New clothes available in the web shop October 1st. We only made a small handful of these things, as the construction process takes a long time, and the cloth is pretty expensive.

All the cloth used for this upcoming bunch of clothes was woven by Bingo-Fushiori outside of Fukuyama City, Japan on 1950s shuttle looms. There aren’t many mills weaving cloth on a small-scale and sustainable, but commercially viable way in 2021. Bingo-Fushiori has been doing it for over a hundred years, and they’re still doing it.

Making clothes in tiny batches allows us to use cool cloth like this (cloth is a major hurdle in sustainability and decentralized clothing production, and I want to write more about that in the future.

AWA SEERSUCKER SHIRT

This shirt is made from lightweight cotton seersucker. It has a different feel from the traditional cotton seersuckers we’ve worked with in the past— this one is really soft and springy. The buttons are natural mother of pearl. The cut is full, and based on a favorite vintage shirt we picked up at The Getup Vintage in Montpelier a long time ago. The buttonholes, sleevehead seam allowance, and label window are stitched by hand. The label is hand painted. The hang tag is block-printed on bark from a storm-felled birch tree behind our house.

FUSHI MARBLED CHORE COAT

This cotton is light and airy with varying fiber thicknesses in the warp (it’s real slubby). Naturally dyed with indigo and persimmon juice. It’s cool, crisp, and heavily textured. The buttons are vintage Italian corozo.

The cut is based on our favorite ‘60s military jacket— full and boxy. It’s made to be worn over anything from a t-shirt to a heavy sweater, and the weight/weave will make it comfortable indoors year round. The tightness of the sleeve closure can be adjusted. The buttonholes and label window are stitched by hand. The label is resist-dyed with fermented persimmon tannin. The hang tag is block-printed on bark from a storm-felled birch tree behind our house

KASURI TOTE

Cotton kasuri cloth naturally dyed with indigo. That’s not patched together— it’s woven that way. This bag can hold a few records, some stuff from the farmers market, a little dog. It has an interior pocket large enough for a big phone, a handful of drugs, or a field guide for identifying native trees. The pocket can be secured shut with the hand carved birch toggle and hand stitched buttonhole. There’s a solid brass trigger snap to hold keys.