So that your customers enjoy the Musearta products for a long time as possible, we recommend washing them up to a maximum of 40 degrees. However, they should not be bleached or ironed. Professional cleaning is possible with perchlorethylene.

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We try to choose works of art from all important art pokes. Of course, we have to note whether we can at all acquire the rights for the corresponding works of art.

In addition, a work of art must also be feasible. We work with very high -quality machines that can knit up to 17 colors in a row, but if the number of colors goes beyond, we have to say at a work of art that it is not possible as a knitted version.

Our socks are knitted and not printed. That is a decisive difference.

When printing you can print the sock flat, i.e. the front and back, but then has the problem that you have a strip on the sides where no color has come. These two strips can then be seen as vertical white stripes in the sock.

Alternatively, you can put on a sock on one leg and print it all around. This is significantly more expensive, then the white stripes fall away. However, in both variants you have the problem that the color intensity is massively lost when it is pressure and you can see the under material. In addition, the motif with this technique distorts itself strongly.

You could stretch the sock slightly and then print it, but that would have the disadvantage that the motif in the shop does not look so beautiful because you have anticipated a certain strain, but the sock would look strange in the unpainted state on the sales shelf.

With us, the socks are knitted, on single -cylinder machines, usually with an extremely high number of needles of 200 needles. This is the number of needles attached to the knitting cylinder.

The differently colored threads run into these knitting cylinders. Then when a place comes where the machine wants to knit a white eye, the machine gets the thread in the color white, knit one or two machine, let go of the thread and get the next thread. It is particularly important to our machines that we can process up to 17 colors in a horizontal series.

From the inside, a sock looks purely theoretically like a sweater that was knitted in Jacquard technology. However, the sock would not be stretchy. A sweater does not have to be stretchy, because it sits loosely, with a sock you want it to sit and lie tight. The problem with the sock is that the foot in the front area is wider than in the lower leg area directly above the heel. The leg is the thinnest there and the sock has to sit there. But the foot has to come into the sock, so the sock must be stretchy.

The sock can only be stretchy if the material from which the sock is is stretchy. Therefore, the accommodation of these socks is always made of polyamide with an elastan content. Without this proportion you cannot make these socks.

Now we would like to make socks with a very high proportion of cotton at Musearta and cotton is not stretchy. Everyone knows this who has jeans without an elastan content. Therefore, these non -elastic cotton threads must be cut off on the inside of the sock when knitting so that they can move inside the circuit - as the material is called. The thread is cut off and it can stretch the sock. So that the thread does not slip out of the composite of the individual stitches when stretching, it must be cut off in such a way that it remains in the sock even when stretching and does not slip out on the outside. But this is only possible if he has a certain length.

These threads that run on the inside and are not visible as long as the machine does not get caught up and then only visible when the machine requires this thread in the special color hot float threads. If a machine now knits a color for a few stitches and then knits a different color over a very small number of stitches and then takes the first color to knit again, then the length may not flow on the inside It is long enough so that the machine can be attached to the inside of the cylinder with an automatic knife and can cut the thread. Depending on the machine type, the machine needs between 10 and 12 stitches to be able to cut at all. If there are fewer stitches, the thread stays hanging on the inside and continues to “flower”.

If a motif has extremely frequent color changes and the float threads were always very short, the machine cannot be used to cut, in such a case the sock would not be stretchy and you can't get in with your foot.

We try to help ourselves with very complex motifs by turning over the socks and threads that cannot automatically be cut with the machine by hand. This is possible with a float length of about eight stitches, but not with too few stitches, because then the thread flies out in front and that would not look nice.

In short: it is a highly complex topic, we check with stretching measuring machines how elastic a sock is at which point and really make a lot of effort in making our socks.

By the way: With double -cylinder machines you can let the threads run inside and do not cut them off, but with this machine type you can neither process as many colors as we do, nor do you have a sock in a size of 36 to this machine type To produce 40 or 40 to 46. Double cylinder socks can only be made in double sizes. Double cylinder machines are absolutely unsuitable for this type of motif socks.

The threads hanging on the inside are therefore not proof of less quality, as is always wrongly read on the Internet, but a necessity and contribute to the better wearing comfort of the socks.

We produce at different locations because not a single location would deliver what we need. With some motifs we need a lot of colors in a row, such machines run slower because the machine has to slow down with every color change and the cylinder can then rotate faster again. The more often the color changes are and the more colors are used, the lower the production quantity of a machine. This can only be 2-3 pairs an hour that we get produced on a machine.

Other machines can do less colors and are therefore more effective. Only through a calculation mix are we able to offer this highly complex socks at this price, because we also pay license fees for the right to use.

In addition, it is often a matter of availability of yarns. Having the yarn in many colors costs more money. Laving the yarn to be colored as required is cheaper in the corresponding production quantity, but makes you more inflexible and you have to be able to cope with the larger quantities.

It also depends on the motif where we give which design. Since a stitch is not square, different machines with the same leg length have different number of rows that are knitted. This fluctuates between 220 and 260 rows at the height of the leg.

So if a motif is particularly high and very detailed, it makes sense to go to a manufacturer in which the stitches are not quite as high and therefore fit more knitted rows on the shaft length specified by us, so we can work more precisely.