Loopwheel Crewneck Sweatshirt - Black loopwheel 2mm in thickness on average

2mm in thickness on average

The production required extensive research of aged fabric samples and for the fabric to be woven on a very specific set of vintage Toyoda looms that accurately reproduce the quirks of the original fabric

with the rivetless version starting in 1944

over the top of t-shirt

or maybe a candy corn if you squish it down a little

Loopwheel Crewneck Sweatshirt - Black loopwheel 2mm in thickness on averageSome of the very best sweatshirts in the world are made with loopwheeled fabric from Wakayama, Japan. 400 loopwheel knitting machines remain in Japan, with about 200 running at any time. Each machine can only produce about 12 meters a day roughly 8 sweatshirts worth. These machines were the standard from the 1920's until the 1960s when higher speed (and higher tension) knitting took over for the sake of efficiency at the cost of softness and comfort.