Zweigart & Sawitzki GmbH & Co. KG
Booth number: 905
www.zweigart.com/
About us
As a traditional company with full-scale production, we have put our passion into developing and producing high-grade needlework fabrics, canvases and home textiles – since 1877. Made in Germany is the principle we are working under and are taking great pride in, since the very start in the 19th century.
Our premium fabrics are produced exclusively at the company’s headquarter in Germany. The name ZWEIGART® stands for top quality: We have been specializing in developing needlework fabrics which meet the highest production standards for over 145 years. We offer a range of needlework fabrics that is unique worldwide and sets itself apart with its wide choice of different qualities, the variety of counts and fashionable colours. Our fabrics are available in over 70 countries and are used by numerous well-known designers and manufacturers for their projects and needlework kits.
Address
Fronäckerstraße 50
71063 Sindelfingen
Germany
E-mail: info@zweigart.de
Phone: +49 7031 795 5
Internet: www.zweigart.com/
Contact person:
Frau Marion Braun
Sales Manager
E-mail: mbraun@zweigart.de
Phone: +49 171 2902428
Products & Services
AIDA fabrics
Linen fabrics
Evenweave fabrics
Canvas
Fabrics for freestyle embroidery
Punch Needle fabrics
Precut fabrics
Canvas
Canvases are open fabric meshes usually made of cotton. They form the woven textile base for many techniques and embroideries. Canvas is usually fully covered with embroidery over its entire area. Fine canvases from 6ct. to 18ct. are well suitable for example for cross-stitch works, needlepoint and satin stitch, while coarse canvases ranging from 3ct. to 5ct. are meant mainly for coarse (half) cross-stitch and latch-hook works.
A special finish lends the fabric a stiffness which makes it easier to embroider. Canvases from ZWEIGART® are woven from sturdy, even multiple twines, are in many cases heavily finished and feature a square and stitch-precise surface.
Our canvas range offers qualities to be printed on for further processing, as well as diverse types of special canvases for artists and creators. We offer a unique selection of single, double-threaded and twist canvases in white and natural color, as well as customized colors and counts produced upon the customer’s request.
Mono-canvas is a single-threaded canvas. It is woven in plain weave resulting in clear squares between the threads and this canvas being very well countable. A special finish prevents the threads from shifting.
Double-threaded canvases are also plain woven, but it has two threads packed close together, forming a stable woven checker made up of two warp and two weft threads. The opening between the woven checkers is clear and simplifies counting and embroidering. It is the classic canvas for tapestry and Gobelin works.
Twisted Canvas (Interlock) in which a warp thread twists around each of the weft threads to prevent threads from shifting. It is similar to single-threaded canvas but this canvas has a higher surface stability due to the special binding, an example would be item 9604 ZWEIGART-Twist.
Our canvases are divided into three categories: mono-canvas, twisted or interlock canvas, and double-threaded canvasses. Each canvas binding has different features and is particularly well-suited for certain embroideries or rug works. Which canvas is most suitable depends on the project at hand and the technique and material used.
AIDA fabrics
THE ABSOLUTE CLASSIC
This classic weave is the perfect fabric for an easy introduction to the traditional art of cross-stitch. With counts varying from 6ct. to 20ct. is great to use for beginners and professionals alike. This special weave creates clearly recognisable squares facilitating counted cross-stitch works. The AIDA fabric was invented by ZWEIGART® in the year 1907 resulting in over 100 years of experience in the production of this original, always Made in Germany!
Linen fabrics
A TOUCH OF LUXURY
Linen is known for its luxurious touch and fine look! The natural flax-fibre with its smooth surface and cool touch made it famous worldwide. With a great choice of counts ranging from 20 to 56 ct. we offer an enormous selection of premium linen fabrics - from coarse to almost transparent, in various colors, prints or the classic linen look.
Our linen evenweave fabrics are known for premium quality due to the use of the best linen fibres available on the market. Our assortment includes both pure linen fabrics and linen blended fabrics.
Evenweave fabrics
IMMACULATE PERFECTION
In order to make sure every embroidery project ends with a perfect result, one characteristic of our evenweave fabrics is most important: an absolutely evenly and squarely woven quality fabric. We offer a range of counts from 20 - 40 ct. mostly in cotton blend fabrics with a great selection of colors.
In addition to high-grade linen fabrics, ZWEIGART® evenweaves are also available in easy-care cotton and blended fabrics. The combination of high-quality cotton and modal yarns make our evenweave range a special highlight.
They are woven exactly on the square in plain weave, so their warp and weft thread count are exactly the same. They are well-suitable for any counted embroidery. Our evenweave fabrics furthermore also have a firm finish, which makes it much easier to embroider without a frame.
Our well-known Easy Count Grid fabric includes a counting help (10 x 10 grid) which is woven in the fabric and disappears after washing.
Pre-cut fabrics
A SMALL PIECE WITH A BIG EFFECT
Practically packed, ZWEIGART® precuts enable a wide selection of our most popular evenweaves, linens and AIDAs to be presented in a small sales space. The individual product contains a precut fabric piece and a free chart on the inside of the inlay. They are ideal for retail stores as well as online sales.
Punch Needle
With a punch needle, one works on the top side of a fabric, while loops are being created on the reverse side. The stitched image on the top side is flat and much clearer as well as more detailed, while the loops on the reverse side create a 3-dimensional look.
Our articles 3528 Monk’s Cloth (7 ct.), 3517 Monk’s Cloth Fine (13 ct.) and 1198 Floba (18 ct.) are the ideal base fabrics for achieving perfect results in punch needle works with wool yarns. Several other fabrics from our product range can also excellently be used for this technique, even for finer punch needle works.
If the background of the punched motif is to remain partly free, our evenweave articles 3609 - 32ct. Belfast Linen, 3984 – 32ct. Murano and 3835 – 25ct. Lugana offer a lovely choice of colors and are well suitable. Special background effects can be created with our printed fabrics, such as Petit Point, Sparkle, Vintage, Splash and Leaves or with our metallic threaded fabrics, such as our colors opal, gold and silver
Punch needle is a versatile yet simple embroidery technique which can be used for creating unique designs on our specialised fabrics. The punch needle is a hollow decorative stitching needle with which the thread is "punched" onto the fabric from the top. The technique ranges from thick punch needle with wool yarns to very fine punch works with embroidery threads. We offer specially woven Monks Cloth fabrics which are best suitable to realize high quality punch needle works!
