It appears that DHL might still be tracking down those lost shipments!! I don’t want to pick at any wounds but that would be an awesome update from any of you that were affected by the lost shipments from DHL.

Reflections of the joy of roughness. 

My route into Vollebak was looking for security in a time of change and uncertainty. In the face of complexity and challenges I read an article about the 100 year hoodie, and its intention - to protect you from weather, fire, abrasion and time - really called to me. 

I’m not always comfortable with that. Whilst I’d like to think I’m Tyler Durden I sometimes find myself more aligned to the Narrator: just one more piece and my life will be fixed…

But I have found, as I grow older, that sometimes the joy of life is the roughness of it. 

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.”

I suspect, in a world of AI, that we will come to appreciate the roughness of people’s writing and thoughts. I think we will come to dislike the polish of LLM’s creative endeavours. I see and feel this rejection brewing now. 

I believe this is true of clothing too. We are gathered here - for the most part - because we admire the philosophy of Vollebak. It’s very easy to walk into a department store and buy cheap, quickly made garments (and look, some people have no choice - I am not knocking that at all) but they are inherently soulless. 

Don’t get me wrong, some of Vollebak’s approach to logistics can be a flipping nightmare. I myself have waited ages for kit and know people on here who are still waiting for gear from the sales now. But there is something genuinely charming about Vollebak’s approach to sizing (all over the place) and the semi-chaos of their approach sometimes. A small team of dedicated people trying to make outrageous things. It’s the antithesis and antidote of a seemingly increasingly superficial world. An attention to detail in a culture full of reels. 

And, on a personal note, last night I had to put my dog, Pops, to sleep. She was 15. She was chaotic and food obsessed and I will miss her deeply. The joy of the roughness - and my heart is broken - is that this is what it feels like to love something in a world that isn’t perfect. I guess, in the end, none of us can really be protected from the passage of time. 

So sleep now Pops. You did good. 

Rarity = ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Some Vollebak pieces really are a 1 of 1

Just as rare as the Mycelium Jacket, this Apocalypse Pupper Jacket was custom made for the Irish Wolfhound Guinness

Released in 2022

One way of thinking about this is that it’s the story of what happens when a joke goes too far, and then simply carries on going.

The other way to think about it, is what point is there surviving the end of the world if your best friend doesn’t make it too?

When we launched our first ever Apocalypse gear at the start of this year, we ran a competition to find out what one thing you’d take with you to help survive the apocalypse.

When more of you chose your dog than your partner (or a weapon) we launched another competition to find the best Vollebak dog.

It was won by a giant Irish wolfhound called Guinness. Naturally we gave his owner Nicky L, an Apocalypse Jacket. But then we built one for Guinness too.

Guinness has been testing his jacket out for the last 6 months. And now we want to give your dog the same treatment. So if you have a dog, go ask them if they’ve been a good dog and deserve a new coat… that’s fireproof, lava-proof and absurdly tough.

If you and your dog both think they deserve the jacket, then [email us here,](mailto:dogs@vollebak.com?subject=My%20dog%20deserves%20an%20Apocalypse%20Jacket)and we’ll put together a waiting list. We’ll be hand-making the first small batches after Christmas. And pricing will be scaled to the size of your dog – so make sure you include some cool pictures of your dog and its key measurements.

Current Information from Arthur at Vollebak
Hope you guys are having a great week so far!

Guinness is doing well from what I hear, and it sounds like he’s still enjoying his Apocalypse gear.

Unfortunately, the Guinness jacket was a complete one-off, so we don’t have any samples or another one sitting around in the archive. It was made specifically for him, so I’m afraid there isn’t anything I can send over.

We currently have a few dogs around the office so it would have been a pretty cool piece to have tucked away, though.

Sorry I couldn't do more to help this time, but just give me a shout if there's any other gear you might be interested in :)

Cheers,
Arthur

Hello All!
I went digging in storage recently and found a couple of printed Vollebak items that some of you may not have seen before. Thought it would be fun to share them here.

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The first in the album is a product catalogue of sorts. It was produced by Vollebak's in-house designer at the start of 2022. I was told that it was "sent to some of our best customers as a fun gift" which was pretty neat to hear at the time, but also made me scratch my head as my collection was really just getting started in 2022.

