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A long aisle in an old mill hung floor to ceiling with denim swatches on cards, from raw indigo to bleached, a woman hurrying away down it as a blur.

Denim & Textile Sourcing Co.

The cloth comes first

The sourcing arm of NRM Textile Lounge. Fabric, trims and new materials for every product, found, tested and costed

NRM designs the productDenim & Textile finds what it’s made of

Research

Denim & Textile reads the market and the cloth. Every fabric is weighed, washed and compared before it reaches your table.

Seen from above, denim swatches on cards laid across an oak table, from rinse to light bleach, with washed and stretched test pieces, a brass linen tester, scissors and a ruler; a hand lifts one swatch to see its back.

Source

  1. Cut lengths of denim draped over each other on pale plaster: raw indigo selvedge, mid-blue, washed light blue, black and ecru.

    Denim

    Rigid, stretch, selvedge, recycled cotton

  2. Folded non-denim wovens on pale plaster: khaki twill, olive canvas, cream poplin, oatmeal linen and rust corduroy.

    Wovens

    Twill, canvas, poplin, linen blends, cord

  3. Jeans trims on pale plaster: brass and gunmetal shank buttons and rivets, two metal zips and three cones of thread.

    Trims

    Buttons, rivets, zips, thread

  4. Plain woven labels, a tan leather patch, kraft hangtags, cotton drawcord, pocketing fabric and a paper bag on pale plaster.

    Accessories

    Labels, patches, tags, packaging

  5. Recycled blue cotton fibre, raw ecru cotton, a cone of mottled recycled yarn, a hemp swatch and undyed denim on pale plaster.

    New materials

    Recycled fibre, organic cotton, hemp

Every fabric has its papers

A fabric header: a length of mid-indigo twill denim mounted on a plain ecru card, hung from a metal bar.

Fabric technical data sheet

DT-2417 · Indigo stretch twill

Composition
98% cotton, 2% elastane
Weight
12.5 oz/yd² · 424 g/m²
Width
58/60 in
Weave
3×1 RHT twill
Shrinkage
W 1.5% · L 2%
Stretch / recovery
18% · 92%
Rubbing fastness
dry 4 · wet 3
MOQ
1,500 m
Lead time
21 days

A technical data sheet, the market price and a feasibility check for every swatch we put in front of you.

Innovate

Recycled cotton, lower-impact finishes and new trims, from mills we know.

  1. Three pairs of worn jeans folded in a pile, light to dark.

    Worn jeans

  2. A soft heap of recycled blue cotton fibre.

    Opened to fibre

  3. A cone of mottled light-indigo recycled yarn.

    Spun to yarn

  4. A folded length of new mid-indigo denim with frayed edges.

    Woven again

Deliver

Every product is costed and checked for feasibility before a sample is cut.

Seen from above on an oak table, mid-blue wide-leg jeans laid back up with the NRM label, and beside them a denim swatch, white pocketing, a brass zip, a shank button, six rivets, ochre thread, a leather patch, a hangtag and a poly bag.

Costing · style PP-L-W2

  • Denim1.35 m
  • Pocketing0.25 m
  • Zipbrass, 18 cm
  • Shank button1
  • Rivets6
  • Threadochre, 2 cones per 100
  • Back patchleather
  • Labels & tags3
  • Washmid stone

FeasibilityApproved · bulk in 75 days

In a dim mill warehouse a man in an ecru overshirt carries a roll of raw denim on his shoulder past tall racks of indigo fabric rolls, blurred by a slow shutter.

Bring us the brief We’ll find the cloth

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