About Selvedge Denim And Selvedge

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Selvedge-hemming of fabric

Selvedge-there is a red thread on each side of the suture line of the trousers. The shrinkage of these trousers after washing is 8%~10%. In short, it is a way of overlocking vintage jeans. This is an ancient method of overlocking, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and was eliminated by machine overlocking after the production of denim jeans was streamlined.

There are many brands of denim pants (LVC Niu LEE101, etc.) that re-use red selvedge mainly to show their delicate workmanship and high quality.

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Explanation of “Selvedge Denim” and ”Selvedge”

A kind of cloth hemming,mainly mean denim fabric.The English name is selvedge, the Japanese and Chinese are called chier, and there is a red thread on each side of the suture line of the denim trousers. The shrinkage of the denim trousers after washing is 8 %~10%.

The edging of denim jeans includes redline selvedge, white selvedge, etc. In the denim hobby world, what can be called denim must meet two conditions. First, it is woven by the ancient clumsy weaving method; second, it is dyed with natural indigo. Others are divided into edging and non-edging, and those with edging have redline selvedge, white selvedge and so on. The edged fabric is called Selvedge denim.

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“Selvedge Denim” and ”Selvedge”

Weaving of selvedge denim

Ordinary denim material is woven with modern fast looms, with un-edges and a width of 60 inches. Since the selvedge is to be retained, traditional reciprocating shuttle looms are generally used for weaving selvedge denim fabric. The width of the selvage denim fabric is only 30 inches, so it is necessary to keep the red edge (smooth edge), the machine is backward, and the efficiency is low.

Primary color red selvage denim fabric. Selvedge denim is the selvage produced by antique looms in the process of weaving. Generally, there are many colors, but they are collectively referred to as chi (that is, red line) ears. This is difficult to achieve in general industrialized large-scale production machines. Flip over your denim trousers and see which ones have a selvedge?

Why wear the original color, because the denim material is dyed with plants, it will naturally fade due to long-term wear and friction, resulting in cat whiskers and tatters, and the whole pair of denim trousers fully reflects your personal style, walking habits, and work nature. This is usually The washing and aging effects that the general cowboys are striving for are incomparable.

The redline selvedge denim fabric has many types, the most popular one is the changes of colors of the selvedge, BAPE has also produced denim cloth with its English LOGO on the selvedge. The most important point to distinguish whether it is red selvedge denim is to see whether the color or pattern of the selvage is integrated with the denim cloth.

The difference between the red selvedge denim and the edging cloth is that the red selvedge is woven directly on the fabric when the antique loom is woven, and the red selvedge is an integral part of the denim cloth. There are many methods of hemming on the market. The simple method is to use a sewing machine to turn the bones directly, and the other method is to use a piece of colored cloth of other materials to wrap the end of the side seam of the front and rear of the denim pants, This practice is often seen on denim pants.

The denim jeans with red selvedge on the market, in a sense, “red selvedge” represent the identity of a pair of denim jeans. For example, in the brand LEVIS, only LVC series products will use denim with red selvedge, and its price is generally more than 1,000 rmb. And most of the several hundred yuan LEVIS jeans are made of ordinary denim material. All have no red selvedge. The godfather of the Japanese trend, Hiroshi Fujiwara, likes to roll up the denim pants when wearing jeans, exposing the red selvedge inside the denim pants. This way of wearing has also become a fashion for wearing denim jeans.