Japan Trip - November 2010

[Katsushin]

Wild…Looks like someone's house.

[Giles]

This is the same type of machine as the union Special above, but it is "modern" and wimpy, so will not do heavy denim,  maxing out at about 15oz.  I love the way the folders work on these things:

[Giles]

The Kojima version of the Turin Shroud, God appeareth out of the denim…...

[Giles]

The process of fucking up putting creases into a pair of (def not Iron Heart) jeans:

[Giles]

Want your jeans to look stained and splattered (sorry Splattered), then over to the hi tech finishing lab…...

[Giles]

About 15 secs before I took this vid, Daniel had applied a little to much pressure with his chop sticks to half a boiled egg.  The result was spectacularly messy.  Here he is showing off that he can in fact use a pair of chop sticks whilst I desperately hope for a repeat performance,  I was disappointed…....

[Giles]

Kiya with a small roll of weft and warp.  We never actually had explained to us in a way that we understood why this is done.  In the weaving process the weft comes from one roll or cotton and the warp from another, so why have a roll of the 2 threads together remains a mystery…....

[Giles]

Ever wondered how denim is sanforised?  Simple, stick between bloody great rollers and apply loads of pressure:

[Giles]

Kiya, I know that jacket was really cheap, but c'mon…...............

[Seul]

Oh man haha… That sanforising machine looks like a BEAST!..

[ALEX1976]

@Giles:

The process of fucking up putting creases into a pair of (def not Iron Heart) jeans:

tzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…...I would say PRPS?

[Giles]

That factory does a load of PRPS and Edwin….

[ronaldlsh]

@Giles:

The process of fucking up putting creases into a pair of (def not Iron Heart) jeans:

Im curious, what does the machine do to the jeans?

[Beatle]

something really really bad…sandblasting maybe ?

[Giles]

They said that it just creases the jeans, but given the amount of sand on the floor, I suspect a little more than that was happening to them.  It was difficult to tell because they get zipped up into that black bag when the process is actually happening….G

[Giles]

Popped into Moto:

http://www.motostyle.jp/leather-silver/moto-top.html

with Kiya and Demitra and the only person to come out with anything was Mrs G:

[Giles]

Too much goodness in the workshops and I start to lose control…...

[Katsushin]

Maybe you just inhaled to much of that spray glue behind you…

[Splattered]

Hahaha i love that pic G!

[Seul]

Hahah you look completely bonkers in that last pic, Giles… In a good way, though!..

Man eff that torture machine... That black bag reminds me of blindfolding people before you execute them... Same thing, I guess...  :-\