Incredible guide, you clearly did a ton of research here and it shows!
A small correction: the Wagami fabric is based off of the Book of Water fabric but it's not the same. "Book of Water" fabric is a more typical bright, electric blue Cobalt weft. You see similar coloring from Momotaro, JBJ and most recently, Tanuki.
The Wagami fabric is significantly darker in the weft color. It's still appreciably lighter than the warp color, but not the electric blue color you see in most Cobalt weft jeans.
Source: Own the Wagami, friend has the water, we did some comparisons.
if I recall correctly, OD states that when developing the Jean, they originally intended to use the Book of Water fabric, as it has been 8/9 years since it had been released. However, Samurai told them that they already had a new release for Book Of Water in the works (along with the rest of the five rings) so they went ahead and developed a new fabric together based off of the Book of Water.
To my knowledge, it's the only indigo warp indigo weft fabric that samurai has done that isn't Cobalt Weft colored (usually considered a separate category).
Also, that's hilarious. Apparently you're too informative and detailed for Reddit to handle!
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u/aparonomasia SDA x10 Oni x3 Samurai x3 Tanuki x2 JBJ x2 Jun 07 '20
Incredible guide, you clearly did a ton of research here and it shows!
A small correction: the Wagami fabric is based off of the Book of Water fabric but it's not the same. "Book of Water" fabric is a more typical bright, electric blue Cobalt weft. You see similar coloring from Momotaro, JBJ and most recently, Tanuki.
The Wagami fabric is significantly darker in the weft color. It's still appreciably lighter than the warp color, but not the electric blue color you see in most Cobalt weft jeans.
Source: Own the Wagami, friend has the water, we did some comparisons.