Iron Heart Products - What do you think we should make?
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Ok, I promise this is the last 'new product' interest thread I'll post in a long time…. but in addition to my Brown Wabash interest thread posted today, I wanted to throw out another idea that IH ought to consider making, and that is consider is a brown waxed cotton (and black, too) version of their Cotton Rider Jacket
with leather prices so high and the need for a lighter cafe racer for summer that looks better with age, waxed cotton/canvas truly fits the bill
this request is coming out of frustration I had trying to find one - Belstaff's are too costumey looking and nobody else is doing a pure cafe racer in waxed cotton that I could find in brown
I gave up looking and got a terrific tailor in San Francisco to make me one out of Dark Tan Martexin waxed canvas like this (and I will post a picture when it's done):
http://www.fairfieldtextile.com/fabrics.html
after seeing many, many old and amazing brown waxed cotton jackets at vintage clothing faires, it's about time somebody did one in a simple cafe racer format and IH already has a great version to begin with
imagine this in a great brown waxed canvas:
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Not sure I saws that. Finding info on Wabash is super difficult. There is a bit of info (but not 100% accurate) in Rin Tanaka's Heller's Cafe Part 2.
Yeah. An hour on Google made me aware of that fact
In our case (with the current version of Wabash) we rope dye the warp and weft then weave it. Once woven we bleach the dots onto the face…..
That's good enough really. Just had a couple of people ask me how the dots were made. Thanks!
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have never seen a campaign for an item like the one NorCal_1 is running. great stuff & good luck
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Yep…
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^ actually, with that brown duck cafe racer jacket, you could use Otter Wax to make it a waxed canvas distressed jacket
I distressed a tobacco suede cafe racer jacket using Otter Wax and it came out great, and duck cloth is even better
you can see the guys at Jack Knife Outfitters in San Francisco on their blog using Otter Wax to wax their duck cloth jackets and vests here: http://jackknifeoutfitters.tumblr.com/
tutorials of how to wax cotton items here:
http://www.otterwax.com/tutorials/you can see the Hammarhead /Dunderoon guys suede jacket waxed with Otter Wax here:
and here: http://dunderdonusa.com/men/j77-welders-jacket-brown
