#3192 13.5oz Japanese Indigo/Indigo WABASH White Selvage Work Shirt (OPSTK) Size:3XL the striped engineer cap remains
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
the striped engineer cap remains part of the uniform of American train drivers
We added the Timber Brown 12oz
Weighing in at a solid 12oz with a plain weave
Woven on traditional narrow shuttle looms reminiscent of the 1930s
constructed from 10oz Mount Vernon Mills Hickory stripe and crafted in the great state of Texas using the finest American-made fabric
#3192 13.5oz Japanese Indigo/Indigo WABASH White Selvage Work Shirt (OPSTK) Size:3XL the striped engineer cap remainsThis is a beautiful Japanese Indigo stripe that is reminiscences of a true Wabash, but better. Wabash looks like quite a formal fabric, but in fact it was commonly used for work wear from the early 1800s through to the early 1900s, very often as uniforms for the massive US railroads work force. Finding out a lot about Wabash is very difficult, but we believe there were 2 ways in which the dots were originally applied to the base fabric: 1) the pattern