You’re currently viewing our Primordial line of clothing. With the Primordial line comes more premium fabrics, details, and features that far exceed the grade of standard garments. In the case of the Thief's Prologue, we are using 15oz Japanese selvedge denim and moleskin lined pockets.

Selvedge denim is made via a shuttle loom and is a self-finished fabric, meaning it doesn’t fray in its unsewn state. It’s typically hallmarked by a white selvedge line at the fabric’s edge and a red ticker, as seen here. Selvedge denim is much slower to produce and only comes in half-width (a roll of fabric is half the width of what’s more commonly used today), which means it’s typically around four times more expensive than its wide-width, non-selvedge counterpart, although prices can vary greatly. Selvedge denim harkens back to the old days of denim making but stopped being the dominant denim in the 1980s when the far more efficient projectile loom took over. However, a slower, lower-yielding process that produces a cleaner and more interesting product naturally attracts craftsmen and artists, particularly in Japan—though fantastic denim is made worldwide. Japanese denim mills originally set out to create perfect recreations of vintage, hard-to-find denim, but soon the culture morphed beyond recreation into an art form. Now, selvedge denim is where we find crazy textures, heavier fabric weights, fascinating dyeing techniques, obsessive attention to detail, and of course, a cleaner, more finished look. The world of selvedge denim is a rabbit hole! Welcome to the party!

Moleskin is a positively wonderful fabric. It’s a twill that’s heavily brushed on one side and has a short nap. Think velvety and suede-like. It’s been used for centuries as workwear, formal wear, military wear, and really, anything in between. It's far more popular in Europe than in the US and we used it as a little way of nodding to vintage workwear used overseas. Beyond nodding though, it’s incredibly robust, slightly insulating, soft as a bunny, and quite rich. Perhaps when we make chore coats (which are often constructed out of moleskin) we’ll hide a little denim somewhere. Our main goal here is for someone to say: “Good golly! What has he gots in his pockets?!”