Anodised Jacket

Name: Anodised Jacket. Rust edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: JKT143ORAXSM
Price: 3,995.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Built with metallic insulation originally engineered by NASA to stop their spacecraft freezing.

$3,995

Colour: Rust edition

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Super insulating polyamide ripstop shell bonded with metal
IR-reflective to help disrupt thermal imaging
Detachable insulating liner - images coming soon

Launching alongside the Vollebak Spaceshop is our Anodised Jacket – which is built with metallic insulation originally engineered by NASA to stop their spacecraft freezing in space.

Today you’ll find space blankets at the end of marathons where sudden drops in metabolic heat production and wet running clothes put runners at risk of hypothermia. The metal coating stops up to 97% of body heat escaping, dramatically reducing heat loss and stabilising body temperature. But originally this material technology was developed by NASA for spacecraft insulation to stop it freezing in space.

So we’ve repurposed it and built the Anodised Jacket. The metallised ripstop in the Anodised Jacket is created using a galvanic bath and electrochemistry. The result is a jacket that behaves like metal but still moves and breathes like cloth. The metallised surface of the Anodised Jacket has very low emissivity, bouncing back the IR radiation from your body, emitting very little heat, and making you appear cold or even invisible to infrared cameras.

Technical Details

Outer shell: 100% polyamide with galvanised metallisation

Liner outer: 90% wool, 10% cashmere

Liner lining: 60% cotton, 40% cupro

Liner fill: 50% recycled cashmere, 50% recycled polyester

Detachable liner buttons into shell using internal button system

Seam-sealed construction

Articulated sleeve design

Packaway hood concealed in collar

Invisible snaps and YKK Excella two-way zip with anodised finish

Hidden chest pocket under placket

Two external hand pockets with flap and zip

Constructed in Italy

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Field tested in space

Today you’ll find space blankets at the end of marathons where sudden drops in metabolic heat production and wet running clothes put runners at risk of hypothermia. The metal coating stops up to 97% of body heat escaping, dramatically reducing heat loss and stabilising body temperature. But originally this material technology was developed by NASA for spacecraft insulation to stop it freezing in space. So we’ve repurposed that technology and built the Anodised Jacket.

Our Anodised Jacket is built with metallic insulation originally developed by NASA to stop their spacecraft freezing in space.

Made with a galvanic bath and electrochemistry

The metallised ripstop in the Anodised Jacket is created using a galvanic bath and electrochemistry. First we make the fabric conductive, which you can achieve by seeding it with metal particles or coating it in a conducting polymer. Then you submerge it into a bath of metal salts with current running through it. At this point metal ions plate themselves onto every fibre, atom by atom. The result is fabric that behaves like metal but still moves and breathes like cloth.

The near-invisible layer of metal in the Anodised Jacket is created using a galvanic bath and electrochemistry.

It creates a thermal cloak

The metallised surface of the Anodised Jacket has very low emissivity, bouncing back the IR radiation from your body, emitting very little heat, and making you appear cold or even invisible to infrared cameras.

Military spec stealth and insulation

To build the jacket we worked with Italian textile technologists Lenzi Egisto who create high-tech protective clothing and camouflage gear for the military. They have been developing new ways to bond metal to fibres to create materials that can do seemingly contradictory things at the same time – combining high levels of insulation with breathability, metal coatings with flexibility, and keeping you warm while masking body heat in front of thermal imaging cameras. Today our Anodised Jackets are created by electroplating polyamide ripstop with a very fine layer of tin and copper.

The metallised surface of the Anodised Jacket has very low emissivity, bouncing back the IR radiation from your body.

Metallised clothing can also act as a Faraday Cage

While the idea of the ‘tin foil hat’ is now used to suggest someone has spent a bit too long on the internet, the idea first surfaced in a 1927 science fiction short story by Julian Huxley – biologist, early transhumanist, eugenicist and the brother of ‘Brave New World’ author Aldous Huxley. While crumpled metal hats probably have no place in fashion, the idea of metal helping shield you from various forms of electromagnetic radiation does have a place in science.

It comes with a detachable liner

To make the Anodised Jacket work in every season, it comes with a detachable onion quilt liner. The two layers attach to each other with an internal button and loop system.

The cutting-edge metallisation process bonds metal in visible clusters and clouds with an aesthetic unique to every jacket.

Stealth pockets and zip-away hood

The jacket comes with a fully-lined hood that can be tucked into the collar and zipped away. The articulated sleeves allow for easy movement, while the two-way zip and seam-sealed inside of the jacket help keep out the elements. Two zipped hand pockets sit under storm flaps. And there’s a concealed chest pocket hidden behind the double front placket for anything you want to keep extra secure.

Each jacket will develop a unique patina

The Anodised Jacket has been printed in a muted anodised red and anodised grey. And the cutting-edge metallisation process bonds metal in visible clusters and clouds with an aesthetic unique to every jacket. This means that the patina of every jacket will develop differently over time.

Size	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Fits chest	83 - 90	91 - 98	99 - 106	107 - 114	115 - 122	123 - 130
Fits waist	71 - 76	76 - 81	81 - 86	86 - 91	91 - 96	96 - 101

Size	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Fits chest	33 - 36	36 - 39	39 - 42	42 - 45	45 - 48	48 - 51
Fits waist	28 - 30	30 - 32	32 - 34	34 - 36	36 - 38	38 - 40

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