TENDER TYPE 402 TWO BIRDS SHIRT COTTON DROP CLOTH GREY LOGWOOD
$410.00
TENDER TYPE 402 TWO BIRDS SHIRT COTTON DROP CLOTH GREY LOGWOOD
the Two Birds Shirt creates two pockets with one line of pocket stitching.The pattern is cut with a large front panel pleated into the yoke. Once this is pressed into place, a patch pocket is sewn through all three layers of the pleat.This creates a standard hand-height patch pocket on the outside of the shirt, but its stitch lines also hold the pleat together as a deeper chest pocket, accessed vertically.
The fabric is cut sideways, with no shoulder seam, creating a soft biased shoulder which stretches out and softens as the garment wears in.The shirt is sewn with all-cotton thread and finished with dyed cotton-covered metal buttons and a Made in USA blue label.
Woven in USA from American cotton, the main customer for this fabric is Sherwin Wil- liams, a paint company founded in Ohio in 1866.The intended use is as drop-cloth, hard- wearing fabric to cover floors and furniture during interior painting.The fabric structure is a tightly woven left hand twill, which acts as a right hand twill when cross cut.
Logwood, or bloodwood, is a tree that is native to the West Indies and South America. When the ground heartwood is soaked in water it makes a blood red liquid which can be used as an indicator solution, changing colour depending on what is added to it. Used as a dye it can produce a range of colours from black and purple to a delicate fawn.
Aztec and Mayan cultures used logwood for centuries, and it was highly prized when it was first brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 15th Century. In the 1570s Elizabeth I of England ordered privateers to seize Spanish logwood cargoes, escalating hostilities between the two countries and leading, in 1588, to the sinking of the Spanish Armada.
