Sashiko actually is a type of fabric weave as well, its most commonly used in Gi's and other martial arts clothing. It's also called rice weave or in the west we know it as Dobby. It's all the same.
Hey ! To answer some of your questions, The leather patch is sheepskin, even in Japan. Momotaro uses occasionally deerskin but not on this product. For the indigo dye, the threads used for the momotaro's sashimi is not dyed as intensely as for their jeans, that's why the colour look lighter. Also every Momotaro's products are one washed, and the dye is inevitably altered in the process, but no bad shrinking surprises ! For the painting, Momotaro uses a screen printing techniques for all printings. So as the fabric as a lot of textures, it's a bit harder to have a perfect clean print on this particular fabric. For the regular 2nd type denim jacket, no pink stitches as the inseam of their jeans, but it's selvedge ! Same pink as for their jeans !
By their nature, natural dyes like indigo are going to fade. Their reactivity is why artificial versions are so common. Add in that the chemistry of indigo is different from that of normal fabric dyes even among the natural colors. Natural dyes are like the best laid plans of mice and men, they don't typically survive the washing machine battlefield! Most natural dyes are made with some form of acid. Even if they don't start that way, the alum used as a mordant is slightly acidic. So is the cream of tartar you add to enhance dye uptake. With indigo though, you need to use strong alkali. It starts as Indoxyl and goes through two more compounds before it becomes the classic indigo. Red and blue are two of the most difficult colors to find in nature. Natural dyes like indigo also don't like to stay when used on any kind of artificial fiber. In order to work best, the fabric or yarn needs to be au natural.
Sashiko is a method of weaving fabric in addition to being a stitching/repair method. So while we think of sashiko as the fun patterns we use to mend our jeans & other clothes, this jacket's material being called sashiko is also correct.
I believe this is actually a dobby weave. I have a momotaro chore coat/deck coat in the same fabric and they call it a dobby weave. I could be wrong but it looks identical. Keep it up man, good stuff.
"""Sashiko""" jackets have such a cool look to them. The plain weave and indigo color mesh real well together. Looking at a piece form Taylor Stitch in that fabric. Great video as always!
This video got me to look into Momotaro. As a new denim head with a pair of Bravestar and one in Freenote I wanted to find a denim jacket. I ended up buying this exact same jacket after watching this very video. Thanks man. Love your work!
Duuuuuude I just found your channel and I happen to fucking love your vids! I recently got myself into the denim world and your videos are not only entertaining but also really helpful, keep it up!
edo period in japan was when japan was isolated for 250 years from 1603 (year queen elizabeth I died) - 1858 when the us stormed in and made japan sign the treaty of ami6ty and commerce on 29th July 1858
You’re criminally underrated/unsubbed. You obviously put in a lot of time/work into these videos. You’re also charismatic and funny. Anyways, enough of the compliments. I have the RGT Sashiko Cruiser, and I got to say, it’s my favorite/comfiest jacket! Been trying to get those fades going! I think you’ll like it and can’t wait to see your video about it!
Really looking forward to a video on the RGT sashiko. And getting mine of course. I’m gonna look pretty silly wearing that thing in July with cargo shorts.
Soaking your clothes in water to either enter (yeah don't do that) or escape a fire is probably one of the surest ways to boil yourself alive. Water soaked fabrics conduct heat WAY faster than dry ones. If you ever find yourself trapped in a fire you would be much better off shielding yourself with something dry and organic like a wool blanket than something wet or synthetic. All that said that was a pretty neat bit of history, video is MUCH LIKE
Hey, your local Japanese guy here (technically half-japanese... and born and raised in Sweden... but still!) and also proud owner of a sashiko jacket, although from Japan Blue! About the sashiko aspect of the jacket: It's in the style of Dogi (martial arts clothing), which used to be made by hand stitching, but because of cost efficiency and technological advancements, nowadays use a special kind of loom to weave the sashiko (also called sashiko-ori or sashi-ori) into the fabric, which creates a more uniform look than the boro style that is more "authentic" sashiko. If you look at the blue "dots" of the jacket, you can see that they are in fact, small stabs. which is what sashiko can be translated as! Tldr: The jacket is in fact a sashiko jacket, but uses a modern loom to create the fabric instead of hand stitching. Hence, it's not because these jackets are often "sashikoed" that they're called sashiko jackets, but because of the sashiko-ori fabric itself.
