Every Lars Andersson garment begins not with a machine, but with a pair of hands. In a quiet studio in Kathmandu, a small team of artisans works a hand-loom thread by thread — the same way knitwear has been made for generations, long before factories learned to do it faster. It is slow. It is deliberate. And it is the entire point.

This is the story of how a single piece comes to exist: where it starts, the fibers we insist on, the hands that shape it, and why we choose to make everything to order rather than by the thousand.

CHAPTER ONEA Studio Born of Two Worlds

Lars Andersson began in a Brooklyn studio in the mid-2000s, where Lars produced his own take on high-quality knitwear — a quiet, considered aesthetic shaped by his Swedish roots and a love of minimalist design. Clean lines. Honest materials. Nothing superfluous.

In 2013, Lars traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, to create a sample collection. What he found there changed the brand's course entirely: an extraordinary depth of skill and craftsmanship among the local artisans, the kind that can only be passed down by hand over many years. He decided to move sampling and production from New York to Kathmandu for good.

In 2020, Lars opened a dedicated knitting studio alongside his Nepali business partner. Today, every garment is hand-loomed there by a small team of highly skilled craftspeople — a meeting of Swedish minimalism and Himalayan craft.

CHAPTER TWOThe Fibers We Choose

A garment can only ever be as good as the fiber it's made from. We work exclusively with the purest natural fibers — superfine merino wool, cashmere, and organic cotton — chosen for how they feel against the skin and how beautifully they age.

Superfine merino is featherlight yet warm, with a softness that has nothing to do with bulk. Cashmere brings an unmistakable, quiet luxury. Organic cotton lends structure and breathability. None of these are the cheapest choice — but they are the reason a Lars Andersson piece drapes the way it does, and the reason it lasts for years rather than seasons.

CHAPTER THREEHand-Loomed, Not Mass-Produced

This is where time slows down. Rather than feeding yarn into an automated machine, our artisans work each piece on a hand-loom — guiding the tension, the stitch, and the shape by feel and experience. A single garment can take many hours, sometimes days, to complete.

That patience shows. Hand-loomed knit has a character no machine can replicate: a subtle irregularity, a sense of weight and life, the quiet evidence of a human hand. It is the difference between something manufactured and something made.

CHAPTER FOURThe Colour of Hand-Dyeing

Once knitted, many pieces are hand-dyed in the studio. Hand-dyeing is unpredictable in the most beautiful way: no two batches are ever identical, and colour settles into the fiber with a depth and softness that industrial dyeing flattens out. A deep burgundy, an espresso brown, a true black — each carries faint variations that make your piece unmistakably yours.

CHAPTER FIVEMade to Order

We make almost everything to order. It's slower for everyone — but it means we don't produce garments that no one will wear, we don't generate needless waste, and every piece is created with a specific person in mind. In an industry built on overproduction, choosing to make only what is wanted feels like the only honest way to work.

When you order a Lars Andersson piece, it is knitted, finished, and dyed for you. That is why it takes a little longer to arrive — and why it's worth the wait.

An Object With a Memory

A hand-loomed garment remembers the hands that made it. It carries the patience of the artisan, the quality of the fiber, and the quiet philosophy of making less, but making it well. We hope that when you wear one, you feel some of that — and that it stays with you for many years to come.

Explore the collection at larsandersson.net — hand-loomed knitwear in superfine merino, cashmere, and organic cotton.