Hasta La Ideas

The crucially important Production Methods class many of us took as ID students could only cram three or four dozen processes into a semester (and as you can see here, we’ve tried to post about as many of those processes as possible for those of you without ID educational backgrounds); so it’s no wonder that most of them were confined to metal- or plastic-working processes. But ID encompasses soft materials like fabrics as well, so we’re always on the lookout for those gaps in our curriculum. Reader Kat sent us a link to this video revealing the manufacture of a material most of us wear, the denim that goes into jeans:

Self Edge x Cone Mills x Roy from Self Edge on Vimeo.

The video is beautiful to watch, but a little frustrating in that there’s no explanatory narrative illuminating the specific steps. Thankfully Cool Hunting’s Josh Rubin has provided some explanation so we can sort of tell what the heck is going on:

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