{"id":178,"date":"2008-01-11T07:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T07:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denimiscool.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/11\/21oz-denim-from-samurai\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:37:37","slug":"21oz-denim-from-samurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/brands\/denim-brands-international\/21oz-denim-from-samurai\/178","title":{"rendered":"21oz denim from Samurai- is it the heaviest denim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samurai-j.com\/samurai\/samurai_main.html\"><strong>Samurai<\/strong><\/a> is a famous Japanese brand and known for its innovative jeans.<br \/>\nOne of their great jeans which came out last year was the 21oz denim&#8230;<br \/>\n21 oz???????<br \/>\n<strong>Yes, whole of 21 oz !<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"bubble.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bubble.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bubble.jpg\" alt=\"bubble.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe S510XX21 model of Samurai ,with 21oz denim fabric made on Japanese wooden looms, has bettered their own previous record of 19oz denim.<br \/>\nThis is a truly amazing denim and inspite of being so heavy, it is soft in feel because of very coarse yarns used and unique weaving methods applied. Samurai, rightly calls it the &#8216;Cloth of Super Excellence&#8217;. As most of their collection, this is also Selvedge denim with Red and Gold strands .<br \/>\n<a title=\"21oz_vedged.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/21oz_vedged.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/21oz_vedged.jpg\" alt=\"21oz_vedged.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt took a lot of patience on the part of the highly skilled craftsmen to produce this fabric on the powerlooms.<br \/>\nThe Japanese denim brands continue to amaze with their products . And I think the most important ingredient in their denim is the <strong>PASSION<\/strong> with which they work on their denims.Its NOT A COMMODITY for them..<br \/>\nAnd the PRICE &#8211; A COOL USD 330\/&#8211;. <a href=\"http:\/\/blueingreensoho.com\/site\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=shop.flypage&amp;product_id=2724&amp;category_id=&amp;manufacturer_id=10&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=28\">Click here<\/a> to buy.<br \/>\n<a title=\"torn_vedge.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/torn_vedge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/torn_vedge.jpg\" alt=\"torn_vedge.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update- as <strong>dj<\/strong> correctly mentions, Iron Heart Jeans uses 22oz denim in some of its styles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samurai is a famous Japanese brand and known for its innovative jeans. One of their great jeans which came out last year was the 21oz denim&#8230; 21 oz??????? Yes, whole of 21 oz ! The S510XX21 model of Samurai ,with 21oz denim fabric made on Japanese wooden looms, has bettered their own previous record of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,4,97],"tags":[1415,48,71],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denim","category-denim-fabric-developments","category-denim-brands-international","category-denim-mills-intl","tag-denim","tag-heavy-denim","tag-samurai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}