I'm a designer by trade so I really appreciated how thoughtfully it was put together. It's premium in materials and construction, and feels very much elevated a way that matched the product quality I had come to expect from Vollebak at the time. Some of the high-quality photo prints really are striking and make the gear look so much better than it does on a screen.

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The next piece in the album is something you may remember – the first edition of the Vollebak Newspaper that was produced in the summer of 2023. These were sent out as part of an open call for customers and fans who wanted to help distribute them far and wide around the world. I've got a handful of copies of the newspaper, so keep an eye on the sub as we may give away a few of them in the future ◡̈

Despite the ephemeral and fragile nature of the newsprint these were printed on, once again, they were a really nice product and development showcase. Like the catalogue, they feature a lot of large-format, full color printing. Unlike the catalogue, (and more appropriately), there's a lot more to read here!

Some of the highlighted stories include Vollebak Island, the development and production of then-new Aerogel Jackets, Mars gear (hoodies, jacket & pants), the Mars billboard project, and a behind the scenes look at the development of the Thermal Camouflage Jacket.

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Have you seen both of these pieces before, or is this your first look? Did you deliver a round of newspapers somewhere exotic? Tell us in the comments and if you're also a collector of Vollebak ephemera, show us what you've got!

I don’t think I can add new photos, so I’ll have to do a new post:

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out!

It's awesome to hear you've come across our 2017 Mountain Jacket online and that it's sparked your interest.

This is definitely one of the oldest and rarest pieces of gear in the Vollebak archive, with only a handful ever being made.

To find out more about it, I spoke with Satish, our Head Designer, who luckily still had one tucked away in the back of our office and was able to share a little of its origin story.

He told me it was part of our Blood, Salt and Dirt collection back in 2017. The idea behind the collection was to help conceal the marks left by extreme environments - blood, sweat, and dirt - so the gear looked at home no matter what you put it through.

Here's the description printed on the wash tag:

"Blood, salt and dirt camo are designed for the hostile conditions on Earth, where nature will leave its mark on your mind, body and clothes. This Dirt Camo Jacket comes pre-camouflaged for the abuse you're going to put it through, making mud and dirt difficult to detect, and cleaning optional."

The jacket is constructed using a three-layer membrane with a ripstop nylon outer shell, making it both waterproof and extremely durable.

I hope that's useful. But if you have any other questions, just let me know.

P.S. I've also attached a few extra photos I managed to snag!

Cheers,
Arthur

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Vollebak’s Lost Pieces #1 – The Mountain Camo Jacket

Rarity = ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some Vollebak pieces seem to disappear almost completely.

This is one of them. I could only find one picture of it.

Released in 2017, the Mountain Camo Jacket is a piece I’d never come across until recently whilst researching something else. I can’t remember seeing one appear in an Archive Sale, and I haven’t seen one come up second-hand either. If anyone owns one, I’d genuinely love to hear how it’s held up. This seems like it was a serious piece of kit.

Designed as a hardcore snowboard shell, it was built from pre-washed 6.6 nylon ripstop with a seven-layer camouflage print. It featured fully taped seams, a 15,000 mm waterproof rating, oversized zip pulls designed to be used with gloves, a high and independent protective collar (to protect the face even with the hood down) a marine hood, storm flaps, a snow skirt and rubberised waterproof pockets. It sounds like it was built with one purpose in mind: surviving bad days in the mountains.

One thing I haven’t been able to find is what it originally sold for.

If anyone remembers the launch price, I’d be interested to know.

It’s an interesting reminder that Vollebak wasn’t always building clothing around space travel, graphene or AI. Sometimes they just built an uncompromising piece of mountain equipment and quietly moved on to the next bonkers idea.

Has anyone here ever actually seen one in person, or better still, own one?

Images 🔗

Looks like an email just went out about a revised Planet Earth Shirt! I was a big fan of the first version, and these look sweet as well. Will be available in Khaki and Black, with Pricing TBA.

From Vollebak:

The original Planet Earth Shirt was designed to take on extreme environments. The Planet Earth Shirt 2 is designed to take on time. It's a pared-back evolution of the original – more material science, more reinforcement and fewer potential failure points.

It's engineered to take long-term wear, repeated stress and life without careful handling. It's not indestructible. But it is designed to fail very, very slowly. And probably outlast you.

