The Greatest Outdoor Gear
How do you make the greatest outdoor gear? We went to Empire Canvas Works' Kevin Kinney to find out. If the quality of Kevin's work is any indication, the recipe is clear. Start with a passion seeded by stitching together a down vest from a frostline kit at 12 years old. Add some years of labor over piecework, learning first-hand what it takes to design for efficient assembly. Sprinkle in the irony that textile manufacturing jobs moving offshore lead to an offer to do R&D for a major outerwear company which recognized in Kevin an instinc...
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