IH-888-NT - 21/23oz indigo Selvedge DWC Jeans
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@goosehd : OK cool, just trying to figure out if the 634S-RAW is the same as 888-NT which are both different than the most recent iteration of UHRS. I was just talking to Adam W., discussing the subtle differences between the separate iterations of this denim.
So the NT is from the original batch of UHR? Have there been two versions or three of UHR do we know?
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nnn-NT, nnn-RAW, nnn-SR and nnn-UHR are all the same denim.
Well, by the same I mean; the same warp and weft, the same mill, the same husband and wife running the same loom.
If you can perceive differences between the runs (of which there have been approx 10), then that will be down to a subset of; different atmospheric conditions, the state of the loom, whether the husband or wife have a hangover (or if they are drunk), or if they were watching onlyfans on their phones when they were supposed to be weaving (and a load of other variables).....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles said in IH-888-NT - 21/23oz indigo Selvedge DWC Jeans:
the same husband and wife running the same loom.
@Giles said in IH-888-NT - 21/23oz indigo Selvedge DWC Jeans:
Similar - same yarns, different loom….
So what the heck is the correct answer G?
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I have been thinking. Haraki accidentally created the 21/23 when he was experimenting with a new 21oz denim. We make the 21oz in Kuroki, so it is reasonably logical that he experimented there. He first released the 21/23 as SR, and it was intended to be just a single run because it was a "mistake". I liked the denim so much I asked him to continue with it, at that point he may have moved it (if it was not already there) to the husband and wife house factory, because he liked what they did so much. What I do know for sure is that I went to the house factory for the first time in 2013 (see here), and they were making UHR there then, and continued to do so until the wife died earlier this year.