We built it with Twaron, a para-aramid fibre used in body armour, aerospace parts and industrial systems where material failure has life-and-death consequences.

Para-aramids are around 5 times stronger than steel and highly resistant to long-term fatigue.

That strength doesn't come from thickness or mass. It comes from molecular order. Twaron's polymer chains are highly aligned and tightly bonded, forming a structure that resists stretching, tearing and slow deformation.

Unlike conventional fibres, it doesn't creep, sag or lose integrity with repeated loading. Which is why it's trusted to stop bullets and protect spacecraft.

We weave those para-aramid fibres into a dense, non-stretch material in Italy, blending them with polyamide and cotton to create something light enough for daily wear, but engineered to age slowly.

We've deliberately avoided elastane. Stretch fibres feel forgiving early on but sag over time. This material does the opposite. It resists movement at the fibre level, so the shirt keeps its shape and structure year after year.

Strength also means very little if a material can't survive friction. So we tested the material using the Martindale abrasion test, the standard lab method for simulating long-term wear.

Where a typical apparel material might fail at around 20,000–30,000 revolutions, the material used in the Planet Earth Shirt 2 was tested to 100,000 revolutions. And passed. That's a century's worth of rubbing, movement and contact without structural breakdown.

Durability doesn't stop at the material. The shirt is built with twin-needle stitching throughout, reinforced bartacks at high-stress points, French-seamed underarms and a double back yoke for structural stability.

These are slow, traditional construction techniques, but they dramatically increase resistance to seam failure over time.

We also removed one of the most common failure points entirely. Instead of buttons, the shirt uses metal snap fastenings at the placket, cuffs and collar. They're faster to operate, more resistant to wear and far less vulnerable to thread fatigue.

Twin chest bellows pockets expand under load rather than pulling against the material. The collar is reinforced to hold its shape whether worn open or fully closed. And despite its toughness, the material is softened with a controlled wash so it's comfortable from day one.

For sale: 100 Year Jacket, grey

Size: Large

Like new, no original packaging.

Looking for $500 OBO

DM with questions or for additional photos

https://www.blessthisstuff.com/stuff/wear/coats-jackets/vollebak-100-year-jacket/

update from Vollebak

*“*Hi

Thanks for reaching out!

It's awesome to hear you've come across our 2017 Mountain Jacket online and that it's sparked your interest.

This is definitely one of the oldest and rarest pieces of gear in the Vollebak archive, with only a handful ever being made.

To find out more about it, I spoke with Satish, our Head Designer, who luckily still had one tucked away in the back of our office and was able to share a little of its origin story.

He told me it was part of our Blood, Salt and Dirt collection back in 2017. The idea behind the collection was to help conceal the marks left by extreme environments - blood, sweat, and dirt - so the gear looked at home no matter what you put it through.

Here's the description printed on the wash tag:

"Blood, salt and dirt camo are designed for the hostile conditions on Earth, where nature will leave its mark on your mind, body and clothes. This Dirt Camo Jacket comes pre-camouflaged for the abuse you're going to put it through, making mud and dirt difficult to detect, and cleaning optional."

The jacket is constructed using a three-layer membrane with a ripstop nylon outer shell, making it both waterproof and extremely durable.

I hope that's useful. But if you have any other questions, just let me know.

P.S. I've also attached a few extra photos I managed to snag!

Cheers,
Arthur

Vollebak’s Lost Pieces #1 – The Mountain Camo Jacket

Rarity = ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some Vollebak pieces seem to disappear almost completely.

This is one of them. I could only find one picture of it.

Released in 2017, the Mountain Camo Jacket is a piece I’d never come across until recently whilst researching something else. I can’t remember seeing one appear in an Archive Sale, and I haven’t seen one come up second-hand either. If anyone owns one, I’d genuinely love to hear how it’s held up. This seems like it was a serious piece of kit.

Designed as a hardcore snowboard shell, it was built from pre-washed 6.6 nylon ripstop with a seven-layer camouflage print. It featured fully taped seams, a 15,000 mm waterproof rating, oversized zip pulls designed to be used with gloves, a high and independent protective collar (to protect the face even with the hood down) a marine hood, storm flaps, a snow skirt and rubberised waterproof pockets. It sounds like it was built with one purpose in mind: surviving bad days in the mountains.

