The Millwheel Shirt is formed around the idea of rotational symmetry. The front chest pocket is tucked into the outward-facing button placket, as with the Butterfly Shirt, but on one side only. The under placket is sewn inwards, and the back pleat is taken out in one direction only (rather than a more usual symmetrical box pleat).
The direction of the back pleat and the front pocket line up when rotated around the centre axis of the shirt, like the blades of a mill-wheel. The sleeves are pleated into false cuffs, and the hem is finished in a gentle curve.

Acacia wood, also known as wattle, mimosa, or cutchwood, is a thorny tree native to Australia, India, and China, and has been used for thousands of years to tan leather and dye fabrics. When British settlers arrived in Australia in the mid 19th Century
they built shelters using the ancient ‘wattle and daub’ method of weaving together twigs and plastering them with mud. Because acacia was plentiful and its thin twigs were flexible, the trees were named ‘wattle’ trees.

Barley Twist Cotton Twill fabric is woven in England of ecru cotton yarn, with a spaced right hand twill broken by sections of plain weave. This weaving pattern gives a subtle effect of diagonally ribbed cords running the length of the fabric, reminiscent of 17th Century barley twist wooden furniture legs. Barley twist furniture, in turn, is named
after barley sugar, a type of boiled sweet credited to Elizabeth Pidoux, a French Benedictine Mother Superior, in 1638. Sugar was boiled with barley grain and twisted into sticks as it cooled, creating a distinctive shape.

100% Cotton

Made in England