RawmWare Needles Flannel Pack

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Six patchwork flannels for skate., inspired by the Needles "7 Cuts" rebuild flannel, the Japanese cut-and-sew shirt where every panel is cut from a different flannel and sewn back together into one shirt.

Find them in Tops: search "needles".

The flannels

• Needles Flannel 1: multi-plaid patchwork with a solid white collar.
• Needles Flannel 2: a second patchwork colorway with hard panel edges and a white collar.
• Needles Flannel 3: the 7-cut experiment, a different plaid on almost every panel.
• Needles Flannel 4: all-new plaids (blue/rust, plum, olive, cream), white collar, white buttons.
• Needles Flannel 5: greys and blacks only, plaid collar, white buttons.
• Needles Flannel 6: purple/black flannel down the centre, a different grey-black-red flannel on each sleeve, red/black pocket.

How it was built

• Real panels. The game's loose button-up was exported to Blender to map every panel: fronts, sleeves, cuffs, yokes, back, placket, collar and pocket. Each panel then gets its own flannel by where it sits on the body, the way a rebuild shirt is cut.
• Flannels drawn in code. Every plaid is an original pattern built from a woven twill with real warp and weft stripes, plus a little brushed-cotton noise. The plaids were tried out in sets: warm reds and navies, a Needles-style tartan mix, new colorways, greyscale, and purple and black. A hard checkerboard was tried for the purple centre and dropped because it didn't read as flannel.
• Vertical vs. horizontal cuts. Needles-style narrow vertical strips down the front were tried first. On this mesh they came out jagged, so the pack cuts along the shirt's real panel seams for clean edges.
• Collars. A solid white collar on some shirts makes the patchwork pop. Others test plaid collars.
• Buttons. The buttons are painted into the shirt's texture, so at first they picked up whatever plaid sat under them. Later builds paint them white on purpose.
• No logos. This pack is all about the cut and the fabric.

Built and tested in ReSkate Studio.

Also by RawmWare: Rawm Ware Flannel Patchwork, Rawm Ware Flannel Red, Chrome Hearts Quarter Zip Pack, Rawm Ware LS Polo, RawmWare Tee.