Company

About
Kaneta Orimono

Kaneta Orimono manufactures natural fiber textiles, mainly made out of cotton, at our own plant.
We use shuttle looms that were made in 1965 and require solid technique as well as mechanical repair skills, but having been in business for more than seventy years, we have highly skilled and experienced craftsmen who expertly maintain our old looms while weaving fabrics that can only be woven with shuttle looms.

Kaneta's High-Density Woven Fabrics

The moment you hold Kaneta woven fabric in your hands, you will experience the unmistakable hand feel of firmly threaded fabric.
Fabrics that have a high yarn count are fine meshed and supple yet firm, and the longer one uses them, they develop a soft feel, turning into fabrics that one becomes attached to and enjoys for a long time.

Kaneta Orimono’s Focuses

Gabardine woven with ultra-hard twist yarn

By using ultra-hard twist yarn with 2,000 twists/meter, which is double the value for regular ply yarn twist for the ZZ reverse lay, a supple yet firm fabric that is wrinkle-resistant yet drapes and moves well when made into a product is achieved.
This material is representative of Kaneta woven fabrics that are made as lustrous as possible by subjecting the yarn to processes such as gas singeing, cold batch dyeing, and mercerizing.

SDGs
(Thinking about the happiness of everyone involved in the product manufacturing process)

Currently, about 50% of the fabrics produced by Kaneta Orimono are made using organic cotton. The organic cottons we use are produced though sound organic cultivation without child labor or unfair exploitation in any of the production areas.
With a few exceptions, all our products can be made using organic cotton, and Kaneta Orimono will continue to promote production using organic cotton.

Tailor-made production to meet your needs

Any woven fabric (except Jacquard) can be reproduced with the expert skills of Kaneta Orimono.
We can meet customers' requests for fabrics that cannot be woven by other companies as well as for original fabrics.
Kaneta Orimono accepts small-lot production orders as small as 300 m.

Product Information

Ultra-Hard Twist Gabardine (K3671A)

High-density twill weave of 100% hard twist cotton using Kaneta 80/2, 2,000 twists/meter ultra-hard twist yarn. The moment you touch it, you will know that this is 100% cotton due to the unique feel of this product. This is the signature product of Kaneta Orimono.
* Reference price: Single-color 200-m @ 1,800 yen/m

Ultra-Hard Twist Linen Gabardine

A twill weave with 1/60 linen weft densely threaded into the ultra-hard-twist warp. The ultra-hard twist yarn and linen create an exquisite texture.

Ultra-Dense Typewriter

High-density plain weave using 350 No. 80 single yarns per inch. This high density is achieved by fine setting of the loom in millimeter units and weave design.

Hard Twist Brighton Honeycomb

Modified honeycomb weave with 100/2 hard twist yarn. This fabric achieves a knit-like texture with weaving. It is the crystallization of Kaneta's technologies.

Supima Moleskin

This is a brushed fabric that achieves both softness and thickness with an especially thick yarn spun from Supima extra-long staple cotton. It produces a superlative feel and texture.

Supima Corduroy

Since the very beginning of the company, we have woven our corduroys with specially procured Supima, further setting our corduroys apart from all the rest through our use of denser and thicker Supima compared with run-of-the-mill corduroys.

Hard twist double weave

This is a thick double weave achieved by weaving 60/2 reverse-twist hard twist yarn at a high density of nearly 300 yarns per inch. This is a rarely seen fabric that combines hard twist with significant thickness.

Our Equipment

Old-type shuttle looms

Kaneta Orimono has 22 shuttle looms, the largest number in Shizuoka Prefecture.

The handling of shuttle looms requires solid technique as well as mechanical repair skills. Having been in business for more than seventy years, we have highly skilled and experienced craftsmen who expertly maintain our old looms while weaving fabrics that can only be woven with shuttle looms.

Ultra-Hard Twist Fabrics (Hard Twist Yarn)

Combines good drape and firmness.

The fibers inside the yarn are denser than other yarn of the same count owing to the hard twist yarn, which exerts strong torsion.
The resulting fabric is firm and wrinkle-resistant. Moreover, greater weight than normal yarns is achieved, giving the fabric good drape as well as good firmness, two seemingly incompatible qualities.　

For its hard twist fabrics, Kaneta uses ultra-hard twist yarn that has been twisted more than 2,000 times per meter, which accentuates the hard twist characteristics and produces a unique texture, but because the number of twists is more than twice that of normal yarn, ultra-hard twist yarn has large untwisting power, which makes it an extremely difficult material to work with.