Loop & Weft Tompkins Knit Double-V After Hood Sweatshirt (Gray) - Okayama Denim

$ 123.99

4.9 (238) In stock

LTS1012 100% Cotton Japanese Tompkins knit fabric Cotton thread sewing construction Slim fit silhouette V-gusset featured on chest and back Vintage-inspired attached hood Kangaroo pocket 4-needle flat seam construction Washed fabric (to eliminate shrinkage) Vintage-inspired ribbed cuffs (slimmer, to replicate the original) Also available in Black An iconic weave within the Loop & Weft roster, the Tompkins fleece knit is a legendary fabric produced on the Tompkins upright rotary knitting machine. Invented in the mid-1800s, the knitting machine operates at an exceptionally slow speed, and lacks the production efficiency seen from the succeeding loopwheel fabrics that followed it. With only a handful of these Tompkins knit machines still operating in Japan, the weave construction closely resembles in texture and weight to the original fabric from the 1800s. Contrary to loopwheel machines which usually knit from top to bottom at a