Heavyweight Long Sleeve Tee Green

Thick Long-Sleeved Dubble Works Green T-shirt

• 100% cotton / 9oz
• Straight fit
• Crew neck
• Long sleeves
• Tube construction "loopwheel"
• Reinforced single stitching
• Made in Japan

Dubble Works was created over 10 years ago by the Japanese label Warehouse & Co. and is now under the management of Sankei Meriyasu. Historically, it is a knitwear company founded in 1926, known for making high-quality sweatshirts and t-shirts. Indeed, to make their cotton jerseys, they primarily use old circular weaving machines from the 1920s called "loopwheelers".

For this piece, Dubble Works chose another old and circular industrial machine called "Standwheeler", originally designed and created in Wakayama, Japan. Rare and difficult to operate, only a handful of artisans can run it. The cotton jersey produced by the Standwheelers is very different from the classic loopwheel t-shirts. Indeed, these machines allow spinning a much thicker yarn than the norm. This results in a fabric that is both thick and robust yet still breathable. Furthermore, the Japanese label incorporates shorter fibers from fiber scraps during the combing process into the weave. This addition creates texture and irregularity. This is the Raffy yarn, historically the first made from recycled cotton.