Japan Trip - November 2010

gbougard

Hello: it would be nice if buyers of this awesome beauty could have the choice of snap: black (or dark grey depending what the exact color of the hide is) metal, copper as shown on the photo, pearl (white or black like the IHS27 and 32) and silver. The price paid for it (which I suspect will be higher than a regular denim model!) justifies giving a little more to the buyer, dont it?

And personally, I'd love one bright red, one white and one black snap on one of the sleeves.

Giles: do you think it would be possible to offer such flexibility in the snaps?

Simon

@Giles:

Will is just knocking me up a sample in Horse at the moment. G

Horse !!! thats going to be one mofo of an overshirt! Can't wait to see it though

Giles

I am desperately hoping that the Shinkansen has WiFi tomorrow - I am on it for 4 hours, only way I am going to get stuff done. Just finished 12 hours of meetings - NEEEEEEEEEED food

a.khan12390

get work done

kiya

@Giles:

I am desperately hoping that the Shinkansen has WiFi tomorrow - I am on it for 4 hours, only way I am going to get stuff done. Just finished 12 hours of meetings - NEEEEEEEEEED food

I've never been on a shinkansen with wifi, you're just going to have to join in the beer slamming contest with Daniel and i. See you in 20 minutes.

Giles

So here we are, the first of the IHXB01sbg off the production run, how's about that Beats?

Giles

The sbg demin being woven, Haraki monitors progress of another of his creations:

Giles

More sbg being woven….........

Jpo1932

That's the stuff I love to see G!

Giles

BTW, notice in the above 2 vids, Haraki is still in the deerskin western, I swear to God he has not taken it off since I gave it too him…................

Katsushin

Super cool…
Thanks for the behind the scenes action and sharing so quickly!

Giles

To tell you the truth. I am fucking numb, my brain is more rubbish than normal.

Today, we hit the indigo dyeing plant. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos in there, but it was surreal, we actually saw the warp (indigo thread) for the 21oz selvedge denim being dyed, cool.

Then onto the weaving plant, well, my hearing is still trying to recover, I can't even start to explain the noise of 50-60 shuttle looms from the 1940's going full blast. Saw loads of different denims being woven including the new 21oz Super Black fading to grey (sbg), Haraki was particularly interested in watching that being woven.

Then onto the finishing factory. Quality Control (every square inch of every single piece of denim that is producing in the weaving factory is visually inspected and any problems noted and rectified if possiblle), Singeing, Coating, Skewing and Sanforising.

Giles

General views of the shuttle loom rooms at the weaving factory….........

Beatle

Sweet Jesus - this is better than sex…what an amazing day for you guys...

PS..Dear Haraki, please let Beatle take a look in May ...Domo arigato !!

Beatle

seriously - this is fucking legend. Like wonderland on lsd

Giles

New truck to big for your garage?

No ploblem, how to fix it Okayama styley:

Beatle

lol..still digesting the clips …feel like a need a beer at 9.30 am...

STAN

Mr G,
Super video and photo, thanks for sharing.
more pls..

Seul

@Giles:

BTW, notice in the above 2 vids, Haraki is still in the deerskin western, I swear to God he has not taken it off since I gave it too him…................

DUH!..

Brilliant vids btw!.. Thanks!..

All I can say is WOW!

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Japan Trip - November 2010