Nylon Weaves I Adore
I. Arc'teryx Terratex
The desire of a proletariat is a vanguard of technology. The materialists at Veilance hear him and do not listen. They pilfered this weave from a hiking catalog and convinced it to be fashion. Seam-taped and hand-felled.
Plain weave is perfectly balanced, so why crinkle? Each round in the tumbler releases its elastane core. A shell of nylon glides and writhes and the surface puckers to reveal what a loom began, the crumb of a croissant remembering its folds.
126gsm, 94% nylon / 6% elastane, balanced plain weave taffeta, Taiwan
II. Outlier Workcloth
The highest accomplishment of a pair of pants is to be forgotten. Consider this generalization of amnesia in armor bonded to fleece.
Dense and matte exterior, denim-like but more uniform, as though denim had been raised in Switzerland and taught better manners. Into this shell is grafted loops of terry, essence of sweatpant.
One faces world, other skin, neither announces.
275gsm, 82% nylon / 16% polyester / 2% elastane, doubleweave nylon canvas / brushed nylon-polyester, Schoeller (Switzerland)
III. Klättermusen Cutan
WATERPROOF/BREATHABLE: faith of the Gore-Tex Empire and its gorpcore zealot.
WATERPROOF/BREATHABLE/STIFF: realization of Teflon sandwich in sartorial application.
WATERPROOF/BREATHABLE/SOFT: equally impervious hydrophile, more human than laminate carapace. That lost in breathability repaid in silence.
103gsm, 3 layer, nylon face / monolithic hydrophilic polyurethane membrane / knit nylon backer, BASF (Germany)