Est. 1975 · New England

Whalerknits

Named for the whaling towns of coastal Massachusetts. Born in the era of collegiate knitwear — when every university bookstore sold sweaters knit in New England mills. We've been making them ever since.

The Mill

In 1911, Frank and Flora Reitzas — immigrants from Minsk — started a knitting company in New York with one machine. Frank knit through the night. Flora sold what he made each morning.

They moved to Fall River to be closer to the textile trade. Three generations of the Reitzas family ran the mill for nearly a century — through the Great Depression, through the collapse of New England manufacturing, through it all.

The Fall River Knitting Mills never closed. It never moved offshore. It just kept knitting.

Today

502 Bedford Street. Fall River, Massachusetts.

We design it here. We knit it here. We cut it here. We sew it here. We ship it from here.

One of the last vertical knit manufacturers in America. Yarn comes in. Sweaters go out. Everything in between happens under one roof.

Lifetime Mending on every item — because we made it, we fix it.

Whalerknits is owned and operated by the Merrow family — American textile manufacturers since 1838.