Organic cotton. Natural black.

Iron 8: Black, the slow way.

The Pocket Sweatshirt and Baggy Sweats.
Soft organic cotton, hand-dipped eight times for a deep, earthy black.

Eight dips. By hand.
Lucas wears the Pocket Sweatshirt and Baggy Sweats in Iron 8, with handwritten notes about their making.
A garment is dipped by hand in an iron-vinegar dye bath.

02 / How Iron 8 is made

A little iron. A little time.

From a slow fermentation to eight careful dips.

  1. Iron scraps and palm sugar in clay bowls beside black garments.01

    Start with what is here.

    Iron scraps and palm sugar ferment in vinegar.

  2. Hands dip a garment in the iron-vinegar bath.02

    Dip by hand.

    The garment is dipped in the iron-vinegar bath.

  3. Hands wring the dyed garment above the bath.03

    Wring. Repeat eight times.

    Each garment is dipped and wrung out eight times. That is Iron 8.

  4. The garment is lifted from the bath, revealing an earthy black.04

    An earthy black.

    Lifted from the bath, the earthy black is revealed. Made in Tamil Nadu, India.

04 / Made by hand

No two are the same.

Because Iron 8 is hand-dyed, every piece has its own tone.
No two blacks are exactly alike.

Visit our stores to see and feel the colors in person.

Our Undyed Shops and Alpaca Shop have their own focus. Please contact the store to check Iron 8 availability.

Five hand-dyed Iron 8 T-shirts drying on a line, each with a slightly different black tone.

Our stores

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IOAN Venice storefront

IOAN

Venice

1121 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
USA

Open 11 - 7PM
Everyday

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IOAN San Francisco storefront

IOAN

San Francisco

528 Hayes St
San Francisco, CA 94102
USA

Open 11 - 7PM
Everyday

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IOAN UNDYED SHOP New York City storefront

IOAN UNDYED SHOP

New York City

232 Elizabeth St
New York, NY 10012
USA

Open 11 - 7PM
Everyday

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IOAN UNDYED SHOP Joshua Tree storefront

IOAN UNDYED SHOP

Joshua Tree

61675 Twentynine Palms Hwy
Joshua Tree, CA 92252
USA

Open 9 - 5PM
Everyday

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IOAN Brooklyn storefront

IOAN

Brooklyn

100 North 3rd St
Brooklyn, NY 11249
USA

Open 11 - 7PM
Everyday

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IOAN Alpaca Shop La Paz Bolivia storefront

IOAN Alpaca Shop

La Paz Bolivia

Calle Jaén 753
Zona Norte, La Paz
Bolivia

M - F 10:00 - 18:00
Sat & Sun 10:00 - 14:00

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