Rising Sun

Shear Joy

Another pair of vintage shears we dearly love and heavily use is a steel blade and iron handle Heinisch. We keep it sharp for daily cutting of heavy denim and leather. The differences between the Heinisch and the steel vintage Wilkinson shears we use intensively seem subtle but are very distinct to the user. The [...]

Caring About Shearing

Keep Your Pants On

Variety is the spice of life. Take your pick of suspenders, belt, or solo cinch back when wearing your Rising Sun Blacksmith jeans. It comes fully equipped with donut hole suspender buttons, belt loops made on our single needle black head Singer, and a fully lined cinch back. Back in the days young’uns would cut [...]

Rising Sun Featured in Rose Magazine

Rising Sun & Co. is featured in the latest issue of Rose Magazine. They call our haberdashery a ‘tintype time warp” and Mike Hodis the “doyen of denim.” We are absolutely flattered. The Rose Magazine is the features and lifestyle magazine of Pasadena Star-News, a local Pasadena paper.

Form Follows Function

Today turned out to be a pretty nice day to snap some pictures of the Rising Sun Blacksmith jeans and show off the all-copper rivets we use on them. The distinctive look is a superb example that often form follows function as the rivet makes a strong fastener that will withstand pressure due to their [...]

A Stitch in Time

Each stitch on a pair of Rising Sun Blacksmith jeans is at once meticulously researched and totally unpredictable before sewing. Everything from the stitches per inch to the sewing sequence are crucial to creating garments that invoke nostalgia and vintage workwear designs. Despite this careful thought process the stitches on each pair are unique due [...]

Continuous Fly for Continuous Wear

The continuous fly piece is one of our favorite details on the Rising Sun Blacksmith jeans. It harkens back to a time when jeans were made tough to withstand hard living. While you may not necessarily apply a miner’s stress and tools to your jeans (although Brit Eaton may) we sleep a little better knowing [...]

Rising Sun Blacksmith Jeans Overview

We have been raving on and on about our field tested Rising Sun Blacksmith jeans. It is the quintessential jean for any authentic denim lover. It is full of details that anyone passionate about denim can appreciate. From its cinch back, crotch rivets, Cone White Oak selvage denim, to the continuous one-piece fly pattern to [...]

Made With Double Pride

We have been in full production mode for the Japanese market. It is gratifying creating products for customers who genuinely appreciate the details we so painstakingly labor for. To ensure everything is done properly we do it all ourselves. If anything goes haywire we have no one else to blame. We work doubly hard to provide quality and allow ourselves to be extra proud of our work. One of our goals is to show that excellence still exists in domestic garment production.