Eye candy

Just thought I'd show you all some wonderful pictures from one of our stops in the Nevada desert. Enjoy.

The pictures represents an old mining site from the middle of the 19th century. The site was put to use again sometime during the 1930's or 40's as the mill was built. It's so awesome to see all these things that were left behind from two different epochs of time - the houses, or cottages more precisely, from the 19th century piled together with all the machines from the 30's. Neat contrasts, indeed.

All I have to say is: History, whiskey and denim - what more can you possibly need?

//Hampus

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The co-operation

Here's some pictures of the finished factory products that we've made for Pace. Too bad my brother managed to take 40 photographs without any focus at all... Anyway, we've chosen to tailor two garments that Joakim's and Klas's grandfathers very well could've been wearing in the old gold hunt of their youth. Also, we thought of how everything would look like if Pace had existed back in the days, and if they had, the workers probably would've looked something like this.

The seams are made in and old fashion way called "single stitch", where the seam allowance is folded and tailored in a special way. It's kind of hard to describe in text, but you can clearly see what I'm talking about if you look three pictures upwards from here. The result is two seams on the outside, but only one with one visible on the inside.

These are the first factory copies we've seen and it all feels great. It's also fun to see how carefully and precisely they've observed our test pieces to make the copies as alike as possible. I thought I'd upload some picture of the test copies we tailored in our studio, for your own eyes to compare.

//Hampus

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Objective clear

The trousers are finally ready! Now they only have to be packed so that we can bring them to Stockholm. At twelve o' clock this Saturday (the 20th), the trousers will be available at the Sivletto store - and in the web shop for those not in the neighborhood. Me and my brother will be there all day for anyone who wishes to come by and have a nice denim chat!

The sizes made are 28-34, 30-34, 32-34 (3 pieces), 34-34 (2 pieces), 36-34 (2 pieces). 10 pieces altogether, and that's it for this edition. The final price will be 2 500 Swedish crowns.

//Hampus

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Denim bolt

The other day we received a package which contents probably are among the best things we've ever bought off of Ebay, and we're tremendously pleased with it. It's a fair roll of denim from Hinsdale, Ohio. The package left Levi's head office at Valencia Street in San Fransisco sometime in the sixties and was intended for an Anne Anabelle, who were a fashion editor at Cleveland Pain Dealer, Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Approximately 50 years later, the package is on our workbench in Eskilstuna - still unpacked! What a travel this fabric has endured.

Here's a few pictures of the old way-bills, and how everything was packed.

Truly wonderful selvage. The fabric measures 47 inch from selvage to selvage. We haven't been able to roll out the whole length to see all the sweet denim we overcame. To do that, we have to to outside. Therefore, we have to wait for the snow to melt.

After we removed the protecting paper we discovered that the roll had been stored somewhere where the sun had reached it. Everywhere, except where the tape had been, there was whitened spots. The sun had even managed to cut through a few layers of the fabric. I really adore all the character and history in the denim, and that special scent that appears when denim has been stored for a long time.

Here's a close-up on the dark color and area, which was really nice and had the right amount of roughness. Even if there isn't a certain way to tell, this piece is likely of old cone denim quality.

Now we only have to decide what to make of it!

//Hampus

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