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LINES Mag Ad

  LINES Magazine is a go-to in monthly reading for locals and tourists in Bali and beyond. LINES dishes up entertaining updates on local business and profiles on local heroes and the who's who in the surf community. It is with great pleasure that Indosole received exposure in this month's issue with an ad, a contest, and a complimentary Indo sticker. Thanks to the LINES crew, our Bali Crew, graphic artist Morgan, and those that made it happen. Inside Cover - Surfer and Good Human: Teiki Ballian Indosole products can be found in these fine Bali retailers: Nusa Surf  Drifter Seminyak Single Fin Uluwatu Deus Ex Machina
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The Crazy Ones

Our goal was to create a short video piece that would encompass the landscape of San Francisco, Indosole product and our crew's rockstar lifestyle of surfing, motorcyle riding, and good fun.  By ForLove Productions  
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Batik

I have an immense passion for color and patterns of traditional textiles that originate from around the world, for me Bali is heaven. Indonesia is known for their Ikat and Batik textiles which happen to be some of my favorite, so without a doubt I wanted to incorporate these traditional textiles into our Spring/Summer 14' line. I decided to go with Batik because I felt we could have a lot of fun exploring and playing with designs and colors. So, we took our blank canvas (white organic cotton, which all our clothing will be made out of) and went to creativity city! I will break down the process simply, but it really is something you have to see or do yourself to get the full understanding and appreciation for this technique. Batik is a wax resistent form of dying that takes 7-10 days to complete. First you choose your stamp pattern, we chose 1-2 traditional and then some other fun ones that we felt fit our image/story best, then you choose your colors for the motif and background. The first dying process is for the stamp, they dye the material, let it dry in the sun, then they lay the fabric out and dip the stamp in hot melted wax and stamp the whole material. Keep in mind the stamps are about 10' x 10' and usually hand carved metal squares and they do about 8 meters of fabric at a time, so its a lengthy and tedious process that is very hands on. Then they let the wax dry, dip it into a bath of solution to take out the first dye but the dye under the wax (the pattern) remains. Then, the background is dyed, left in the sun to dry( the sun gives the dye a unique "salted" effect) and after it is dried, the fabric is dipped into boiling hot water to remove the wax, which reveals the first dye job, then they rinse it all out and hang it out to dry again. Viola, then you have Batik! Too see more or get a better understanding please watch this videoThanks for reading, Kenya
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Going going back back to Cali Cali

I have returned to California and real life but bearing lots of gifts and some rad life experiences! After spending about 3 months over in Bali and having had some of the most insane opportunities designing, sourcing, photographing and exploring I was ready to "take a step back" from it all. Living in a foreign country is such an exhilarating experience and everything is always moving so fast and theres no real comfort zone so it gets exhausting, especially when you are working and trying to create a kick ass collection! I am so happy to be home, getting back into routines and taking full advantage of everything Northern California has to offer, the list is endless and sometimes I wonder why I ever leave this place! But then you do and you realize the world is full of other awesome places, like Bali. My heart is torn between San Francisco and Bali, they really are some of the most inspiring and unique places I have lived. I haven't even gotten to the people I have met along the way, but you know who you are.. stay rad! Excited to share our new threads with you all soon, stay tuned!
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Indosole and 5 Gyres Fund Raiser

Indosole and 5 Gyres UniteTogether we are raising funds for the North Atlantic Expedition June 10-16th, 2013This expedition, seven days/six nights will depart from Bermuda and sail aboard the 72 foot Sea Dragon, ending in Newport RI. A guest crew will join the 5 Gyres team in collecting data from the ocean surface on plastic density and type, trawling 40-50 nautical miles around the clock as we head Northwestward to the final destination in Newport. The plan is to save a lot of plastic from the ocean while further educating about the effects these plastics has on our environment.Please help us in raising funds for the 5 Gyres Expedition. This is how you can help:CLICK HERE TO SHOPENTER CODE AT CHECKOUT: VOYAGE15% OF EACH PURCHASE WILL BE DONATED 
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Indosole now available in Canada

Oooh eh Indosole in Canada you say?....That’s right, thanks to our partners at HSC Collective in Montreal we have opened some doors in the north country. HSC has hand selected an assortment of surf and lifestyle boutiques in various provinces and we are really excited about this expansion.
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BLISS MAG AND ESM MEDIA HITS

Recent Press Exposure:We are honored, stoked, ecstatic, and generally pumped to have gotten these hits from two magazines which are very influential on their respective coasts. BLISSS magazine is a staple of action sports and fashion lifestyle for Southern California and Eastern Surf Mag (ESM) provides the best east coast news and surf publication without question. THANK YOU
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Try a sample

These last few weeks have been dedicated to dialing in the samples for the girls clothing, bags and accessories.  It is a tedious process that you feel like you take one step forward then one step back constantly... I'm finding out that what I draw out and envision in my head is only makes sense to me and that I wish I knew Indonesian. But once the design is nailed, I break it down to Kai (It helps to hear your ideas out loud, plus he translates it to the Tailors) then I have to factor in the what fabric to use and how that design will fit a complete stranger, then you can find me changing the design or being completely over it... I have already worked with 3 different Tailors, found a new one today and sent out some more samples, so hopefully by the end of this week we will have a set tailor and just keep making samples till we get it right! I had no idea it would be this difficult, but that feeling of when you receive a physical sample of something you have been staring at on paper or working up in your head is pretty awesome! Getting eager to have finished products especially since the clock is ticking, only one more month here...
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