We write three letters a year. One when an issue opens. One when it closes. One in the middle — usually about a material that is misbehaving in the workshop.
04 — April
The first issue was drawn for a hundred people we did not know. We made it anyway. The hoodie took the longest — fourteen weight tests, six dye runs. The bone tee was almost simple, which is the hardest place to land.
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We paint the cardholder edge in three passes of oxide red. The first pass is to seal the leather. The second is to give the line its weight. The third is for the person we will never meet — the second owner — so the edge holds its color for them, too.
Read note →05 — May
Issue 001 closed in nine days. We will not produce a second run. That is the contract. Thank you to the hundred who took the hoodie, the two hundred who took the tee, the hundred-and-fifty caps, and the eighty cardholders — each now in someone's keeping.
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