Ijin Material: ORIGINAL IJIN INDIGO BLUE PRINTS UNCOVERED....

Friday, January 30, 2009

ORIGINAL IJIN INDIGO BLUE PRINTS UNCOVERED....

Along with a certain amount of early Spring cleaning at Ijin mansions, this rare document was discovered beneath the piles of denim sample lengths & rusty rivets of the Ijin warehouse in the back woods of the Marche regions of Italy, where all Ijin iregular indigo is made by hand.
This clearly shows the original draft for the very first Ijin item, very probably the J5030 Antifit Backstrap in the revolutionary "foldedege" cut.
Now placed in an air-proof cabinet , this valued denim manuscript & historical design blue print holds a proud place in the Ijin Museum of Irregular Indigo Items.

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Ijin Material is a highly original denim research product presented by independent jeans-maker & Englishman, Philip Goss.

Ijin ''Irregular Indigo Items'' purposely distort the rules of denim know-how,with the clear intention of presenting the classic indigo leg in a contemporary & ingeniously alternative way. Staying ever-faithful to traditional methods of jeans-making but specifically avoiding simply making denim replicas (*check 'My Profile' for explanation), the Ijin product has been sewn by the exact same artisinal production line & craft worked in an Italian workshop, since 2003.The Ijin label is easilly identified by the ''Half-Man'' logo, a reference to the signature method of cutting the denim symmetrically folded & in single cloth pieces. Ijin indigo is highly technical ''stealth-denim'' which appears deceptively historic, especially after ''seasoning'', which is an Ijin term for having worn-in dry denim for at least 9 months before laundering.

Ijin Material was independently launched in 2003 with a ground breaking generic signature indigo model :the Foldedge Backstrap

''Ijin'' is an archaic Japanese word which was once used to describe someone as an 'outsider' ,'black sheep' or 'alien'.
It can also mean 'hero'.