Loopwheel Crewneck Sweatshirt - Navy fw19 Kakishibu has also been called

Kakishibu has also been called “Taiyo-zome (sun-dye)” due to the photosensitivity of the dye - areas exposed to light will grow darker and richer in tone

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Some of the very best sweatshirts in the world are made with loopwheeled fabric from Wakayama

created with a special boucle yarn that has been given a unique shrinking finish

the collective responsible for driving the vintage and selvedge denim boom of the 1990s

Loopwheel Crewneck Sweatshirt - Navy fw19 Kakishibu has also been calledSome of the very best sweatshirts in the world are made with loopwheeled fabric from Wakayama, Japan. 400 loopwheel knitting machines remain in Japan, with about 200 running at any time. Each machine can only produce about 12 meters a day roughly 8 sweatshirts worth. These machines were the standard from the 1920's until the 1960s when higher speed (and higher tension) knitting took over for the sake of efficiency at the cost of softness and comfort.