The handwoven ramie fabric is already up into production, and we expect them to be finished by the end of this month. Early May, tops. Stay tuned for more updates from us!

We’re really excited to see how our next collection will turn out and while waiting for it to be finished, we have some time to spare for some tees in the making. We’re going to make a standard graphic tees and a special natural indigo overdyed tees later, all with a really high quality fabric selections. With these tees, we’re also going to introduce our separate new line which will expand us more from a traditional-base clothing label into a more complete mens clothing label. Hopefully the tees will be ready soon enough in our webshop for you guys to grab.

Traditional looms took most of our time and mind at present. Hand looms, dobby looms, jacquard looms, and all kind of traditional looms you can imagine of. We’ve traveled to some of the most prominent traditional weaving places in Indonesia and slowly learning how to weave things into an actual quality fabrics. The paths are rough and slow but we’re getting there! In the meantime, feast your eyes with some pics from our last “weaving” trip.

We had a mini installment at the biggest denim exhibition in South East Asia, Wall Of Fades. The idea of this installment is to give people a glance of what our workshop looks like and gibe a bit of traditional dyeing ambient with all the indigo fabrics, dyed yarn, pots, vats, etc. We also gave a bit of dyeing demonstration on last day.

We met a lot of old friends and also making new friends in the exhibition. One of our friends asks us to dye his white cons and the result is pretty satisfying!

We’d like to thanks to people from Wall Of Fades and of course thanks to all the people coming to our installments!

We try to use the best natural ingredients from our country for our garments as well as for the hardware. As for the button we use on our first collections, all come from a genuine mother of pearl shell also known as nacre, a composite material produced by some mollusks as an inner layer shell. The main characteristic of this type of shell is that they have a rainbow-like shine in their surface. This nacre material can also be found in different kind of mollusks.

We met with a shell artisan in Indonesia and bought some mother of pearl shell. Many types of mollusk can produce this kind of surface, as you can see in the pic above, they’re different kind of mollusk, but they both produce nacre.

This conch above is from Trochus family, known in Indonesia as “kerang lola” and is one of the most sought after mollusk that produce a beautiful nacre. Different from the other clam, lola usually produce a much plainer nacre and only got a bit of that rainbow shine on their surface. This results in a white shiny pearl-like buttons with just a little bit of rainbow shine hint.

As we go through the shell artisan’s workshop, there are lots of shell which can be used as an interesting hardware, which maybe we will use in our next season. The buttons we use from this artisan is a handmade button built with precision.

The collections consists of different colors that we use in our experiments, respectively indigo produce rich blue shades, archidendron which results in brown shades, the rare morinda to produce pinkish red color, and mangosteen which results in grey shades. Apart from the colorants and natural dye experiments, we also dive into the world of traditional weaving, which can be found on our indigo dyed linen product and our bandana.

This past year is all about learning for us. We learned a lot and got mentored a lot by some of the most seasoned and experienced artisan in the traditional and natural garment field. We learn to dye and most importantly, to make the dye itself from an artisan which has been in the field of natural dyeing for more than 10 years. We sneak into the world of traditional weaving and garment manufacturing through one of the oldest weaving master in the country with more than 60 years of experience in the field.

By learning from these masters in their respective fields, we hope that we can gain the best knowledge available to produce wide range of quality products, as well as maintaining and preserving traditional garment manufacturing.

In the meantime, we hope that you enjoy that we’ve come up so far.

Please stay tuned!

We’re excited to present you our website and soon our first small collection, the Experimentation, which mark the birth of Bluesville. Head on to our story section to get more insight about what all the fuss is about.

Have fun!