Leaf Line vs. Primordial Line

You’re currently viewing our Leaf line of clothing. The goal of the Leaf line is to offer our silhouettes at a lower cost without compromising on fabric quality, manufacturing location, or anything of the sort. Instead, we look for ways to lower costs such as: using non-selvedge denim instead of selvedge, using fabrics without patterns so our fabric yield is higher, removing linings to make pieces for slightly warmer weather, sticking to more traditional materials, etcetera. Our Leaf line products are made in the same factories, have the same fit, some of the same details as our Primordial line, and are all guaranteed to be of outstanding quality.

How did we lower the cost? It’s quite easy with denim. Generally, selvedge denim, although fascinating, filled with wonderful textures and self-finished, is around four times more expensive than its non-selvedge counterpart. This is due to the speed of production and also the width of the rolls of fabric. A roll of non-selvedge denim is generally two times wider than selvedge denim (half the fabric for double the cost). Of course, that doesn’t mean we didn’t go far beyond the grade. Hailing from the great state of Louisiana is our 12oz raw denim with an incredibly beautiful indigo hue and a fair amount of hairy texture (caused by short cotton fibers that were purposely not burned off in the finishing process of denim). This denim, while firm and the slightest bit rigid upon the first touch, will soften up quickly and flow easily. Twelve-ounce denim is the industry standard weight for a reason; it’s near perfection. While not selvedge, this may well be many a customer’s favorite denim.

A signature of our newly minted jeans is hemp pocket bags. On our leaf line, we use a 55% hemp, 45% cotton blended 7oz twill. This allows us to balance the insane added strength of using hemp, with the affordability of cotton. Why use hemp at all? There is an age-old problem the world is lazily trying to solve: holes in pockets. There must be a million ways to do it; some involve moving seams, others involve using ballistic nylon. Our way involves hemp. We at Iron Snail HQ are good friends with a scientist named Zach. Zach tests our fabrics when they need to be tested and most recently, hemp needed to be tested (full blog post here). We knew hemp was stronger than cotton, but the question was, how much? The answer to that was: quite a bit. We found that, for the most part, our lightweight hemp samples were almost as strong as our heavy-weight cotton samples. This means that if we used hemp at all in our fabrics, we could keep our pocket bags flowy and silky while also far surpassing their cotton counterparts in strength and tear resistance. Scroll down for more information on what makes hemp so magical.