Studio D'artisan 30th Anniversary - huge pics

[ah_long]

While I was doing some purchase @ the Studio D'artisan store in Tokyo, the staff was very nice to give me a book that has many information regarding the brand and denim in general.

I have decide to scan it and put it up to share with you guys. The reason I didn't put this in the SDA thread is because there's some information in the book in regards to denim in general that could be interesting to many denim addicts (including aging sample, weaving and dying process... etc.)

There is around 70 pages in total, so bear with me, I would not be able to have it up all @ once. Be patient.

( location of the entire album for higher res.. http://gallery.me.com/longlong#100087)

added some captions with my basic Jap knowledge

Long

Dying Process

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Weaving the Denim

The Cutting Process

Putting it all together

[ah_long]

Sanding

Washing

how it all began

[ah_long]

***now The Really Exciting Stuff***

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Regular Series

Repro

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[salaami]

i wish more people would do things like this...

[slowdownarthur]

yeah, true salaami, great idea,

thanks ah_long...

[bunga]

thanks long for being kind enough and taking the time and effort to share this with us. by the way, anyone seen the SDA 30th anniversary Lee/Levis hybrid and WW2 jeans?

here's the links:-

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fitem.rakuten.co.jp%2Fgpanya%2F10000539%2F - WW2 - 15oz

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fitem.rakuten.co.jp%2Fgpanya%2F10000541%2F - Lee/Levis hybrid - 23 oz

[ah_long]

it's my pleasure to share it..

I'll see if I have time to scan some more pages tonight.. if not, I'll get some up tomorrow..

[ah_long]

updated...

[LC_Miey]

thanks for posting up the pages man..good to see some behind-the-scene actions

[dralfonzo]

get in looks amazing cant wait to see the rest of the pics

[jackandcoke]

damn i want these now

[ah_long]

Updated...

[calvinouch]

So much detail goes into these jeans. amazing pics

[ah_long]

updated scans #41~50 (post #6)

content: natural indigo vs pure indigo fading sample, standard collection, repro edition

[RRLselvageDenim]

Thanks for sharing ah_long

[chantheman]

wow thanks for the scans. just found this thread

[ah_long]

all the updates are done..

I really hope you guys enjoyed the scans..

[dandandan]

wow excellent job scanning it for us

now someone has to translate it...

[ah_long]

i can only understand some of the headings.. but the rest of the stuff is pretty self explanatory.. some of it especially the fading samples have english on it....

[dandandan]

yea, but it would be nice to know what the dyeing process and the manufacturing pages were saying.

[ah_long]

oh... those? it would be hard.. lol.. but it talks about the type of indigo they use and how the weaving process stayed to the traditions...

[kit714]

+ rep ah long, thank you

[bg12nd]

why I couldn't find that "2" series of SDA in this thread? I mean those 201, 202, 203 series...

[frideswide]

Nice photo of a Toyoda loom in action. Thanks for scanning.

Champion Pig Boys forever!

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[ah_long]

if I haven't remembered it wrong, the 2 series was a limited production run as a budget line... I remembered asking about them in T5 in HK and SDA store in Tokyo, the denim as I recall is very loosely woven and not as nice as the 1 series denim

[bg12nd]

^^

owh ic, I got the 203 series, even it is budget line, at least it's a limited run, LOL! thanks ah_long!

anyway, SDA current budget line is the 601 correct? (based on their price I saw in Rakuten)