G-1000^®

After redesigning backpacks and tents, 24-year-old Åke Nordin knew he could design outdoor clothing. Borrowing his grandfather’s tailor scissors and mother’s sewing machine he prototyped a jacket and pants using the fabric from a tent.

G-1000 fabric, now engineered for clothing, is a 65% cotton and 35% polyester in a tightly woven configuration treated with Greenland Wax, a special formula of paraffin and beeswax made by a small family in the north of Sweden. The fabric swells when damp, delivering wind and water resistance the worse the weather gets.

Today there are all sorts of over-engineered textiles used to make equipment -- many of which try to mimic the properties of G-1000^® -- but we think the original is still the best.