tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66175868184077142592024-02-08T07:52:31.220-08:00Paleo DenimHandmade dry denim jeans.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-9977382011461463252013-02-06T11:29:00.002-08:002013-02-06T11:29:27.472-08:00Paleo Denim has moved!<br />
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Check out the Flickr photo stream - http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-57484998307844540652009-09-07T14:44:00.001-07:002009-09-07T14:48:45.025-07:00<span style="font-family: courier new;">I realized on my motorcycle trip that it was my first selvedge pair's birthday. I then got half naked out in the middle of the river, took pictures, then jumped off boulders with some hippies. Loooove vermont.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3876456449/" title="IMG_1956.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3876456449_2f1bbd6131.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1956.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3897292467/" title="IMG_1931.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3897292467_40db62a2b7.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1931.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3897298851/" title="IMG_1932.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3897298851_1934b13082.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1932.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3897403787/" title="IMG_1930.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2534/3897403787_e815590dfa_o.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_1930.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /></span>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-6469522088718665892009-06-25T20:08:00.000-07:002009-06-25T20:10:49.923-07:00Singer for sale<span style="font-family: courier new;">I rescued and repaired this Singer 66. If anybody is looking to pick up sewing, especially jeans, this is the machine to do it with. It's a real tank and runs beautifully. $75, free drop off in/near/between Cleveland and Syracuse, I can ship without the cabinet anywhere else. paleo.denim@gmail.com<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3536328783/" title="IMG_1805.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3664/3536328783_13ab4d21de.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1805.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3537143832/" title="IMG_1806.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/3537143832_9e7101c9d2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_1806.JPG" /></a><br /></span>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-66438613857093535582009-06-19T18:22:00.000-07:002009-06-25T20:07:15.384-07:00Sample sale<span style="font-family: courier new;">I have some samples kicking around that I'd like to make available to you kind folks.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">First up is a 14 oz Cone selvedge straight leg.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3406916553/" title="_DSC0012 by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3664/3406916553_9dd140a688.jpg" alt="_DSC0012" height="500" width="334" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3407719790/" title="_DSC0013 by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3407719790_f227493413.jpg" alt="_DSC0013" height="334" width="500" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3407720926/" title="_DSC0003 by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/3407720926_a6174c4286.jpg" alt="_DSC0003" height="500" width="334" /></a><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: courier new;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3407718492/" title="_DSC0014 by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3327/3407718492_9f8eaf6cc7.jpg" alt="_DSC0014" height="334" width="500" /></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Measurements in inches-</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Waist - 35 1/2</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Front rise - 11 1/2</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Back rise - 14 1/2</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Thigh - 12</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Knee (13 inches from crotch) - 9 1/2</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Hem - 9</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Inseam - 36</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">The next is a slim straight on streaky 12 oz denim.</span><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: courier new;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3642108777/" title="IMG_0044.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3642108777_44c29210d7.jpg" alt="IMG_0044.JPG" height="500" width="343" /></a></span><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3642108997/" title="IMG_0046.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3311/3642108997_ccb8dded28.jpg" alt="IMG_0046.JPG" height="500" width="326" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3642058445/" title="IMG_1842.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3642058445_0cafcc212d.jpg" alt="IMG_1842.JPG" height="375" width="500" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleodenim/3642864548/" title="IMG_1841.JPG by PaleoDenim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3660/3642864548_ed03fd95a0.jpg" alt="IMG_1841.JPG" height="375" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">This pair only has one rivet on the right front pocket, all other pocket corners are bar tacked.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Measurements -</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Waist - 33</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Front rise - 11 3/4</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Back rise - 14 3/4</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Thigh - 12</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Knee (13 inches from crotch) - 9</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Hem - 8 3/8</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Inseam - 37</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Both sample pairs are available for $115. Email me at paleo.denim@gmail.com if you're interested.</span>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-63430131738855024652009-06-19T15:57:00.000-07:002009-06-19T16:02:30.232-07:00<span style="font-family:courier new;">The project for this week has been cutting out my graded pattern, a slim straight five pocket.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/3630821952_53d7f6d8d0.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/3630821952_53d7f6d8d0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3630007337_28678dc21a.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3630007337_28678dc21a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2452/3630823410_1d63b970ec.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2452/3630823410_1d63b970ec.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br />Sizes 28-34 and 36 are now avaliable. <br /></span>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-43960450266697357882009-06-19T15:40:00.000-07:002009-06-19T17:38:33.686-07:00The Gear Factory<span style="font-family:courier new;">Here are some pictures from the sewing studio I had set up in The Gear Factory in Syracuse. I didn't keep the space, but it was a good experiment for scaling up production in the near future.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2257/3537139168_2d8176abfb.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2257/3537139168_2d8176abfb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br />Future plans for The Gear Factory.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/3537141494_efba54e301.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/3537141494_efba54e301.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">The freight elevator, which I sorely miss.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2323/3536333203_afe9077753.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2323/3536333203_afe9077753.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/3537149042_3389308225.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/3537149042_3389308225.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3536335225_1a44a64753.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3536335225_1a44a64753.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The box in the center (my cutting, ironing and serging station) and the boxes in the upper right with all my tools are actually anti-aircraft munitions boxes. I don't know how they've lasted so long or how many there are in the warehouse, but it makes the place very modular.<br /><br />If you're interested in more information about The Gear Factory, check out the <a href="http://gearfactory.groupsite.com/">groupsite.</a>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617586818407714259.post-78951864839370117832009-06-19T13:14:00.000-07:002009-06-19T16:07:42.963-07:00In the beginning...<span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span>I started making jeans </span><span style="font-family:courier new;">in December 2007, on winter break from school. I'd been boring my friends an</span><span style="font-family:courier new;">d classmates all semester with h</span><span style="font-family:courier new;">alf baked ideas about how I was going to start making my own clothes, and now it was time to make good. Unfortunately a perfectly good pair of th</span><span style="font-family:courier new;">rifted jeans was sacrificed to make the pattern, but them's the breaks.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/dyejedi/This%20is%20how%20you%20505/IMG_0421.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 500px;" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/dyejedi/This%20is%20how%20you%20505/IMG_0421.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/dyejedi/This%20is%20how%20you%20505/IMG_0443.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 500px;" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/dyejedi/This%20is%20how%20you%20505/IMG_0443.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span>I wasn't proud of them at first. The sewing process was a brutal five day fight and extremely humbling. I wasn't able to finish them for want of a button, so they sat in my closet until the summer.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/dyejedi/DSCF0011-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 500px;" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/dyejedi/DSCF0011-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span>When summer came I did start using them as work jeans for at my construction job. The job also let me upgrade equipment, get a few new machines and keep making new jeans. By the end of the summer I picked up a better machine and started sourcing better denim.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3223414891_37d0f4ab7e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3223414891_37d0f4ab7e.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3371/3224273998_8eeffa70a6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3371/3224273998_8eeffa70a6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">A Singer 31-36k from the 1940's.</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></div><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/3224272720_c92d7cb862.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 493px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/3224272720_c92d7cb862.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3372/3223424761_e784205b28.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3372/3223424761_e784205b28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span>The project was put on hold while I was abro</span><span style="font-family:courier new;">ad </span><span style="font-family:courier new;">for fall 2008, but I wore these jeans long and hard and they're precious to me now. 7 months and 6 new passport stamps later they have many many memories etched into the indigo. </span><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3383/3407724390_055948d0a1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3383/3407724390_055948d0a1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901431735598195283noreply@blogger.com2