Iron Heart in the Press or on other Sites

[Finn666]

^ i´d almost guess pretty similar to 555 cut!?

[natehate]

those bad boy available threw you g or pronto only?

[Giles]

They are a slim slim cut.  Yes very 555ish, but not the same.  Only available from Pronto….

[Giles]

@Giles:

I have talked about an 18oz LHT, I suspect it is the same stuff.  I will talk to H and confirm one way or another.

Just to confirm the new denim is an 18.5oz LHT.  Where ever I have said 18, I meant 18.5.  I am typing this whilst sitting on the bottom step.

Oh, and did I mention the 21oz Left Hand Twill we are experimenting with.

Expect to see 666 and 634 cuts out of one or both of these at some point.

[Chris]

18.5 LHT is sanforized, correct?

And the 634 in these makes me happy.

[Giles]

@Chris:

18.5 LHT is sanforized, correct?

Yep

[MikeC]

Experiment with some loomstate, 21oz LHT….

[Giles]

Expect no new loomstate in the near future….

[JCar2666]

A talk with the Boss

http://halloffade.com/travel-blog-11-iron-heart-boss-haraki-the-iron-legend-of-the-far-east/

[FurattoHeddo]

So IH no longer uses the Zimbabwe cotton, but US cotton, guess that's a pretty interesting bit of news(?) …

[llvlaglne]

Curious to when he made the switch

Sent from my iPhone

[Giles]

@FurattoHeddo:

So IH no longer uses the Zimbabwe cotton, but US cotton, guess that's a pretty interesting bit of news(?) …

Yes, I have to update the website….

[JCar2666]

Not that I care what H uses but I was surprised to read that he made the switch too.  Won't that change the softness of Iron Hearts denim quite a bit?  Or has it already happened and I haven't even noticed in my jeans?

[Giles]

It has happened and no one noticed, me included.  He specifies a quality and that's what he gets.

[Chris]

You can get high quality long staple cotton from lots of places.  The fact that Haraki could switch it and no one, including Giles, had the slightest idea of the change shows that the cotton's country of origin is overrated.

[Nerkg]

Shouldn't this lower the price of the jeans?

[Giles]

Why? Haraki specifies what he needs, that is what he buys, it's not like he's buying inferior stuff from the US…..

[Nerkg]

I understand what your saying, and not trying to be a jerk, just wondering, cause he says specifically , HK:" When I started, Zimbabwe cotton was very famous in Japan. The quality was also very good, so I chose it. It has a long staple so it can be twisted tightly and it makes for good soft denim. If I wanted to make thick denim it doesn’t really matter if the cotton has a long staple to be frank."

I take that as he doesn't need the softest cotton anymore..

[Giles]

He is using American cotton of the same quality as he found in the Zimbabwean cotton.

[Omega Man]

Not a cotton expert, will the origins of cotton make them fade/wear differently? 
I hope I am not being way off here (and it won't have an impact on my interest in IH), but I would have much preferred to hear it first, more like a PR issue I'd say.