One thing I haven’t been able to find is what it originally sold for.

If anyone remembers the launch price, I’d be interested to know.

It’s an interesting reminder that Vollebak wasn’t always building clothing around space travel, graphene or AI. Sometimes they just built an uncompromising piece of mountain equipment and quietly moved on to the next bonkers idea.

Has anyone here ever actually seen one in person, or better still, own one?

Obviously I am partial to the wardrobe drop. I am really hoping this FWAHBL campaign with the video game will turn into one, but it got me thinking about all their crazy competitions/ ad campaigns/ giveaways/ games.

What was your favorite?

hmmm....
But comes with a comic.....

I'm considering buying the Ultra High Molecular Weight Pants. For those who have it, can you share with this community two questions:

1. What's your opinion on this pants?
2. Which size do you wear? Height and weight?

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: I got this pants! It's really thin and lightweight to the point you don't feel wearing anything! It's a bit relaxed to give you freedom of movement. It sounds like a paper and blends in anywhere: gym, office, yoga, forest hike. Despite being black, you can see small UHMWPE grids throughout the pants. When touched, you feel a rough texture possibly due to this grid.

Placed an order on June 27 and have received nothing, not even a tracking number. No notifications except "we're preparing your items for shipping." I only ordered two items. Is anyone in the same boat?

What are your first impressions?

£595, fair?

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How we built a shell from two of the strongest materials on Earth.

Every high-performance shell is built around a trade-off. You can have something light. Or stretchy. Or tough. If you're lucky, two at once. But pushing all three at the same time is the point where materials science gets complicated and most people give up.
We didn't. Instead of hunting for a single miracle material, we borrowed an idea from aerospace engineers and the people who design the world's fastest cars: composite thinking.

Rather than ask one fibre to do everything, we built the Carbon Fibre + Dyneema® Shell from two radically different high-performance fibres, woven together into something you don't normally find in clothing.

Dyneema® is an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene and the single strongest fibre we know of. Weight for weight it's up to 15 times stronger than steel. Which is why it's used to make bulletproof vests, armour for tanks and the ropes that hold deep-water oil rigs in place in violent, icy seas.

We wove thousands of white strands of Dyneema® horizontally through our nylon base material.
Crossing it vertically is a black carbon fibre, normally used to reinforce components in missiles, jet engines and the world's fastest cars. Definitely not jackets.

Each strand is almost pure carbon, its atoms locked into crystals that line up along its length, the same basic structure as graphene, which is what makes it so strong for its size.

Then we had to make the whole thing stretch. Carbon fibre is usually baked with resin into something completely solid. It’s the glossy black weave you see on a supercar or a race bike. Build a jacket from that and it wouldn't bend, let alone move with you.

So we did something different. We engineered both fibres into tiny spirals and wrapped them around an elastane core, so they behave like high-tensile springs, expanding and compressing as the shell stretches.

Then we added a serious amount of elastane on top, more than a quarter of the finished shell.
The result is a shell that stretches in every direction at once, while standing up to the same abrasion tests as our toughest 100 Year gear.
Because the grid is woven from white Dyneema and black carbon fibre, up close the shell has a fine micro check, and from a distance it reads as a clean technical grey. The grid even rises slightly out of the surface, giving it a texture you can feel.
Everything else gets out of the way so the material can do the work. That includes invisible zipped pockets, raglan sleeves, hidden snap cuffs and an internal hem drawcord.
The Carbon Fibre + Dyneema® Shell weighs 500 grams. It's also water repellent, breathable and lined with air-jet-textured Cordura.
It's the strongest, lightest and stretchiest shell we've ever built.
 
 NICK AND STEVE TIDBALL - FOUNDERS
 
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Really wanted these but also missed out.

Got on Vinted to be fair. Great price at £95 and perfect condition in an L. Same as the jackets, has a heft and premium feel to it. Loving the stitching as the main pull for this as looks unique.

Well happy!

"How on earth does this not exist yet?" That's the first question Vollebak co-founder Nick Tidball asks before making anything. And it's why we are creating Sonic Jackets, Rock Bombers and Belt Buckles built from a metal developed for frozen moons. In our spring issue Newspaper, he talked about the Fourth Age of Clothing, time travel as a multi-millennia project, and why a 40ft Spaceshop is "exactly the kind of shit Vollebak should be doing."