Glad you mentioned the tale of Momotaro. Japanese mythology is one of my favorites and its FULL of bizzare beasts. Look up the woodcuts of Toriyama Sekian for some examples of how medevil Japanese people viewed their world. From piles of skulls who stare at the general responsible for their deaths to a giant face cackling on the horizon and a cute furry racoon like creature capable of using its testicles to turn into things. No I'm not joking. That is a creature in Japanese mythology that exists. It is not Sashiko. My mother does a more ornamental version of Sashiko called slow stitching. Her work takes patches from our old clothes and cloth stashes that have been sitting around forever, and then embroiders freeform designs, almost like a painter on a canvas. She hangs them on her wall. I have a handbag she made for me by hand with this technique, originally for foraging, but then my favorite store bought handbag that had a lot of pockets finally tore to pieces in the wash. I even tried mending it with a piece of embroidery floss from mom's supplies. But it didn't hold up. Plus the zippers broke, and I had to cut them off or get them snagged on my clothes. I literally wore out my previous handbag to threadbare status. I had other handbags and I could have gone to goodwill to get another one. I don't like those prissy designer looking things that are teeny tiny eeny weeny. I'm a crafter and a forager, my shit has to hold a lot and take a beating. Did you notice? Hold up a picture of your jacket next to that Japanese firefighter coat. The armband matches the waist on the firefighter's coat. ;) In fact the firefighter's coat strongly resembles the modern denim one you were showcasing. I really have to clean my worktable with all the scrap cloth and yarn, all the herbs and flowers and seeds and all the dishes of dried plant material intended for the dye pot. Tonight I'm trying to troubleshoot fallout 76 and combing dogbane fiber for spinning while I listen. But I wanted to share one of the materials I'm experimenting with with you. Dogbane is a wild plant related to both milkweed and oleander. Although the living plant material is very poisonous, just like its relative, (Oleander in fact is so poisonous that in poisoning murder cases the cops could consider it a potential murder weapon), the dogbane stalks die back in the autumn, the poison returns to the root system and the plant leaves behind a tall, dark brown, craggy stalk. These stalks are harvested, crushed, peeled, and what peels away are long ribbons of auburn gold/brown bast fiber attached to a sort of bark. "Bast" in the textile industry is a fiber that comes from the inner bark of a plant. The chips of stalk leftover from dogbane processing go into my garden, where any remaining poison decays. Unlike their heavy metal relatives, poisons from plants and fungi can decompose. So poisonous plants and fungi are safe to compost. Then the more meticulous work begins. If I were to put these ribbons immediately onto my spindle to spin they would snap once spun tight enough. I use pet detangling combs and slicker brushes to seperate the fiber from the outer bark. Sometimes a damp hand helps, the material is very absorbant and softens in response to being dampened just like cotton or linen would. If the bark bits aren't removed it will cause tangles or worse, weak points in your finished yarn. Then I fold the brushed fibers over a hook and either twist them into a strick to be spun later or start spinning them on a homemade drop spindle. I made it from air dry modeling clay, a dowel, hot glue, and a hook. I have a smaller spindle for working more delicate fibers made from fimo, an old knitting needle, and hot glue. Now I'm experimenting with homemade plant dyes and different forms of homemade looms. I'm not a fashionista. I started doing this because of how much I hate fast fashion. Just hating a thing doesn't fix it though. What does is understanding it and making the right choice the easiest one. If you want Iron, I can tweet you the videos that got me interested in fibercrafts and arts.
I'm sorry, no matter how cool their fabrics are, their branding kills any enthusiasm I have for them. Those bands are just too big and obvious. No way I'm paying that much to advertise for them.
Just for your reference: It's mo-mo-tah-ro, not mo-mo-tare-o
Ah THANK YOU!
You beat me to it lol
Yes cause in japan the letter A is an Ooooo sound
@@CocoKoi321 No, it's an ah sound.
@@bobvanderwest9358 that pronunciation made me smile. But how could you know.
Taro is the equivalent of John Doe in English btw.
Sashiko actually is a type of fabric weave as well, its most commonly used in Gi's and other martial arts clothing. It's also called rice weave or in the west we know it as Dobby. It's all the same.
Negative reviews can really kill restaurants. If you've got a good one that restaurants would probably appreciate you putting one in
Great idea!
Every time I say I'm not gonna buy any more jackets this year, you pump out another video. And I have an internal struggle.
