Vollebak Sashiko Chore Jacket
Reinforced with 1 million high-strength stitches, Vollebak's Sashiko Chore Jacket pioneers a completely new approach to creating highly durable clothing, inspired by the ancient Japanese art of sashiko. The technique of sashiko, or 'little stabs,' is a highly resilient form of embroidery developed during the Japanese Edo period, where worn out garments were repaired using decorative hand stitches. Rather than waiting until an item of clothing needs to be repaired, Vollebak has simply applied sashiko-style stitching in super-strong meta-aramid thread over the entire jacket at the start of its life. With a design based on early workwear jackets, it combines heavy-duty, richly-coloured Japanese indigo cotton with 5.5 kilometres of high-strength stitching for comfort and durability. It comes with buttons made from vegetable waste and polyester resin from the aerospace industry, and pockets so beautifully cut that they look like they've been made using origami.
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