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The sounds of the shuttle looms roaring like muscle cars, blue dusts from indigo dancing in the whole room, this is one of the best mills in Japan, Shinya mills. It’s also where our 50’s and 20’s & 30’s fabric are woven.There are a few things about Shinya I was quite surprised about. First, the number of machines they have and its machine brand. They have about 70 of these “Ensyu” vintage shuttle looms. I have visited several mills before but 70 is by far the biggest number for sure. You may have heard of the name, GL-3 Toyoda but probably not ‘Ensyu’. By the way, Ensyu means the area close to Mt.Fuji. The mountain represents to Japanese people something mighty or second...

Hi from Okyama, Japan. We are making jeans as usual but recently I received so many questions like, When do you start offering the rigids? or Is one wash bad for the beautiful fades. I know there are many of those who  cherish the shrink-to-fit ritual in a bath tab or in the sea for hardcore denim heads. That being said, I was one of them, to be more precise, I like both rigid and one-wash. TCB does 99% of the jeans-making in-house but the only outsourced is washing & drying. We have just finished the production of TCB 50's slim so I myself visited the washing factory and requested the washing and the drying yesterday. It looks wet on...