Our Sashiko range pioneers a new approach to creating highly durable clothing

The technique of sashiko, or ‘little stabs,’ is a highly resilient form of embroidery developed during the Japanese Edo period, where worn out garments were repaired using decorative hand stitches. Clothes would be mended again and again as they passed down the generations, getting stronger as they got older. Our Sashiko range pioneers a completely new approach to creating highly durable clothing, inspired by the ancient Japanese art of sashiko. Every piece comes pre-repaired with millions of high strength meta-aramid stitches.

The Sashiko Jacket is reinforced with 1 million meta-aramid stitches

Rather than waiting until an item of clothing needs to be repaired, we’ve simply applied sashiko-style stitching in super-strong meta-aramid thread over the entire Sashiko Jacket at the start of its life. By combining high-grade jacquard cotton with 5.5 kilometres of high-strength stitching, we’ve created a jacket that’s as soft and comfortable as it is tough and durable. Every Sashiko Jacket takes a dedicated artisan three days to construct.

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Our Sashiko range pioneers a completely new approach to creating highly durable clothing, inspired by the ancient Japanese art of sashiko.

REPAIRING CLOTHES MADE THEM TOUGHER

The Japanese tradition of mending clothing with sashiko stitching was a brilliant example of how a sustainable approach to clothing could actually improve the clothes at the same time. Sashiko was used to keep farmers warm, fishermen dry, and make firemen’s coats thicker. So we wanted to explore whether this stitching technique, which creates very strong repairs, could be applied to a whole garment as a way of building in durability from the very start of its lifespan. Our Sashiko Jacket is soft and extremely comfortable to wear, but with 5.5km of meta-aramid fibre stitching, it’s also tough and hard-wearing at the same time.