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    Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Collection Preview - Now Live

    Alex and Giles do (what was supposed to be) a brief trip to Osaka and Kojima

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    • AlexA
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      • gaseousclayG
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        Great pics. Love the food shots [emoji496]

        Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

        WTB:
        IHSH-129 size L (blue)
        IHSH-19

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        • Signal11S
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          Those factory shots are great! Thanks.

          Having no destination, I’m never lost.

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          • bryaneidins70B
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            Love these pics and a great Father and Son photo.

            'Fail we may…Sail we must'

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            • steelworkerS
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              @bryaneidins70:

              Love these pics and a great Father and Son photo.

              They must get along well, they're Brits and damn near smiling!  😉 At the same time!

              Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
              Well, I have others.

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              • GilesG
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                I think someone had just said "you know what, that Steelworker aint so bad after all"  🙂 🙂 🙂

                "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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                • GilesG
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                  It is a common misperception that jeans are starched post construction.  The denim warp is made stiff and slippery with the application of a sizing agent (typically starch) before the weaving process.  This gives the warp less friction, so the weaving process is more efficient and warp breakages (which cost a load in loom down-time) are reduced…

                  Warps being beamed

                  Beams of warp entering the sizing machine

                  A warm bubbly bath of sizing agent

                  "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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                  • steelworkerS
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                    @Signal11:

                    Those factory shots are great! Thanks.

                    What he said.

                    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                    Well, I have others.

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                    • GilesG
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                      Obviously before the warps get sized, they need to be prepared and dyed…

                      Beams of warp in position.  Each yarn in a beam is 2,000M long and there are dozens and dozens of warps on each beam

                      "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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                      • theshigsterT
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                        Great photo tour of the process… Love it ! Domo... Thanks !
                        This reminds me of having been in Billund for an Inside Tour of the LEGO manufacturing plant...

                        PS: Your ohashi chops seem to be up...  😉

                        'Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem !'

                        https://www.instagram.com/theshigster/

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                        • DionD
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                          I love these behind the scenes images. This is where the magic happens.

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                            Is it possible to travel Japan without speaking a bit Japanese ?

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                            • dave28D
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                              @Steffen:

                              Is it possible to travel Japan without speaking a bit Japanese ?

                              Highly advisable to learn the basics and have a translator device.
                              See the Top Gear episode where the lads are in Japan.

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                                @Steffen:

                                Is it possible to travel Japan without speaking a bit Japanese ?

                                Very much so. i don't speak a word and have been 7x.

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                                • organisysO
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                                  Awesome thread, thanks.

                                  Pride of Japan :-)

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                                    Really fantastic,loving the little videos.

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                                    • DionD
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                                      I though the third video was showing the sanforization process first.

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                                        Thanks Giles to share the making of the denim. Amazing !!

                                        Love those white bulbs of yarn

                                        Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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                                        • RoxRocks86R
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                                          Thanks for sharing! Really cool to see a glimpse of the “beginnings” of the great things to come.

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                                          • Matty123M
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                                            @Giles you’re looking fit. ::insert jokes here::

                                            Maybe so. Maybe not

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