What hands remember: the quiet labor of pulu

Pulu is not a flat “fabric option.” It is a compressed history of weather: wool twisted, woven tight, worn until the surface maps a life outdoors.

When AJ-NAMO cuts pulu into contemporary coats, the goal is not costume. It is translation—keeping irregular grain and warmth while clarifying shoulder, length, and how the piece moves through a city corridor.

Piecing as design method

Limited jackets often use pieced panels. The seams are not mistakes; they are the grammar of scarcity and repair culture, turned into modern structure.

On the Three Rivers runway chapter, those seams read like river maps—branching, joining, carrying memory forward.

How to wear it now

• Over a slim knit for gallery evenings
• With wide trousers for travel days
• Belted once, then left open for volume

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