Archival Sample Sale

Note to end of season sale mavens: we are shipping out a batch of Archival Odds & Ends to the kind gents at French Garment Cleaners in Brooklyn.  Visit FGC at their Lafayette Avenue location to shop for Japan only Archival samples and end of season colorways.  Items available via the sale include Rolltops, Totes, Rucksacks and Flap Musettes.  Sale starts Thursday, July 25th.  If you stop by, catch and release some Herning and Engineered Garments for me.

In the year 2000

I'm loving these images from early 20th-century French cigarette cartons. Like so many things, it's sometimes a shame that the future we live in doesn't align to the visions from the past! I'm especially sad that here in Brooklyn I can't take a whale bus across the East River when I'm going into Manhattan. Time to keep dreaming.

Above: Archival Clothing's new sample maker

Archival Illustration - Huge Magazine

A few months back, the gents from Huge magazine visited Archival to photograph (on film!) our bags for a feature on Oregon manufacturers. We haven't seen the final print publication but our Huge contact, Takuhito K, just posted this preview of the new magazine cover by Illustrator Claudia Pearson. I love seeing all these rugged, made in USA goods rendered as larky line drawings and watercolors. It reminds me of the work of another favorite Archival Illustrator - and Brooklyn denizen -Ryan Blomberg, creator of our original Archival blog banner:

Archival Fieldtrip - NYC/Brooklyn

Snap views of my recent visit to NYC/Brooklyn.

Wages of Fear - best film I've seen in ages. If you live in NYC, you should be at the movies right now.

Kiosk - home of Reference Library's famous Steele tote in black.

45 rpm

Goose Barnacle - Brooklyn

Stuart & Wright

Hickorees -Brooklyn

Bridgestone MB-1 in Manhattan

Saturdays Surf NYC

Armor Lux -NYC

Barbour - NYC

At the Oak Room with Andrea Marcovicci, Syl & Sara

Archival Collaboration: Goosebarnacle x Archival Clothing Rucksack

Goosebarnacle (Brooklyn Heights)

Special edition Goosebarnacle x Archival Clothing Rucksack

In collaboration with David Alperin, we produced these special edition Archival Rucksacks. The bags are constructed of gray 22 oz waxed filter twill with all black Horween leather, black mil spec cotton webbing and blue bartacking. The rucksacks are being sold exclusively through Goosebarnacle, David's Brooklyn Heights boutique which was recently voted best menswear shop by New York magazine.

All black Horween leather

Black mil spec webbing

Blue bartacking

Same visual minimalism