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A soft-shouldered undyed jacket on the stand, its seams pressed open and shown
Topic

Tailoring

Construction as the ornament: seams pressed open and left on show, shoulders cut soft, a jacket judged by how it sits after a decade rather than a season.

A running thread · The seam, the shoulder, the ten-year cut
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The stance

What tailoring means here

Not the statement suit, but the make left legible: nothing fused, nothing lined for the sake of it, every seam that could be hidden instead shown. Quiet tailoring is the new statement, and the statement is the finish. Below, the houses cutting for the shoulder and building to be kept.

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Two makers at a four-hand loom, mid-row, working a single piece between them The four-hand atelier, one stitch at a timeTailoring · Long read A hand-turned cuff in undyed corriedale wool, construction left visible The turned cuff, and why it keeps returningTailoring · Technique
The luxury is the labour, and the restraint is the point. The tailoring stance
An older hand-linker closing a knit seam by eye at the bench Counting rows by eye: the last hand-linkersTailoring · The makers Undyed cloth swatches in grades of natural grey, no dye lot Undyed, unbleached: the case for the natural greyTailoring · Materials Skeins dipped in natural dye drying on a line, muted earth tones A field guide to natural dyeTailoring · Reference

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