Random questions to which you seek an answer

[Max Power]

Will there be a release schedule for the spring / summer stuff? Or does it already exist and I didn't find it?

[Giles]

There will be.  We need to get updated dates from Japan

[TSG]

Hi Giles, this is TSG in Japan. Where are you based? In Gosport, Japan, the US or …..where are you.

[Giles]

Our products are made in Japan, we run the International operations from Gosport in the UK and have a US based website.

https://www.ironheart.co.uk/content/about-iron-heart

[TSG]

So Giles, you are in Gosport, with Adam. Love that ferry!

[Giles]

Have been for 14 years…..

[Steffen]

…with Adams and other charming people 

[TSG]

Yes, a lot of Adams over there! You are all lucky guys (and girls?) working with such great products. It amazes me that Gosport is the home of IH UK, I lived in Alverstoke for many years, and we never had anything like IH in Gosport before. A real backwater! Times change. Keep up the good work.

[Giles]

It still is a backwater, that's why we like it…..

You needed one of these:

https://www.ironheart.co.uk/extinct/iht-3004.html

or

https://www.ironheart.co.uk/extinct/ih-gt.html

[AdamJ]

@TSG:

Yes, a lot of Adams over there! You are all lucky guys (and girls?) working with such great products. It amazes me that Gosport is the home of IH UK, I lived in Alverstoke for many years, and we never had anything like IH in Gosport before. A real backwater! Times change. Keep up the good work.

I have lived in Alverstoke for 24 years so you can only believe my luck when I found IH only 2 minutes down the road!

[TSG]

You are lucky! I live in Japan now…. a few thousand miles away. But the online shop is terrific.

[TSG]

Wow Giles, so Gosport is now the coolest backwater in the UK. Love those T-shirts, pity they are extinct!

[Giles]

The other day Rachel from Good Art sent an email to a potential customer (which she cc'd to us) saying. "We have retailers in London, Paris, Gosport and Vienna"

PRICELESS

[neph93]

@Giles:

«We have retailers in London, Paris, Gosport and Vienna"

That, or some IH tailored version, needs to be on a t-shirt/sticker.

[TSG]

I am a fan of Tintin, have been since I was a kid. I live near a small town in Japan called Maebashi. There are only three Tintin shops in Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto and …....Maebashi. Kind of similar. I was shocked to find that shop when I arrived here twenty years ago!

[mclaincausey]

I've heard a lot about RHT versus LHT over the years, but I've never understood: why is the warp typically under more tension in LHT than RHT? Why wouldn't it simply be a reversal of the twilling with no discernible difference other than the direction of the twill?

[gaseousclay]

And speaking of twills, has IH ever done a broken twill denim?

[mclaincausey]

That one I can answer in the negative.

[Giles]

@mclaincausey:

I've heard a lot about RHT versus LHT over the years, but I've never understood: why is the warp typically under more tension in LHT than RHT? Why wouldn't it simply be a reversal of the twilling with no discernible difference other than the direction of the twill?

Because in LHT, the process of weaving tightens the spun yarn as it weaves, in a RHT the process of weaving loosens the tension in the spun yarn - typically the warp and the weft yarns are spun (twisted) in the same direction.  Does that make sense?  I can provide more data when I'm not in bed and have the relevant books to hand….

[Giles]

@Max:

Will there be a release schedule for the spring / summer stuff? Or does it already exist and I didn't find it?

It's now here @Max Power

https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12603.msg595805#msg595805