These shuttle looms were used to make denim from the earliest days of Levi Strauss & Co. in the 1800s through the Rebel Without a Cause era, when cool cats like James Dean and Marlon Brando helped ...

Included in the auction, presumably, will be 40-some American Draper X3 shuttle looms purchased from the fabled Cone White Oak denim mill in Greensboro, North Carolina, following its closure in 2017.

We’re about to get technical, but it’s useful information. Selvedge denim is woven on an old-fashioned shuttle loom, which gently weaves together the vertical yarn (known as the warp ...

Selvedge is a type of denim that's made by old-school shuttle looms and they tend to be sturdier since the shuttle (the thing that carries the yarn back-and-forth) creates a natural edge as it moves.

For instance, the Marker Loose Fit Jeans were made with a lightweight selvedge denim woven on old-school shuttle looms, turning an already bonkers (in the best way) full-legged pair of jeans into ...

For the uninitiated, “red ears” refer to a denim fabric woven with a selvage (self-edge) finish using a Toyoda shuttle loom (the company that today makes the Lexus and Crown) from a hundred ...