I can relate to that 😅
Hahahahaha you can do what i do and buy and then deeply regret spending more money and then stress about it but also be incredibly excited
Oh geez it’s a real thing
@@TheIronSnail I currently have 3 jackets on the way to me. Both the regret and the excitement are real.
The only struggle i have, is my wife saying 'how much' and 'you don't need anymore clothes'.
Hey ! To answer some of your questions,
The leather patch is sheepskin, even in Japan. Momotaro uses occasionally deerskin but not on this product.
For the indigo dye, the threads used for the momotaro's sashimi is not dyed as intensely as for their jeans, that's why the colour look lighter. Also every Momotaro's products are one washed, and the dye is inevitably altered in the process, but no bad shrinking surprises !
For the painting, Momotaro uses a screen printing techniques for all printings. So as the fabric as a lot of textures, it's a bit harder to have a perfect clean print on this particular fabric.
For the regular 2nd type denim jacket, no pink stitches as the inseam of their jeans, but it's selvedge ! Same pink as for their jeans !
Hey ty ty ty! Tons of useful info!
By their nature, natural dyes like indigo are going to fade. Their reactivity is why artificial versions are so common. Add in that the chemistry of indigo is different from that of normal fabric dyes even among the natural colors. Natural dyes are like the best laid plans of mice and men, they don't typically survive the washing machine battlefield! Most natural dyes are made with some form of acid. Even if they don't start that way, the alum used as a mordant is slightly acidic. So is the cream of tartar you add to enhance dye uptake. With indigo though, you need to use strong alkali. It starts as Indoxyl and goes through two more compounds before it becomes the classic indigo. Red and blue are two of the most difficult colors to find in nature.
Natural dyes like indigo also don't like to stay when used on any kind of artificial fiber. In order to work best, the fabric or yarn needs to be au natural.
Sashiko is a method of weaving fabric in addition to being a stitching/repair method. So while we think of sashiko as the fun patterns we use to mend our jeans & other clothes, this jacket's material being called sashiko is also correct.
Agreed. He really needs to read more about sashiko fabric itself. Cheers
I believe this is actually a dobby weave. I have a momotaro chore coat/deck coat in the same fabric and they call it a dobby weave. I could be wrong but it looks identical. Keep it up man, good stuff.
Interesting! Looking up dobby weave now!
I own one of these jackets and I get compliments on it wherever I go. Both in my imagination.
"""Sashiko""" jackets have such a cool look to them. The plain weave and indigo color mesh real well together. Looking at a piece form Taylor Stitch in that fabric. Great video as always!
Thank you thank you! And TS makes amazing sashiko jackets!
This video got me to look into Momotaro. As a new denim head with a pair of Bravestar and one in Freenote I wanted to find a denim jacket. I ended up buying this exact same jacket after watching this very video. Thanks man. Love your work!
So glad to hear it!
The way he edit his own phone number hahahahah. It was an instant like for me hahahaha. So hilarious!!
Hahaha ty!
Boro is such a beautiful art form
200% agreed!
Duuuuuude I just found your channel and I happen to fucking love your vids! I recently got myself into the denim world and your videos are not only entertaining but also really helpful, keep it up!
Hey ty!!
edo period in japan was when japan was isolated for 250 years from 1603 (year queen elizabeth I died) - 1858 when the us stormed in and made japan sign the treaty of ami6ty and commerce on 29th July 1858
Ah, thank you!! I’m reading about it now!
That restaurant is down the street from the house I grew up in. Has been there a long time, and I love their sushi.
You’re criminally underrated/unsubbed. You obviously put in a lot of time/work into these videos. You’re also charismatic and funny. Anyways, enough of the compliments. I have the RGT Sashiko Cruiser, and I got to say, it’s my favorite/comfiest jacket! Been trying to get those fades going! I think you’ll like it and can’t wait to see your video about it!
Hey thanks so much! And YES I can’t WAIT to get that jacket it looks insane
The subtle battle stripes on the jacket you sold are so much better.
Ugh tell me about it
Really great content man, stay consistent and you’ll do fantastic on this platform
Thank you so much!
They do indeed use the pink selvedge ID on their jackets.
This is the worst best news ever
Really looking forward to a video on the RGT sashiko. And getting mine of course. I’m gonna look pretty silly wearing that thing in July with cargo shorts.
