Future Treasure: Sunrise Japan - Indigo & Mud Dyed Jeans
Meet the legendary piece from SRJ here
Nuts but true. While we were hanging out to our favorite spot last week,
we overheard a conversation, and it got us interested. Two men were
holding a quaint pair of jeans a table away, one of them kept flipping
up the pair showing off the inseam and construction. Seriously, it’s the
Sunrise Japan’s. Not a simple pair to find.
Now, it’s no secret that Japanese raw denim is everywhere but for SRJ is different -- and stands out. Frankly, we have yet to see a pair of SRJ jeans that disappoint.
Like this pair of jeans from the two fellows we met. The pair is said to be mud-dyed. Then what is the mud-dyed? We have not yet seen a pair with the term before. (That was why we brought you this.) We mean, according to the history, “mud dyeing is an ancient method to achieve black before the global trade in Logwood in the 1600s and the use of sulphur dyes a couple of –hundred- years later.” (ask the Kiwi, they can confirm that since the the black flax used by Maori's for their traditional costume was made by mud dyeing too.) So these jeans might be one of the children from the Ryukyu areas of the south of Japan where the tradition is preserved. This is remarkable.
Then where on the process did they do the mud-dyeing? The jeans were started off by being sewn together as untreated and undyed denim (virgin than any other raw denim?), and were then hand-craftily dipped in indigo vats and special mud baths before being rinsed and hung dry in the sun. That is how it goes. Because the process was done entirely by hand, each pair of jeans achieves a unique finish. Couldn’t this be simple? Never.
Now, it’s no secret that Japanese raw denim is everywhere but for SRJ is different -- and stands out. Frankly, we have yet to see a pair of SRJ jeans that disappoint.
Like this pair of jeans from the two fellows we met. The pair is said to be mud-dyed. Then what is the mud-dyed? We have not yet seen a pair with the term before. (That was why we brought you this.) We mean, according to the history, “mud dyeing is an ancient method to achieve black before the global trade in Logwood in the 1600s and the use of sulphur dyes a couple of –hundred- years later.” (ask the Kiwi, they can confirm that since the the black flax used by Maori's for their traditional costume was made by mud dyeing too.) So these jeans might be one of the children from the Ryukyu areas of the south of Japan where the tradition is preserved. This is remarkable.
Then where on the process did they do the mud-dyeing? The jeans were started off by being sewn together as untreated and undyed denim (virgin than any other raw denim?), and were then hand-craftily dipped in indigo vats and special mud baths before being rinsed and hung dry in the sun. That is how it goes. Because the process was done entirely by hand, each pair of jeans achieves a unique finish. Couldn’t this be simple? Never.
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