Alex in Japan - November 2022

[Alex]

Thursday was a pretty uneventful day photo wise, we had meetings all day and got an early night before a long day Friday

A few randoms

[Alex]

Friday was pretty epic. We woke up at 0300, left the hotel just before 0400 and headed north east to Niigata. The drive took about 10 hours, with a few pitstops along the way for 'toilet' (read 'Haraki needs a cigarette') breaks.

I tried to get some shots of the landscape along the way. Remind yourself of a couple of things:
1. Landscapes always look much more impressive to the naked eye than they do shot on a phone (or even camera) driving at 80mph on a motorway!
2. I am not a good photographer.

Bearing these in mind, hopefully you get a sense of how spectacular parts of Japan are..

[Alex]

Niigata is where the fabric for our UHFs is made, amongst other things. First stop was the dyeing factory

[Alex]

Then those yarns are woven into fabric at this mill

[Alex]

Finally the fabric is finished and brushed at a third factory

[Alex]

Then Sarina and I left the rest of the crew in Niigata, they are driving back to Okayama today, and we headed for Tokyo

Trains are fast here

Christmas decorations not their forté

Food on the other hand is

[Alex]

I have a load of videos that will be going on my personal IG over the next few hours, and then all these images and videos will be turned into some Iron Heart stories that will go into the story highlights on the main IG page for posterity as with all recent trips.

Once we move to the new forum, hopefully sharing quick clips will be a little easier on this platform too.

[Daniel San]

Awesome pictures Alex !
Al those fantastic machines, so cool !

[Aetas]

Impressive Images @Alex

[Nik]

Landscapes beautiful and factories looking very cool. Do they have enough staff in those factories? How long does it take for finished fabric to come out of the third factory from when the dyeing begins at the first one?

[hajduk]

Factory pics are awesome! Fascinating!

Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

[tody]

I'd love to see and learn more of the machinery and production process. That is really fascinating.
I'm sure I can look it all up and find enough youtube Videos, but wouldn't it be cool to have a video documentary covering all the steps from design to finished product?

[Alex]

@tody:

a video documentary

Watch this space….

[ROman]

Great overall pics of your journey Alex, and details. Thanks..

[the246guy]

@Alex Great pictures and a story around it. By the way, did you reveal the SS 22/23 UHF releases from what we can see from the pictures of the UHF factory?

[Giles]

There may or may not have been some future UHF releases in the images, but on the basis that it was Ultra Heavy Flannel and no one else does Ultra Heavy Flannel and those are patterns you have not seen before…........Well, you can work out the rest,.,.....

[weftyarn]

@Alex:

Uh oh…

[neph93]

Fantastic work @Alex Great of you to take time to dokument this stuff for the forum.

The possibility for video on the new forum platform is also really exciting. Game changing even.

Also, have your partner’s photo skills started to rub off? [emoji38]

[Daniel San]

That is fuckin.. awesome