I just went to see if I could find that same jacket you sold on eBay, and there's one for sale but it's a size 40! Lol
Always learning smth new at ur channel!
Glad to hear it!!
solid content dude, keep on creating vids like this!!
Ty! I will!
I just figured it out! Its called Kendo! Kendo fabric that is used in Judo and Kendo uniforms
Mmmmiiiaacheeeell, great video again, love yaaa! Keep going
Those rest stops on the Palasaids used to be seriously sketchy but it seems as though you made it.
I got a feeling they may be sketchy but it looked nice and clean when I went!
I really hope The Iron Snail ™️ makes a type II denim jacket!
Me too!!
WOAHHHHHHH you’re the guy from raw denim Reddit with the gf. Hype bro 😎
HA yes!
Dig the jacket, but what sweater is that? Looks comfy as hell.
Edit: The Iron Snailers need a sweater rundown.
Sweater run down sounds like an AMAZING IDEA
It’s the LL Bean commando sweater!
Soaking your clothes in water to either enter (yeah don't do that) or escape a fire is probably one of the surest ways to boil yourself alive. Water soaked fabrics conduct heat WAY faster than dry ones. If you ever find yourself trapped in a fire you would be much better off shielding yourself with something dry and organic like a wool blanket than something wet or synthetic. All that said that was a pretty neat bit of history, video is MUCH LIKE
Agreed don’t ever do that! And TY!!
Did you sell the jacket on eBay?
I did not!
Can you do a review of your BJ jacket?
I bought the new version in black today. What can I say? The jacket is insane. I’m Totally in love 🙋🏼♂️
Congrats, man. Always good to buy something, and really like it. Stay blessed
the golden time of michael-in-car product reviews
Great video! Just curious what brand is the henley you are wearing at the beginning of the video?
J. Crew!
That jacket is slick. Have you tried Billy Reid? I just got a moleskin trucker and it's pretty great.
I have not yet!! I’ll look into them!
Yeah, I kinda dig the one you sold more. You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone, I suppose? Been there
The age old saying is true once again!
Hey, your local Japanese guy here (technically half-japanese... and born and raised in Sweden... but still!) and also proud owner of a sashiko jacket, although from Japan Blue!
About the sashiko aspect of the jacket: It's in the style of Dogi (martial arts clothing), which used to be made by hand stitching, but because of cost efficiency and technological advancements, nowadays use a special kind of loom to weave the sashiko (also called sashiko-ori or sashi-ori) into the fabric, which creates a more uniform look than the boro style that is more "authentic" sashiko. If you look at the blue "dots" of the jacket, you can see that they are in fact, small stabs. which is what sashiko can be translated as!
Tldr: The jacket is in fact a sashiko jacket, but uses a modern loom to create the fabric instead of hand stitching. Hence, it's not because these jackets are often "sashikoed" that they're called sashiko jackets, but because of the sashiko-ori fabric itself.
Fascinating info! Thanks for the read!! Going to look into it more now
Glad you mentioned the tale of Momotaro. Japanese mythology is one of my favorites and its FULL of bizzare beasts. Look up the woodcuts of Toriyama Sekian for some examples of how medevil Japanese people viewed their world. From piles of skulls who stare at the general responsible for their deaths to a giant face cackling on the horizon and a cute furry racoon like creature capable of using its testicles to turn into things. No I'm not joking. That is a creature in Japanese mythology that exists.
It is not Sashiko. My mother does a more ornamental version of Sashiko called slow stitching. Her work takes patches from our old clothes and cloth stashes that have been sitting around forever, and then embroiders freeform designs, almost like a painter on a canvas. She hangs them on her wall. I have a handbag she made for me by hand with this technique, originally for foraging, but then my favorite store bought handbag that had a lot of pockets finally tore to pieces in the wash. I even tried mending it with a piece of embroidery floss from mom's supplies. But it didn't hold up. Plus the zippers broke, and I had to cut them off or get them snagged on my clothes. I literally wore out my previous handbag to threadbare status. I had other handbags and I could have gone to goodwill to get another one. I don't like those prissy designer looking things that are teeny tiny eeny weeny. I'm a crafter and a forager, my shit has to hold a lot and take a beating.
Did you notice? Hold up a picture of your jacket next to that Japanese firefighter coat. The armband matches the waist on the firefighter's coat. ;) In fact the firefighter's coat strongly resembles the modern denim one you were showcasing.
