Our Company

Company History

Established in 1953 by Paul Stiegler, Simplex Knitting Company began knitting traditional Simplex fabrics.

The primary application for such fabrics at this time was linings for ladies’ gloves. The construction of Simplex fabric with its natural give provided a good fit to the hand.

Simplex Knitting Company Ltd introduced a new market for shoe linings in the 1960’s, before transitioning into lingerie and intimate apparel fabrics circa. 1980.

The company was honoured to supply Simplex fabric to make gloves for Her Majesty the Queen.

As well as the traditional Simplex fabics which lent the company its name, we now offer an extensive range of 28 - 40 gauge warp knit fabrics including elastic tricots, powernets, tulles, satins and meshes.

About Us

The finest quality warp knitted fabrics can be found at Simplex Knitting. Our team ensure all fabric meets our accredited standards.

Simplex Knitting is still a family owned business and prides itself on its staff retention – some of our staff have worked for the company for over 40 years. This allows us to develop our expertise and continually develop our fabrics.

All fabric is knitted and custom dyed to order.

We work with market leaders worldwide offering a wide range of fabrics from traditional Simplex to elastic tricots, powernets, tulles, satins and meshes.

Why choose Simplex?

100% UK Manufacturing
Fully vertical with in house knitting, dyeing & finishing
Our own in house labratory
Highly trained, experienced and friendly team
All fabrics accredited to Oeko-tex standards
Versatile fabric offerings to suit a wide range of applications from lingerie to PPE, industrial to medical
Flexible MOQs from as low as 50m for stock shades and 200m for bespoke shades
Stock service for our best selling references in standard colours
All fabric is custom dyed to order
Digital Sublimation printing using our own exclusive prints or customer designs on our own fabrics or customer supplied