TYPE 130 TAPERED HEMP–WOOL–COTTON BULL DENIM ACHILLES’ HEEL INDIGO DYED | Tender Co Best

Tender has its roots in antique workwear and machinery, especially from the Great British Steam Age. An important face of Tender’s English–made clothing is the nurture which is put into the clothes: in their research, design, manufacture and wear. Tender’s goal is for the owner to live with their clothes, wearing them hard, but respecting their provenance and the stories they have to tell.

Achilles Heel Indigo Dyed Hemp Wool Cotton Bull Denim Type 130 Jean

Straight leg jeans with an extra high rise and a generous seat and thigh.

Bull Denim is a traditional name for a simple undyed twill fabric, perhaps named for John (or formerly Johnny) Bull, the archetypal Englishman first depicted by John Arbuthnot in 1712.

This interpretation of a bull denim is woven on an ecru cotton warp with a mixed weft of Yorkshire–grown hemp and wool.The wool fibre is spun into the hemp to provide elasticity to the yarn, and this weft is woven to the face of the fabric, leaving a smooth cotton inside to the garment, with a textured outside.The cloth is woven in a left hand twill, making it particularly soft and comfortable to wear.

Achilles’ garments are hand dyed with indigo in Kojima. The garments are gripped tightly at a certain place thus blocking the indigo and showing the undyed fabric underneath. 

Pocket bags, and pocket mouth lining / Straight cut side pockets will stretch to curve with wear / Snob’s Thumb coin pocket with selvage calico facing / Riveted 2 button fly / Lost wax cast brass waistband button / 100% cotton thread

Made in England