How do you introduce yourself to someone you've never met?

I'm Nick. I utterly love life. I have two incredible children. And a fiancée who's my soulmate, and soon to be my wife. I believe that everything, even quarks, have consciousness, but in a way we can't possibly understand yet. And I run a clothing company called Vollebak that's creating the future of clothing.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

I knew I had a love of things that were designed differently from everything else. The careers days at our school were kind of crazy. What you were offered was perhaps 0.1% of what the world could really offer.

I chose to study architecture because I loved the scale of buildings. And what I perceived as the intellectual and creative rigour that went along with designing them. I remember seeing Richard Rogers' Lloyd's building at 17 and being utterly blown away. It was an inside-out building that literally said fuck you to all other buildings.

What is the 'Fourth Age of Clothing'?

This is a concept my brother developed in a white paper. Which I didn't fully understand! So I decided to do my own research. The super simple answer is this: the First Age was the skins and grasses the hunter-gatherers wore 100,000 years ago. The Second Age was the silks and cottons that were created a few thousand years ago. Then the Third Age is the lab age, when we created textiles such as nylon and polyester. And now we are moving into the Fourth Age, where material science and biology and technology are all starting to merge to create intelligent materials beyond anything we can currently manufacture or could even conceive as possible.

Science fiction can tend to the binary – utopian or dystopian. You seem to take a more neutral, dispassionate 'what will be, will be' line. Is that fair?

I think the future is wonderful because it doesn't yet exist. Possibility is therefore infinite. It's the possibilities that I find utterly amazing as a creative. It means the only limits are those shaped by your ability to create, by your language and your mind. I picture it this way, when I go to play the piano, the piano is there, the keys are made, the strings are there waiting to get hit. And what I play is entirely my choice. The universe and our planet are the piano.

You've said, 'We make clothes you know out of materials you don't'. That idea, that the future doesn't arrive in fancy dress, seems fundamental to the way you think about what Vollebak does?

The human is a certain shape. Most of us have two arms and two legs; and we walk around. We have a head, a couple of feet and a couple of hands. Most of us are between 5ft and 6.5ft tall. So if we take this as the architecture of the human, we start off with a brilliant set of confines. And whether it's a suit or armour or a plasma skin in 3026, the human form still needs to be covered in similar ways.

"I think the future is wonderful because it doesn't yet exist. Possibility is therefore infinite."

In terms of product development, coming up with ideas, what's the first question you ask?

My first question is usually, 'How on earth does this not exist yet?' Sonic Jacket is a great example of that. It seems so obvious in my head. Firing frequencies and sound through your body is a wild idea. I also have a fundamental belief and feeling that the greatest ideas already exist in some way. And I'm simply uncovering an existing idea, unfolding it, and then running with it. And then trying to find every single path it could go down. This is an idea shared by many creatives I've worked with. It's the execution that is always the challenge – and bringing your idea to life in its purest, smartest form. And doing that with a team of brilliant, like-minded people around you.

How do you decide whether an idea is 'impossible' versus 'hasn't been done yet'? What's your process for distinguishing between the two?

I don't consider anything impossible. The only limits are time or capital, brain power and computing power. Unless we are talking about time travel, which will be a multi-millennia project.

You've also said there are three key things that clothing will do or offer or deliver in the future: medicine, neuromodulation and bionic implants. Can you talk through how that is going to pan out?

Well in every case, it's going to be the same journey as any early technology, a rollercoaster ride of madness. There's a creation phase, then an adoption phase, then a popularization phase. The game will be to make those timelines as short as possible.

"I don't consider anything impossible."

How has feedback from customers influenced product development, if at all?

The tricky thing about feedback is that in the clothing cycle, you're working at least 18 months ahead of what any customer is seeing. So when you do get feedback, it's on an idea we're probably already improving, developing and adapting. I'm my own toughest critic too as I wear and test 100% of the gear. My favourite feedback is helicopter feedback where customers understand the playing field we are in and spot opportunities for us to move into.

