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Two physicians tanned a buffalo hide at their wedding and made belts from it. That became what is widely called the only Native American-owned denim brand in the world.
The looms that wove America's denim went dark, then nearly left the country. A 180-year-old Georgia mill took them in, moved them four hundred miles, and turned them back on.
A man who could not protect his own product built an American factory from the trees up. Now he makes jeans at scale, in America, for the price of the imports.
A husband and wife opened a denim shop in a Nashville gas station at the bottom of a recession. Now the brand is chasing a pair of jeans grown, spun, woven, dyed, and sewn inside a four-hundred-mile circle.
The demand never left. The production very nearly did. A clear-eyed tally of where things stand, and why the looms coming home to Georgia matter.
The Census is updated continuously as our reporting confirms more of the chain.
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