Giles and Haraki's UK road trip

[Seul]

Ayumi yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy…

Haraki cracks me up... He's like a kid visiting a huge toy store!.. 

[madmonday]

thanks for taking us along on that crazy road trip & the boss looks like i would look at the works. . . or come to think of it at the aero shop  :D. the aero shop must smell great with all that quality leather around . . .

**that varsiety is the shit & i can understand why Ayumi fell in love with it

[madmonday]

@jimmy:

Too much!  you guys keep carry on like this forget about wholesale you need to start thinking franchise…

you might be on to something

[Giles]

Random vid.  Ayumi loving being on the windy North Sea beach at Alnwick…..

[hasty]

Super pics Giles. The Varsity looks amazing!

[Finn666]

@Giles:

Wednesday. Today is Aero day.

Although it was raining when we left, we took this as a good sign

Deer skin western

Ayumi fell in love with this, but only told me on the way home that she wanted to ask Will how much it was and felt that she couldn't.  Oh well, that's another phone call for me today…(Notice Haraki in the background trying yet another jacket on)...

We gather round Wills desk to discuss tweaks

thanks for those great pics…really loving`em...great trip there as well!

that Deer Skin - oh man...looks awesome!

ayumi in the varsity - i don`t say a word.

you 4 on bottom - love it!

[Giles]

I think Haraki spent too much time with me over the last few days.  I just sent him an update about some Aero stuff.  His reply;

COOL!!!

[Finn666]

hahaha…

but sent him an update? is he back to japan?...

[Giles]

No, I dropped them off in London last night.  They're staying there until Saturday, then we all come to Zurich together.  I go to Spencer Hart with them tomorrow to train the sales staff…..How's that, getting trained by the Boss?

[babyknight]

very nice to get a glimpse of the oil pull western

[Finn666]

Ah ok…i already was a bit confused cuz i knew that they will come to Zürich with you guys!

getting trained by the Boss is dope...had that once with Nudie. but nothing compared to you guys

[Giles]

@babyknight:

very nice to get a glimpse of the oil pull western

BK.  It would be on my back now, but Will had made a standard XL for our sizing discussions yesterday.  He is making me one longer in the arms, I'll have it very soon.  I went with the side pockets option.  Plan is, I beat the living crap out of before I go to Japan in November, Will really wants Haraki to see an aged one, not sure why, as Haraki is totally 100% in love with the oil pull.  In fact, so in love that we will be making a biker type fanny pack in it too (at Chapman), oh and a Type III with pockets…...

[Giles]

Next to Aero in Galashiels is a fabric finishing plant.  Will managed to get Haraki, Ayumi and me a tour of it.  Oh my God, we were in heaven, it was just amazing and super instructional.

I learnt so much.

So do you know what this is?

It's a teasel and comes from here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/1244.shtml

It is used (and believe it or not, there is still not a man made equivalent) to tease up the fibres of wool.  Here is the teasing machine

And this is a bolt of Mohair coming out of the teaser

[madmonday]

that mohair is beautiful.

[Giles]

We saw some super heavy woollen plaids.  Haraki is scheming a super heavy wool western, Galashiels edition….....

[madmonday]

i can't believe that I was able to resist any sexual or juvenile comments in regard to the teasel.

i am proud of myself . . . where is seul?

[elclintor]

This thread rules!

Thanks for sharing the journey Giles..

[injunjack]

What the feck is a biker type fanny pack?

[Seul]

@madmonday:

i can't believe that I was able to resist any sexual or juvenile comments in regard to the teasel.

i am proud of myself . . . where is seul?

Hahaha I was reading about teasing those fibres and well my mind went a bit south… But I too refrain from making any comments...

[Giles]

I also learned where the phrase being on tenterhooks comes from

_Being on tenterhooks is a phrase that tends to mean you are anxiously or tensely waiting, or merely anxious. This usage showed up in the 1700s and was well understood at the time. Today, you might use the expression and be fully understood, but people may wonder what tenterhooks actually are, since they are no longer in common use.

The initial use of the modern idiomatic phrase was metaphoric. Being on tenterhooks referred specifically to the process of cloth making employed in Europe as early as the Middle Ages. After cloth was milled and washed, it had to be dried, but this posed a problem. Normally, drying meant the cloth would shrink significantly, which was undesirable. Cloth makers would make less profit if the cloth shrunk, since cloth was sold by lengths. Less cloth after the drying process translates to less money for the cloth maker. To avoid losing profits and valuable cloth, during the drying process cloth was tented to prevent it from shrinking.

Tenting meant the cloth was stretched out or suspended, like a tent, and usually attached to hooks, often simple nails, that were, as you might guess called tenterhooks. Thus cloth on hooks was stretched tight to dry. This sped up the drying process and prevented the cloth from shrinking. The actual tenting process was usually accomplished via small or large devices called tenters, usually wooden frames upon which the cloth would be attached to the hooks_