Our Story
物語
Five chapters,
one river,
one cloth
True Origin combines heritage craftsmanship with modern manufacturing excellence. Five chapters — where we came from, what we make, and where the looms are taking us.
Founded
1968
Generations
Three
Looms
22
物語
Okayama · Japan
Chapters
年表
Fifty-eight years, told in five moves
Each decision below cost the mill volume and bought it character. Read together, they explain why the cloth behaves the way it does.
真正の起源
1968
始
01
A shed by the Seto Inland Sea
Tadao Mori buys four second-hand Toyoda looms and starts weaving work cloth for Kojima uniform makers. The mill is one room, one dye pot and a bicycle for deliveries.
1979
藍
02
The first rope-dye line
Demand for indigo work trousers outgrows hank dyeing. A six-dip rope range goes in, and the white-core yarn that defines the house handle arrives with it.
1994
耳
03
Refusing the wide loom
When the industry moves to projectile looms, the mill keeps its 30-inch shuttles. Output halves. The selvedge — and the customers who care about it — stay.
2011
水
04
Closing the water loop
A reverse-osmosis plant is built behind the dye house. Ninety-two per cent of process water now returns to production instead of the river.
Today
源
05
True Origin
Third-generation ownership, twenty-two looms, and a mill seal on every roll. Heritage method, audited supply chain, shipped to forty-one countries.
Kenji Mori · Loom shed foreman · 31 years
In their words
言葉
“A wide loom gives you metres. A shuttle loom gives you an edge you can put your name on. We chose the edge.”
Sampling
見本
Come and watch the looms run
Mill visits in Kojima are arranged monthly for development partners. Bring your pattern; we will weave against it.