WATTLE
Acacia wood, also known as wattle, mimosa, or cutchwood, is a thorny tree native to Australia, India, and China, and has been used for thousands of years to tan leather and dye fabrics.
When British settlers arrived in the Antipodes in the mid 19th Century they built shelters using the ancient ‘wattle and daub’ method of weaving together twigs and plastering them with mud. Because acacia was plentiful and its thin twigs were flexible, the trees were named ‘wattle’ trees. The Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) would write ‘in the spring when the wattle gold trembles, twixt shadow and shine’.
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TYPE 131 LOST JEANS
Recut 'Lost' jeans from 2011. 130s with a slightly straighter lower leg, but not quite the full straight wide leg of 132s.
TYPE 122 PLEAT BACK JEANS
Based on the 132 jeans pattern, 122 jeans do not have back pockets or a back yoke- the seat is shaped by two 'English' pleats, facing towards the middle.
HAND LINKED WOOL SOCKS
TYPE 531 ELEPHANT EAR BACKPACK
The Elephant Ear backpack is cut from a single piece of heavy fabric bound around the edges with ecru cotton and folded up, with an ear at each side, riveted through to the back with a brass eyelet.
TYPE 980 DART SHOULDER JACKET
To shape and stiffen the shoulders, the fronts and backs of the Dart Shoulder Jacket are cut in a single, straight, piece, which is darted at an angle where a shoulder seam normally would be.
TYPE 463 ARGYLE HAND POCKET SHIRT
The Argyle Hand Pocket Shirt is based on the Millwheel Shirt, with diagonally angled square hand-warmer pockets forming an argyle pattern at the bottoms of the front panels.
TYPE 422 SQUARE TAIL SHIRT
The Square Tail Shirt is a straight cut version of the original Tail Shirt, with a single chest pocket shaped after the shirt of an early Tender customer and friend, who cut a chest pocket out of the fabric of the original side pockets.
TYPE 478 SQUARE TAIL YOKE POCKET SHIRT
The Square Tail Yoke Pocket Shirt is constructed with bias-cut yokes running from a seam at the back of the neck over the shoulders, and down to the lower chest.
TYPE 498 SHORT SLEEVE OPEN SHOULDER FLOOR SHIRT
Combining the shape and construction of the Floor Shirt with the shoulders of the Driver's Jacket, the Short Sleeve Open Shoulder Floor Shirt is constructed with elongated front and back panels which overlap, forming a double thickness open yoke at the shoulders .
TYPE 462 MILLWHEEL SHIRT
The Millwheel Shirt is formed around the idea of rotational symmetry. The front chest pocket is tucked into the outward-facing button placket and the back pleat is taken out in one direction only.
TYPE 430 LONG SLEEVE BUTTERFLY SHIRT
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? The Butterfly Shirt came about from working through the changes needed to be made for the Type 420 Tail Shirt to have no side seams.
TYPE 432 SHORT SLEEVE BUTTERFLY SHIRT
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? The Butterfly Shirt came about from working through the changes needed to be made for the Type 420 Tail Shirt to have no side seams.
