections, sorted by weather, wearer and what you are doing in them.

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