Brandon Abell

Jebus. . . 500m?

http://www.patternreview.com has tons of machine reviews and a helpful forum. Try there.

I believe CYC in British Columbia produces their fabrics in-house and so they're probably the only source and it's probably difficult to get unless you order a full bolt.

Hopefully I can find contact info for them. . . Google comes up empty again! :-(

I don't imagine I'll have much trouble finding others to split a bolt or roll. It's a cool looking fabric.

B.

edit: Okay their full name is CYC Design Corporation. They have a "coming soon" on their website. I'll email them and see what I can find.

Does anybody know of a source for that "tiger fleece" fabric (the kind with the crosshatching) that is used on the Spruce hoodies? My Google-fu has failed me.

Thanks.

New to me -- this short video on the jeans construction process:

http://www.vidly.net/video-how-its-made-jeans.html

At least mildly interesting.

B.

i have a couple pairs of jeans that need to be tailored.

the cuffs/bottom opening have to be made smaller in circumference and

the waist has to be altered(made smaller, from a 36 to a 32).

should i just go to any dry cleaner and have them do it for me ?

PROS and CONS?

the jeans are very expensive evisu jeans.

thanks in advance.

Unless they have sentimental value, sell them and buy others. A great many of the proportions in pants are based on the waist/hip size and 4" is not a minor adjustment.

most all fabric on bolts has selfedge.... the term selfedge in relation to jeans just means that all portions of the jeans are made with the selfedge part. so the denim for those jeans is made on a narrow loom so that that is possible.

This.

A selvedge is just the part on the right and left sides of the length of fabric that was held on either side of the loom as the shuttle went back and forth laying down threads. It is just a "self edge" that doesn't require any additional seam finishing (rolled edge, bound edge, serged edge, etc.) to keep from unraveling.

Asking for selvedge denim at a mass-market fabric store will just get you blank stares because all woven fabric should have exactly two selvedges on each end of the roll or bolt (or both will be on one end if the fabric is folded before being put on the bolt). The "selvedge" fabric in relation to jeans is typically much narrower than the standard fabric bolt lengths because in order to use those selvedge ends in the garment construction would result in a great deal of waste in the middle of the fabric otherwise.

Also, I don't think anybody spells "selvedge" the same. Don't worry about it. :-)

Hey Ande,

Any change in the rise of the Grifters from V2?

Thanks.

B.

I'm still quite happy with the pair I got from Andy few months back. Nice *dark* denim with black stitching. To be honest, he kinda inspired me to take the sewing class I'm in now and learn how to do this stuff. An additional perk: I'm the only guy in there. :-)