Engineered for the trail. Designed for everything around it.
Technical fabrics and classic yarn-dyed patterns, developed from the first handloom through to the finished garment.
Yarn-dyed flannel
Handloom to bulk
Knitwear
Custom jacquards
Hybrid midlayers
Men’s & women’s
Men’s capsule concept
Loomed for Work
Heritage fabric, engineered for the trail. A workwear-inspired capsule, designed from first sketch to render.
The wearer: someone who works with their hands and plays outside, and wants one honest layer that goes from the shop or job site to the trailhead without looking like gear.
Self-initiated concept. Flats are my own CAD linework. Renders and on-model looks are AI-assisted concept images made from those flats.
The idea
01 · Fabric
02 · Construction
Japanese selvedge, rope-dyed indigo, woven on slow shuttle looms. A craft story with a self-finished edge.
02 · Construction
02 · Construction
Workwear built to last: reinforced stress points, flat-felled seams, and utility pockets where a long day actually needs them.
03 · Proportion
03 · Proportion
A relaxed, straight late-90s outdoor shape, kept clean and modern enough to wear every day.
Design markers
Line
Texture
Texture
Straight, relaxed lines and clean construction, taken from ridgelines and groomed snow.
Texture
Texture
Texture
Woven twill, wool and water-worn stone. Texture that reads before color.
Color
Texture
Color
Indigo first, with ecru, copper and a rust accent pulled from the hardware and red rock.
Inside the capsule
Energy & color
Slow looms, workshop stitching, trail-ready ease. Indigo leads in three depths.
Raw indigo, washed indigo and slate, grounded by oatmeal and canvas sand, with red line and stitch gold as the accents.
The capsule · flat to render
Two selvedge heroes and five supporting pieces, one indigo story. In each pair, left is my CAD flat and right is the AI-assisted concept render made from it.
Heroes: chore coat in raw selvedge, work pant in stonewash selvedge.
Supporting: shirt-jacket in sand canvas, flannel in yarn-dyed plaid, crew in oatmeal loopback.
Plus two entry pieces: shibori tee in indigo resist dye, 5-panel cap in raw indigo denim.
Denim · weight, wash, finish
Heavyweight selvedge, washed two ways, finished by hand.
Weight: heavy, 12 oz+. Heavier cloth is stiffer, warmer and fades with wear. Right for a coat and a work pant.
Wash (top row): raw / rinse for the chore coat, rigid and dark; stone wash for the work pant, softer hand and mid-blue break-in; enzyme light as an option for a casual, lighter story.
Finish (bottom row): dry process, with whiskers at the hip and tacking at the cuff; stone abrasion, a pumice fade at seams and knees; a red selvedge line at the cuff and inside the coat seam.
Images show direction. Final washes and finishing are set at sample.
Construction · coat + pant
Built to take the load, and to wear in instead of wearing out.
Chore coat: flat-felled seams with enclosed allowance; twin-needle gold topstitch, 7–9 SPI; bar tacks at pocket corners and placket base; keyhole buttonholes and tack buttons; selvedge seam and a lined hidden pocket inside.
Work pant: flat-felled inseam and outseam; raised, double-folded belt loops; chain-stitched hem, edge at the cuff; utility leg pockets with bar-tacked corners; contrast gold twin-needle, matched to the coat.
Pocket bags · trims
Seen only by the wearer: shibori pocket bags. Shown on a concept edit of a real pair, stone wash, with an indigo shibori pocket bag.
Trims, top to bottom: copper rivets at pocket corners, copper finish; gold twin-needle thread, polyester core with cotton wrap; belt loop, raised and double-folded, bar-tacked at the base; metal tack button with keyhole buttonhole; copper shank button, flat face with recessed rings, worn in.
On model · concept looks
Worn the way it is meant to be: on the job, on the trail.
Chore coat in raw selvedge; work pant in stonewash selvedge; 5-panel cap in raw indigo denim with the oatmeal loopback crew. AI-assisted on-model concepts.