I really have to clean my worktable with all the scrap cloth and yarn, all the herbs and flowers and seeds and all the dishes of dried plant material intended for the dye pot. Tonight I'm trying to troubleshoot fallout 76 and combing dogbane fiber for spinning while I listen. But I wanted to share one of the materials I'm experimenting with with you.
Dogbane is a wild plant related to both milkweed and oleander. Although the living plant material is very poisonous, just like its relative, (Oleander in fact is so poisonous that in poisoning murder cases the cops could consider it a potential murder weapon), the dogbane stalks die back in the autumn, the poison returns to the root system and the plant leaves behind a tall, dark brown, craggy stalk. These stalks are harvested, crushed, peeled, and what peels away are long ribbons of auburn gold/brown bast fiber attached to a sort of bark. "Bast" in the textile industry is a fiber that comes from the inner bark of a plant. The chips of stalk leftover from dogbane processing go into my garden, where any remaining poison decays. Unlike their heavy metal relatives, poisons from plants and fungi can decompose. So poisonous plants and fungi are safe to compost.
Then the more meticulous work begins. If I were to put these ribbons immediately onto my spindle to spin they would snap once spun tight enough. I use pet detangling combs and slicker brushes to seperate the fiber from the outer bark. Sometimes a damp hand helps, the material is very absorbant and softens in response to being dampened just like cotton or linen would. If the bark bits aren't removed it will cause tangles or worse, weak points in your finished yarn. Then I fold the brushed fibers over a hook and either twist them into a strick to be spun later or start spinning them on a homemade drop spindle. I made it from air dry modeling clay, a dowel, hot glue, and a hook. I have a smaller spindle for working more delicate fibers made from fimo, an old knitting needle, and hot glue. Now I'm experimenting with homemade plant dyes and different forms of homemade looms.
I'm not a fashionista. I started doing this because of how much I hate fast fashion. Just hating a thing doesn't fix it though. What does is understanding it and making the right choice the easiest one.
If you want Iron, I can tweet you the videos that got me interested in fibercrafts and arts.
I can't follow you on Instagram! But I will!
You're pronouncing momotaro wrong it's momotaro not momotaro
Hhahahahaha oh wow i love this comment
This gives me "do you read it as data or data" vibes 😂
have you looked into kapital as a brand?
Not as much as I should BUT i did see they have a really cool sashiko jacket but it just looked really short from what I remember
What were the green trousers in this video?
Uniqlo!
Love my Momotaro slubby jeans.
Can’t beat them!
That looks like the long haul in waffle from Taylor stitch
Very very almost spot on color! If you look close at the two fabrics though the weave is pretty different
So you've had a lot of type 2 and type 3 denim jackets but where are the type 1 and the lee's?
Been thinking about a type 1 recently!! And a Lee Stormrider 😍
Where to get this jacket in 2023?! And in Sweden?
I'll buy it now. But it is probably too late and I don't have any money. But. Yeah nice Eminem bars
pretty good video
We have the same dimensions? Interesting
Interesting indeed
Do you have a PO Box 📦?
I do not! DM me on IG if you wanna get in touch!
Oris momotaro!!!
New music Friday is cool but The Friday Iron Snail video is better
Top tier A+ 100% comment
What? No way! *I* was born from a peach!
Phil!!!! This jacket is made for you!
FUSION!!!
FUSION!
It's ehh dough (Edo period).
Soggy boy fire fighters. Nice.
The soggy boys are coming to save the day!
momotareoh lmao
Basket weave
It's okay. I'm going to be just fine
FUSION
I thought you were going to tell us about a woman you lost... not a jacket!
Raw american selvedge isn't even the best alternative to japanese selvedge denim. A whole nother fabric is a better..
It’d be too obvious!
I'm sorry, no matter how cool their fabrics are, their branding kills any enthusiasm I have for them. Those bands are just too big and obvious. No way I'm paying that much to advertise for them.
Whatever you say
桃太郎🍑
Tah
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@@TheIronSnail 😂
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I like what i see
This is the best news
You have crapped over the name, Jersey boy. It’s NOT MomoTAYro it’s MomOHtaro. It’s insulting to the brand. About Shishiko read about it in Heddel
Hey! From what others have said it’s actually “MomoTAHro” not what we were saying
Nomos-taro, best german-japan collab since WW2