Design photos

 In following up on my last entry

about the Traces Symposium,

here are a few more pictures that

I consider design ideas or perhaps

just what I seem to find more interesting.

All of these pictures were taken at

Raleigh Denim,a small jeans factory.

The ceiling was composed of approximately, they tell me,

4000 brown paper airplanes.

There was a small room where

all these heavy paper patterns

hung.

At one of the machines were

these trays of studs and other

metal parts for the jeans.

There were approximately 20 machines of all kinds in the factory.

 This picture shows a roll of heavy   

pattern paper taken from the top.

On the right is a view of a stack of

jeans showing the red thread at the

waist band.

This factory began with a small order for Barneys in 2009 and has expanded

selling jeans to many stores now.The jeans are manufactured in small runs using

vintage machines and denim from an American mill, Cone Mill's White Oak plant. I seem to be drawn to taking photos of textures and alliteration when I travel.