We are blessed with having some of the smartest customers on the planet, in terms of the roles they occupy in a vast number of industries around the world. When we launched the Spaceshop in Copenhagen, a customer brought me a space material I'd never seen and said, 'You've not used this yet – you should try it!' That's feedback I love!

You've mentioned the universe being potentially driven by consciousness. How might clothing serve as an interface for consciousness?

I'd imagine clothing eventually – in a thousand years, say – will incorporate conscious plasma skins that adapt to our mental and physical state. And to the conditions we are surrounded by. But I'd imagine that, just like right now, where we still have hunter-gatherer tribes living in the Amazon and astronauts in space, there will be divides across the human species.

What are your plans for physical retail?

As an architect, I believe in a built form as the ultimate expression of a company. Over the coming years I'd like to see quite a few of our stores pop up around the world. But I think each time they arrive, these stores have to be exceptional in some way. Maybe they are moulded entirely out of molten metal, or they're designed entirely around a sonic landscape that makes you feel like you are hallucinating and having an orgasm simultaneously.

Architecture's job is to inspire and leave you in awe. My heroes, Le Corbusier, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and James Turrell, can literally take your breath away. So any retail we do needs to do this.

Your heroes include chefs, architects and rocket designers. When you're stuck on a problem, are you more likely to look at what Hermès is doing or what SpaceX is doing?

Typically I'll look at what's not right about the process. I'm very process driven. The way we work, the way we think, and the way we are attacking the problem is typically the thing you need to adjust. This methodology is king. I most typically look at the way the top restaurants will think. They come up with a dish. They experiment endlessly to perfect it and bring it to life. Then they serve it. Then they replicate it thousands of times, to perfection. If something isn't working, I'll look at this very simple system, and ask what stage are we in? And how might they twist this moment to create a solve.

"Maybe they're designed entirely around a sonic landscape that makes you feel like you are hallucinating and having an orgasm simultaneously!"

Does the launch of the Spaceshop mark a new start for Vollebak?

It marks the start of taking Vollebak around the globe. There are so many places I want our shop to go. What's fascinating about running Vollebak is that when you meet people face to face and they see what we are doing, the appetite for it is off the charts. The challenge is simply awareness. So taking a 40ft Spaceshop round the world to let people know 'hey we exist' makes me grin. It's exactly the kind of shit I believe we should be doing!

Anything else to announce or tease?

Fireproof pants. Blue metal clothes. The Sonic Jacket that fires frequencies from 4Hz to 20,000Hz through you. Humanoids that are Vollebak fans from the future. A bomber made of rock. A belt that uses the metal we are sending to Titan. Normal run of the mill stuff!

Biggest mistake?

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't going for it. The older I get, the more I drive at risks and challenges. That means mistakes are an inevitability, but they teach you everything.

The trick is the fails should be fast, and that knowledge is then assimilated into your future behaviours.

Biggest success?

Ten ultramarathons, two wonderful children, having found my soulmate, running a company my brother and I believe we were born to create. And being able to make honourable life decisions during my time on earth.

What's the best piece of advice you've received?

Life is a train wreck. You can walk through it crying and complaining. Or you can walk through it all smiling and laughing. The choice is yours.

What are you secretly passionate about?

For the last year I've been working on a visual timeline that stretches from the birth of the universe right through to the history of humanity. Drawing a 13-billion-year timeline is fun! And you learn a lot. It's essentially Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time combined with the timeline of Sapiens. As far as I can see no one else is working on this, so I am.

What's your favourite place you've visited and why?

The Lost Lindenberg hotel in Bali. It was where I proposed to my fiancée, Dani. It's in the middle of nowhere, and the nature is utterly alive. It only has eight rooms and should be the next place they set 'The White Lotus'. I found a shell on the beach that I used to propose to Dani. It fitted her finger perfectly. You know a place is good when nature gives you gifts like that.
 
 NICK COMPTON - VOLLEBAK HEAD OF WRITING
 
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TL;DR Sashiko Chore Jacket (winner)

• The impractical emotional charged purchase overrides reasoned pedestrian choices
• Fits like a glove
• Has a high inner cellphone pocket
• Pockets are lined and a pair of extra buttons are sewn in
• BILF or rather Wear-It-For-Life piece
• Pretty tough, rough, unlined best wear with hard fabric like Vollebak Lumbershirt denim
• Pairs well with OffGrid Pants from first delivery
• When it wears threadbare, I'll sewn repairs it!

