@benviapiana: Ben’s Library: Manual of Work Garment Manufacture by Union Special. This is a great book and it’s pretty rare in its original state. It’s available online in PDF form and you can buy reprints too. But that paper from 1921 just smells different. Mmmmm . . . #unionspecial #sewingmachine #denim #selvedgedenim #madeinusa 🎥: @darinjmb

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fonephreak02
fonephreak :
Question. I see your jeans are like $500 ish. I find I cannot find factory made jeans that are work quality. denim is either stretchy or too light to stand up to real work. is your stuff fashion or for work?
2026-07-29 07:03:47
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skaukatt89
Skaukatt :
Scan it and put it online
2026-07-23 02:50:33
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astralnodes
AstralNodes :
Dude you should upload this to internet archive
2026-07-23 03:15:01
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dontchargeabdul
DontChargeAbdul :
Black Nike sb box in the back 2006/07ish. Well done!!
2026-09-21 21:04:39
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tiktokdentureexpert
TikTokDentureExpert :
Am I going to build a jeans factory? No. Do I want this book to memorize and think endlessly about said plans? Yes. Yes I do.
2026-07-23 13:56:20
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user2119116150663
user2119116150663 :
My Dad was a machinist for Union Special in the 1960’s in Chicago
2026-08-11 01:19:53
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taranewyorkcity
user897049895323 :
Oh god. I love this kind of documentation. Amazing.
2026-07-23 01:29:14
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taylorxindia
Taylor India :
Woahh that’s cool
2026-08-12 17:07:50
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gooner6582
gooner :
Books and resources like this still exist. They're just in Chinese now because manufacturing is dead in the West.
2026-08-08 08:40:31
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stuartskater
Xiao Chen :
I hope you find that one missing piece 🙏
2026-08-09 10:46:22
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auty.ursid
Scott 🇨🇦 Auty Ursid :
Any remarkable "forgotten wisdom" you've discovered in books like these?
2026-07-27 03:15:56
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chrischeely
Arizona rail :
Lots of railroad work clothes in the book
2026-08-16 06:22:30
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dietcokepapi
Max :
I spy the Danny supa tiger team edition sbs! That was my first pair of Nike sbs I bought from a Skateshop in middle school. Still have um! Glad you do too. I NEVER see anyone else with that model
2026-07-24 14:19:13
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scotto222
scott :
that is crazy. I wonder how many people actually read that book and setup a garment factory based on it.
2026-07-23 02:08:37
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fionacado
fionacado :
I'm never going to have a factory, but I want that book so badly 🤣
2026-07-22 21:05:51
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musterup7
MusterUp :
Hemp jeans?
2026-09-16 18:59:46
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vkng.wmn
VkngWmn :
Sewing is an art.
2026-07-26 15:29:01
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litlfrogvt
Joe Weinmunson :
Now That's What I Call Documentation!
2026-07-28 05:35:49
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user2848477283
adminnoy7tz :
Damn this man don’t play. That’s a museum
2026-07-25 01:47:54
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jim_oconnell
Jim🪼 :
What's crazy is they would figure out things like "if a sleeve takes twice as long to manufacture as the body of the garment, you would allocate twice as much factory floor space to the workers making sleeves". (I always pictured garment factories being more chaotic than this. I have a PDF of a magazine from 1915 that talked about this. I will go look for it.
2026-08-21 14:17:17
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mhroberts214
mhroberts214 :
I really did enjoy that. Thanks!
2026-07-23 12:34:26
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skinneramericangoods
SkinnerAmericanGoods :
You already know how to make garments. You don't need it anymore. You should send it to me so I can learn.
2026-07-23 17:47:08
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frangelicana_banana
Frangelicana 🇦🇺 :
Your posts are making me think I should have a go on my (Great) Aunty May's old Singer. It's sad to think it's been sitting idle since she last used it sometime in the 1970s. She lost her sight years before dying at 94yo in 1989.
2026-07-23 08:46:49
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biskino
biskino :
So many craftspeople - writers, editors, photographers, illustrators, typesetters, printing press operators, book binders who learned skills that were passed down and refined through centuries of publishing, and now it’s on the brink of extinction. Very sad.
2026-07-23 05:30:09
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user9812861437190
jbj2110 :
Have you thought about 3D printing the piece you are missing?
2026-07-23 10:57:20
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