Toyoda Model G loom, Science Museum, London In previous posts I've discussed Toyoda looms in relation to the silly myth that Jap...

Just a quick, late note to say I'll be speaking about denim and the Counterculture at the V&A this evening, Friday 4 November, in...

It took a photographer, Farhad Samari, to express it best: the yarns are the foundation on which denim is built. This second part of my inte...

 Denim nerds love talking about selvage edges, and looms. But really when we're do so, we're overlooking something more vit...

Thanks to Aria for sending me an entertaining email this morning, asking if these "Levi's selvedge made in the USA" were ge...

I'm lucky enough, and of course old enough, to have worn dozens of beautiful selvage jeans. I've worn in original Levi's fr...

This is an interesting and - for me - optimistic news story from the BBC, reporting that sales of Northampton-made shoes...