201512 Business trip to Shiga (hemp fabric)

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It is woven with a shuttle loom, which is an old type of loom. It is difficult to weave linen fabric with a shuttle loom at an ultra-high density, and the speed is slower than modern looms. Every time the thread breaks, the craftsman splices the thread, resets the thread, and repeats the operation of the loom. Only a few meters can be woven in an hour when leveled, but the high-density finish is possible only with a shuttle loom.

The 25HD cloth series is woven on this shuttle loom.

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This is the back side of the loom. From now on, it is sent to the front side, the weft thread is passed through, and the thread is crossed to become the fabric.
More than 1000 warp threads before the weft threads are passed through. It takes a huge amount of work and time just to set the warp threads.

Most of Pint!'s linen products use fabrics woven on this shuttle loom (only linen denim uses a modern rapier loom).
Please try our shuttle weave linen fabric.


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