Smokestack 17 oz Awa Shoai natural hank dyed Indigo/Kakishibu weft Tokushima slub jeans

 17 oz Awa Shoai Natural Hank dyed  indigo warp, Kakishibu(persimmon fruit dyed) weft from a secret mill in Tokushima Japan. Awa means Awa Provence, which was the original name of the modern Tokushima prefecture. Sho in Japanese means real and Ai refers to Natural Indigo dye. Kakishibu is a Japanese word for persimmon dyed. A natural brownish/orange  dye from the orange colored Asian fruit. Here at Left Field we have never seen a more unique and beautiful denim in my 25 years. The slub yarns vary in thickness, with some individual yarns going thick to thin thru out the individual yarn similar to a hand spun Khadi yarn.  The effect of the slub denims in the warp create a look that they refer to as"falling rain"  The denim is a Hank Dyed natural  plant dyed Indigo. In order to Hank Dye denim, a master craftsman dips the yarn skein into a vat of Natural Indigo and hand twist the Indigo deep into the yarn core. The nature of this process produces yarns with varying depths of Indigo Hues