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Sashiko Jacket

Reinforced with 1 million high-strength stitches, using the ancient Japanese art of sashiko.

CHF 695

Model is 6ft 2 / 188cm with a 38 inch / 96cm chest, and wears size Large.

  • Material made in Japan
  • Reinforced with 5.5km of meta-aramid thread
  • Built from 100% high-grade jacquard cotton

Reinforced with 1 million high-strength stitches, the Sashiko Jacket pioneers a completely new approach to creating highly durable clothing, inspired by the ancient Japanese art of sashiko. 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.

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 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.

Black Algae Dyed T Shirt

Made with seaweed from Icelandic fjords, and the world’s first black algae dye.

CHF 125

Technical Details

Material made in Portugal: 80% organic cotton, 20% SeaCell
T shirt garment dyed with black algae dye
Soft and breathable
T shirt weighs 175 grams
Material weighs 150g/m2
Machine wash inside out at 30°C
Constructed in Portugal
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Turning algae into dye took 5 years of R&D

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small, otherwise the t shirt’s fibres won’t absorb them. So Living Ink have spent 5 years in R&D working on how to reduce the size of the black algae particles to an average of 1 micron. This breakthrough creates a sustainable alternative to dyeing clothing using traditional carbon-black based dyes, and with a clear pathway for scaling up.

Our intensive R&D process didn't stop with the dye

We carried out 6 months of lab tests to successfully dye our t shirt, trying different fabrics, dyeing temperatures, and pigment concentrations, before finding the perfect combination.

Size + Fit

The Black Algae T Shirt is designed with a regular fit.

SizeXSSMLXLXXLXXXL
Fits chest83 - 9091 - 9899 - 106107 - 114115 - 122123 - 130131 - 138
Fits waist71 - 7676 - 8181 - 8686 - 9191 - 9696 - 101102 - 107
SizeXSSMLXLXXLXXXL
Fits chest33 - 3636 - 3939 - 4242 - 4545 - 4848 - 5151 - 54
Fits waist28 - 3030 - 3232 - 3434 - 3636 - 3838 - 4040 - 42