Introduction for Selvedge Denim

Selvedge Denim (Chi’er Danning in Chinese) – Which is one of the world's oldest fabric varieties. Since the 16th century, it has been used to make jeans, and it still enjoy a high popularity especially for high-end market, these jeans made with selvedge denim is regarded as premium jeans.

 

With the rapid development of industrial mechanization, this kind of denim fabrics produced with old-fashioned shuttle looms fell out of broad use in the years after World War II, when more efficient technologies were developed and applied in market. These new projectile looms or high-speed rapier looms didn’t require a bulky shuttle and could produce much wider lengths of fabric. That’s still how the fabric edges of most mass-market jeans are finished today.

 

But it has seen a recent resurgence alongside vintage workwear styles from the 40s and 50s, those Japanese brands truly obsessed with recreating the perfect jeans from that era went so far as to reweave selvedge denim in new and interesting ways.