Hand Made v Mass Produced?
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Industrial production will see the shirt made in production lines of 20-26 machines/positions/operators (after cutting and bundling).
There is a high degree of devision of labour, planing and line balancing in order to optimise quality, output and cost.The real distinction here is that the entire shirt is done by 1 person with a limited number of tools/less specialized and a few purely manual operations.
It's is certainly not "hand sewn", but the term "hand made" is not entirely wrong as it applies to industrial production as well as 1-man-workshops…
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'Schirt' ordered! Excited to see the results.
Boom
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@khaki8 is right and wrong technically;
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/handmade
hand·made adjective \ˈhan(d)-ˈmād
: made with the hands or by using hand toolsNieten made it all with his hands & machine. It was his hands holding it, not a machine/press.
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yes, good question: what's 'hand made' and what's not.
to craft a product by hand using some tools (yeah, I do! it is an 60 years old single needle electric machine, doing straight and zigzag stitching) is 'hand made' in my eyes.
but maybe other definitions possible.however, this is a project to have great fun, and that's what it should be in the future!
@matt: thank you, two handful of different fabrics in stock atm.
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Ok. I think we understand how you feel about the term 'hand made' but I suggest starting a new thread to discuss it rather than filling up this thread (a Schmidt brand thread) with discussion and debate.
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Any further discussion seems a moot point that is otherwise shitting up a good thread IMO.
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I was curious to hear what everyone would have to say. I see the words handmade everywhere now. The most recent was at Five Guys….yes the burger place...they say "hand spun" milkshakes. This means someone puts the ingredients in the metal container and puts in on the blender...a machine. According to this definition everything is handmade as long as someone touches it.
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Would you even want a shirt to be hand sewn? I don't see the advantage.
With saddle stitching a wallet or belt, I do see the advantage.
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Right… It's a rabbit hole, particularly if you encompass your supplies into the definition. If you want to get into picking, spinning, and looming cotton, or raising, killing, skinning, tanning, and clicking beasts, etc. Even leather artisans are using hand tools, no matter how "hand made" their stuff is.
I guess my useful clarifying question is: "was the maker's hand on the product throughout construction?"
Clearly yes with Schmidt.
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Handmade basically means that it is not automated.
Iron Heart jeans are handmade, Gustin jeans are handmade, Levis jeans are handmade. In fact, I think most clothing is still handmade… robotics and complete automation = not handmade. Some clothing is more handmade than others… and some clothing is not handmade at all. I think handmade is pretty cool. I’m sure a Schmidt shirt would be amazing and so would a shirt made from handpicked heirloom cotton that is hand spun and hand-woven into cloth than hand sewn and dyed by hand with organic natural indigo. Gandhi-style! I have actually been looking for something like that from India or something where that is still done, but alas the shirts always seem too long…
