今回のProjectは約140年前のジーンズの縫い糸の素材は？太さは？色は？ってのが全然イメージが分からなかったので強引に企画段階から糸のプロを巻き込んでスタートしました。
縫い糸というのは基本的に大手の繊維商社が作ってるイメージですが、TCBが採用してる糸は児島の小さな糸屋さん。
昔のジーンズの糸に惚れ込み、研究を重ね、大好きなアメリカの老舗ジーンズメーカーに10年間糸を提案し続けて採用まで漕ぎ着けるというモノ作り目線でも営業目線でも執念の持ち主。
（まるで日曜劇場の陸王を観てるかの様なストーリーを直接聞かせて頂きました。）

そんな糸のプロの協力を得て、ボロボロのVintageからのサンプリングなんで、経験則や妄想も入るけど糸の太さと色のアドバイスを頂き、TCBでは初めて縫い糸を別注で作成する事になりました。

The project this time is to reproduce jeans and denim jacket from about 140 years ago.
I was not too sure about the thread used back then, what it’s made of, the color, the yarn count, etc. I assumed some hemp might be mixed in the thread to make them cheaper so I asked some help with a thread-professional this time.

He fell in love with vintage jeans and he’d been studying all about vintage threads. Even after he established his thread company, his most vintage-alike threads were not adopted by the L company but he never gave up. He continued suggesting his threads to the L for 10 years and finally his threads were used by them when the company tried to make an ultimate reproduction jeans. He is a true craftsman as well as a great sales person.

With the help of this guy, I think we’ve made the world best threads to reproduce these blue golds!