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I have a thing for 'selvedges'! Here's my latest project ... an insulated Lunch Bag. It's 5" wide and about 10" square with a velcro closure. I still have so many selvedges left.
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For Heather. A bag of selvedges. Almost as many without text as with. I went ahead and cut the selvedges off of the rest of my fabrics, so now the bag is stuffed.
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working in a factory has you thinking so much about the insane chain of labor & transport that goes into making literally anything
#like first you realize that You are making & doing things that you previously had thought - if you'd thought abt it at all - were automated#& you become incredibly aware of how all the materials you're working with came from somewhere - these plastic clips are from france; this#fabric is from india etc. and that there are people in factories there making those things and that they are also probably getting their#materials from somewhere#one of the little things that makes me think about this the most is we have these 50m rolls of cotton banding we see onto canvas & nets#and in theory it should be all one piece but sometimes it's actually two pieces which you discover when you get far enough in the roll and#find that there's a join where it's been stitched together by hand (!). which is a little annoying bc we can't use that bit so you have#to cut that but out & stitch it together again on the machine which interrupts what you were sewing before & slows you down But it's so#striking to me bc like it's really easy to look at this banding & it's so exactly the same & obviously machine made it's Really easy to#forget that there are people there running these machines. who notice there's a break & have to stop what they're doing & get a needle &#thread and stitch it together. by hand! like someone somewhere has handled exactly where I'm touching it & i don't even know where in the#world they are!#the other place this happens is often on the selvedge edge of the fabric there's writing in pencil i don't know ye meaning of but evidently#was important to the process somewhere & someone wrote that out#idk like it's really easy to watch those videos of really specific machines in factories & convince yourself that everything is automated#but the truth is the vast majority of stuff is not & is made by people doing that. & even when it is there are people running those machine#<- and i'm not saying this in a soppy way tbc. this whole system is a nightmare of exploitation & to some degree I'm just continually amaze#by how insane this whole process is & also how completely un-transparent it is unless you are made to think abt it#another thing is noticeable when you look at our orders that most of what we sell isn't to customers it's to shops who then sell to custome#which then makes you think like. those plastic clips from france are they actually made in france or are we just buying them from france?#are they actually made by underpaid people in a country the name of which is completely lost to the chain of production at this point#anyways none of this is new it's just when you are working in a factory using this stuff you start wondering like.#what's the factory like that the person who stitched this banding together like. what's their day like there#wish we could talk abt how fucked up this all is - for them especially probably - together#thoughts
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Selvedge
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Definitely one of my favorite jeans that I got from a buddy. 🤩
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Knock before you enter.
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My new loom! We picked it up last week and it turned out to be a 60cm (!!) Ashford 4 shaft table loom. The box was a bit grotty, but the loom is perfect. I'm a bit bemused, because it kind of renders the Katie redundant, but if I hadn't bought the Katie the convo that led to getting the 4 shaft never would have happened.
Life's weird. Here's some tea towels:
#fibre arts#weaving#looms#I haven't thought of a name yet#still getting used to how easy it is to get draw in with the floating selvedge
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#companion denim#denimheadru#denim#selvedge#selvage#jeans#denimhead#faded jeans#japanese denim#faded denim
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Levi's Japan limited edition "Katakana" jeans, a reissue of the 1937 Levi's 501 jeans where all of the text is written in Japanese katakana script.
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#levis#vintage levis#Levi’s 501#selvedge#mensfashion#style#vintagestyle#preppy#ivystyle#French ivy#vintage#1960s
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Kent Wang. Spier and Mackay. Japan Blue Jeans vía Okayama Denim. Tricker's.
#menswear#mnswr#styleforum#mensfashion#spier and mackay#spier & mackay#trickers boots#tricker's#okayama denim#Japan Blue Jeans#selvedge#kent wang
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Peppino Peppino Denim
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I love my Imogene + Willie jeans, especially the denim, which wears beautifully. The pocket bags, however, have a bad habit of disintegrating on me. This is an in-progress series of images patching a hole in the pocket bag with a square cut from the cuff of an old dress shirt. One day I'll be a neat tailor, but in the meantime I'll be a fun sewer.
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Levi’s
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BMW R75/5 ‘71
Niedersachsen / Germany
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Oktober 25, 2024
#amsterdam#selvedge#textile magazine#wrap#inside#print#finnish hop#design#1943#Virginia Lee Burton Demetrìos#The Folly Cove Printers#Cape May#Massachusetts
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