the truth behind levis shuttle looms

[witts]

so you've all heard the myths and the rumours, I was talking to the boss of the levis concession at work, and she mentioned to me that at their head office in london they were discussing the rumours floating around about the looms bieng sold to evisu or stored by then or whatever.. and the truth is...

the 22 inch shuttle looms were never owned by levis, they were owned by the factory where the denim was produced and the redline selvage which was never patented, so when levis changed to making very little selvage denim the looms were left at the factory. Today all of levis selvage denim is made on these looms and they still use the original looms from back in the day. Levis were amazed and shocked about the rumours, but my friend couldnt remember which factory they were in.

[Shorty Long]

my guess would be in a Cone Mills factory...at least that's who produces the denim for LVC

[tangerine]

super déjà vu

http://superfuture.com/city/supertalk/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=2525&start=8

ask a cassowary

[witts]

ah well.

[sybaritical]

Now that was a proper thread. Good call Tangerine.

[Guest engteach]

BiG has posted an interesting read on shuttle looms:

http://blueingreensoho.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39

[tweeds]

great photothread...i've never seen a shuttle loom explained in such detail

[brandon0809b]

makes sense to me....so what looms has evisu been pumpin $300 jeans out of over the years

[adsurgo]

I don't know who produces the normal evisu stuff but I know kuroki does the veggie jeans and some of the higher end shit.

as far as thelevis deal... cone has only been doing levis since 1904 and wasn't their only supplier until the 80s I belive. they worked with a lot of other looms even while cone was doing their shit and I can almost guarantee that cone didn't start off acting as their primary supplier. but yeah anyway... who the hell was levis pushing their shit with before 1904??