The Ohio Knitting Mills apparel brand was created by Steven Tatar in 2006, after he acquired the extensive and remarkable archive of the eponymous knitting mill founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1927. Three generations of the founding family operated the mill as a contract-only supplier to retailers and labels across the country, large and small, churning out thousands of knits styles for men, women, and children. The mill's clothes were sold as affordable fashion to America's middle class that was rapidly expanding during the postwar boom. Today, the Ohio Knitting Mills is once again creating colorful and graphically exciting sportswear, and still operating in Cleveland, O.!