This is the part of the process that gives SLOOM its name. Once dyed yarn arrives at the mill, it goes onto the loom — and this is where individual threads actually become cloth, warp and weft crossing thousands of times per metre until a length of fabric exists where there was only thread before.
We weave our own cloth rather than buying finished fabric from a supplier, which is unusual for a trouser brand at our size. Most brands work backward from an available roll of cloth. We work forward from a yarn we've chosen and dyed ourselves, deciding the weave structure, the density, and the finish before a single trouser pattern is cut.
Weave structure changes how a fabric behaves as much as the fibre does. A plain weave is simple and durable. A twill weave — where the weft thread passes over and under multiple warp threads in a diagonal pattern — gives more drape and a slightly textured hand-feel, which is part of why our trousers move the way they do. The density of the weave, how tightly the threads are packed, determines whether a cloth is closer to a crisp cotton poplin or a heavier, more structured twill.
Every loom run is tracked against a Lot Number, so we can trace any length of finished cloth back to the exact yarn batch and dye lot that went into it. If something needs investigating later — a colour question, a durability question — we can actually go back and check, rather than guessing.
The fabric that comes off the loom at this stage isn't finished yet. It still needs washing, finishing, and pressing before it's ready to be cut. But this is the point where SLOOM cloth exists as cloth for the first time — woven first, exactly as we say.