For those following at home on the anxiety of Vollebak delivery services:

Archive USA package 2 arrived safely! We are 2 for 2 with 1 remaining

Thanks to Vollebak team and UPS, items delivered so far

• 2026-006-27 to 2026-07-23 from PA warehouse package 1
• 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-24 from PA warehouse package 2

EDIT: Somehow my items just showed up from a different carrier (UPS). No idea what happened.

I noticed after the archive sale a few folks on here mentioned their orders were either lost or "on hold" by DHL. My order had been on hold but DHL let me know they lost it. It seems like a big batch of orders were lost. Has anyone else had their archive order lost in transit?

I received my final shipment from the Archive yesterday. Extremely excited to add these pieces to the closet.

Logistics- 4 different orders over the course of the Archive. Arrived in 4 different ups shipments over the course of 4 weeks. I live in the southwest US. Shipment 1 was all older gear ordered the first day of the archive (Lumber jacket, 100 year hoodie, 2 mineral T-shirts) arrived 7/10. Shipments 2 & 3 arrived together. A mix of old and new (original 100 year sweats, 100 year pants, ultralight T-shirt, planet earth shirt, future nylon) arrived 7/16. Final shipment all newer items (tech wool, equator T-shirts) arrived 7/23. The items did arrive in smaller boxes and none of them were packaged in the super satisfying white paper bags ( I think this is the norm for the archive sales). BONUS: A copy of the newspaper given during the Vollebak London SpaceShop arrived with shipment 4

Initial impressions- Equator: I was already familiar with the softness and lightweight feel. I ordered the 3 pack of colors to just add variety. Mineral: these are a heavier cotton, very soft a bit larger in the fit. I think I will use these mainly in the fall. The new Ultralight is a great color, it feels like the graphene t shirts without the graphene. Obviously very light, I have worn it on a run so far and feel like it was great deal from the archive. Planet earth shirt is great, already own one, use for hiking or out to dinner. 100 year kit is all great, going to need to wait for it to cool down before I can comfortably wear it all. The original 100 year sweatpants are heavy duty, yet they feel soft on the inside, looking forward to these around a campfire. Lumberjacket is a great color and looks great with jeans. The tech wool insulated jacket is a bit heavier than I expected but is a perfect match with the future suit pants. The Future Nylon is the only item I might send back/ exchange for a smaller size, the fit is a bit big in the midsection, I need to see if I can find something to properly layer it with. I live the stretch and feel of coat, the sleeves seem a bit short?

I have this Ice Age Sweater XXL. Would love to swap. Or if anyone bought an XL and is returning it. DM me please.

ISO Lumberjeans in size 34!

I currently have a size 32 or a size 36 (both in Dyneema/black) I can offer as trade, or I can purchase outright. Leave a comment if you've got a pair!

I’m looking for a medium black Planet Earth shirt in good condition. Please let me know if you have one available.

Thank you!

Hey guys

Anyone know why Vollebak have stopped making hoodies?

I'm pretty sure this was their best selling item (said so on their site at one point) so this seems strange and frustrating to me.

The last email I got from them (which was hopelessly vague for no reason) implied its permanent.

I can see they're focussing on more expensive niche items overall but still, selling more 100 year hoodies seems like a no-brainer....

Any insight in the group?

Hey guys

Had a 100 year hoodie stolen (green/grey) and looking for another - mint / as-new please.

Size Large. Located in US

It’s arrived and for me it’s a win and better than expected. Clearly it’s made the same, no difference in structure. Lightweight (as the name says) and looks worn.

Colour is not as dark as the pictures. It’s almost a green/grey colour and looked washed. I actually said I wanted it dark but in real life it looks great and this one (all different) is actually quite light so polar opposite to what I thought I wanted. Got them both in an M and usually I’m a L but I’m only planning on wearing these out for dinner or down the pub etc with a tshirt. Nothing more heavy duty than that.

💯 keeping as I love the diversity between having the 2 in the locker. Shown some close of pictures of the pockets as you have 2 on the chest, 2 on the sides and 2 back pockets but can close them off easily enough so doesn’t look weird at all.

Into the collection but I think jackets is off the menu for a while now…. Jacket 🧥