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Jämä Blanket Shirt. Field Gray of Stalingrad

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Jämä Blanket Shirt

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A proper bushcrafty Blanket Shirt! Here's a primitive low-tech garment where the superior, natural qualities of wool combined with simple and clever details make for a very functional outdoors jacket. These are made from military surplus wool blankets and other interesting materials!

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What's this bushcraft all about? In a nutshell, it's camping or hiking without modern cheating devices like Gore-Tex, gas stoves, or GPS.

The idea of the Blanket Shirt stems from very old outdoor garments. Wool jackets with this basic form have been used from around the middle ages. In more recent times, these have gained popularity among traditionalists.

A bag of old tricks

The Jämä Blanket Shirt is a simple and functional garment that doesn't throw that good and proper old stuff away. These were good back in the days and not the least bit worse in the days to come. We didn't reinvent the wheel, just made our variation of it with practical features.

The chest pocket is large and positioned a bit higher up on the chest as not to interfere with backpack hip belts or equipment belts worn over the shirt. Great for storage or warming your cold fingers. Inside the pocket is a smaller pocket, sewn onto the body side of the shirt. This little flat pocket is intended to safely store any important valuables such as mobile phones. Access slits on the sides to make rummaging through your trouser pockets or accessing equipment on your trouser belt easier.

The hood offers protection from wind and rain and keeps your head warm, an obvious necessity if there ever was one. The hem is way longer on the back, this will keep the crack of your arse covered in any squatting position and it also offers simple protection from wet or cold surfaces when sitting. Unbemazing! From the end of 2020 onwards, the hood is less of a cultist model and more functional.

Raglan sleeves, these are a really neat thing! No seams anywhere on top of the shoulders mean no chafing when carrying backpacks. Mobility of the arms is better as well.

Materials and variations

These are made from proper quality military surplus blankets and other materials, depending on what we can source. This means that prices will vary, some stuff is more expensive, some cheaper.

When using surplus blankets, one blanket shirt may be sewn together from slightly different shades of the same material. We try to keep the differences reasonable but will not throw away otherwise good blankets because of this variation.

You can see the latest materials below, and the older materials (possibly seen in product pictures) can be studied by expanding the box. Some of these might still be available.

Luxury Gray

This 335 g/m² wool fabric is 75% wool, 20% polyamide, and, 5% kashmir.

Materials of Blanket Shirts past

Autumn Night Blue: Somewhat lighter and easier-draping 100% wool from one of our surplus suppliers. If earlier variations have felt a bit stiff, give this one a go. Weight 415 g/m². The material shows wrinkles rather easily. If desired, you can hang the garment in the bathroom after taking a shower: the weight of the shirt together with humidity takes care of wrinkles.

Wolf Gray: High-quality 100% wool from one of our surplus suppliers. Weight 520 g/m², soft but stout material with a comfortable feel.

Troll Brown and Almost Black: This fabric is from Italy. This leftover batch of fabric had been left unused and without a home so we decided to turn them into blanket shirts! The fabric is on the heavier side (650g/m²), nicely soft and airy. It has 20% of polyamide to strengthen the structure and the rest, 80%, is wool.

Stone Gray: This is 100% wool (630g/m²). It comes from the warehouse of one of our surplus providers. This East German wool is such a lovely thick and stiff fabric and was originally used for greatcoats. Perfect for winter use. In case you aren’t sure which size to get, get a bigger one of these. You will get it on without Irish jigs and Finnish cursing.

Alpen Gray: This fabric is 100% wool (430 g/m²). It comes from the warehouse of one of our surplus providers and the fabric is scavenged from here and there. Some are surplus from government auctions, some surplus from fabric manufacturers, and some surplus from the supplier’s own productions. It is a bit of everything.

Field Gray of Stalingrad: This fabric is 100% wool. It comes from the warehouse of one of our surplus providers. They said that some of it came from government auctions, some from manufacturers of fabric, and some from their own productions. So, it is a bit of everything. Weight 435g/m².

Italian wool fabric: This fabric is from an Italian fabric maker. This leftover batch of fabric had been left unused and without a home so we decided to turn them into blanket shirts! The fabric is on the heavier side (650g/m²), nicely soft and airy. It has 20% of polyamide to strengthen the structure and the rest, 80%, is wool. The following colors are made out of this fabric:

Charcoal
Noble Crimson (Notice: with Noble Crimson the smoothness of the fabric may vary between parts of the shirt. For example, sleeves might be more fuzzier while the back parts are smoother.)
Field Gray of Normandy

German wool fabric: We were able to source some prime-quality 100% wool, lighter weight and considerably more draping compared to actual blankets:

Sooty Black, 390 g/m²
Forest Green, 345 g/m²

Finnish wool: This is the stuff used in the Finnish army M/65 series of field clothing. Its strong qualities are a large wool content and the fact that it really is meant for clothes, so it's more durable compared to cut-up blankets. Weight: 550 g/m²

JNA: These former Yugoslavian army blankets are nice quality, coarse but dense. Judging from our burn tests we guess these are 100% wool, but naturally we can´t be 100% sure so we´re not promising anything. The color is a nice ghastly brownish-greenish gray.

Polish: Made from Polish army grey blankets. These Polish blankets are a little, tiny bit thicker than most blankets (i.e. very thick). Our burn tests show that these are either 100% wool or a very, very wool-heavy mix (90/10 wool/polyester for example).

H.R. Co: We have no idea about the actual origin of these, the only clue is a tag saying "H.R. Co Wool Rich Blanket" which appears to have been added later. The special thing is that the material is more like "normal" fabric, thinner and much denser, almost like if a standard blanket would have been flattened by a steam roller. This makes these shirts feel a bit less cumbersome. Our guess is that the material is 90% wool.
These cost a little bit more than the other models due to the fact that the hem and sleeves have all been finished by folding and stitching them, as opposed to most other blankets that come with their edges finished, to begin with. The color may rub off onto other clothing, so don´t wear your fanciest silk dress-shirt underneath!

Size info

Comes in three sizes with a loose fit. At each size, you'll see a recommended user height and chest circumference. Understand, that the fit is not like a parade dress or in any other way or form a socially normative choice.

The main thing to consider is the chest circumference, as a too-small shirt will be difficult to pull over your head. The length is generous and if the sleeves overshoot your hands, just fold them for a tailored fit.

The model with the sharp gaze and paintbrush beard is 178 cm tall with a 95 cm chest (5' 10" and 37.4"), wearing a size Small with a couple of shirts underneath. The septum-pierced model trying to look gentle is 188 cm tall with a 96 cm chest (6' 2" and 37.8"), also wearing a size Small.

Below are more detailed charts of the garment measurements as follows: chest width (pit to pit), front length from the collar to the hem, center back length from the bottom of the hood to the hem, sleeve length from the center of the neck to the cuff, and sleeve length from the armpit to the cuff. The tolerance is about 1 cm (0.4") either way.

Size chart (metric units)

Size	Chest width	Front length	Back length	Sleeve from neck	Sleeve from pit
Small	59,0 cm	69,0 cm	90,5 cm	89,0 cm	55,5 cm
X-Large	69,0 cm	71,5 cm	92,5 cm	90,0 cm	55,5 cm
3X-Large	75,0 cm	72,0 cm	93,0 cm	92,0 cm	55,5 cm

Size chart (freedom units)

Size	Chest width	Front length	Back length	Sleeve from neck	Sleeve from pit
Small	23.2"	27.2"	35.6"	35.0"	21.9"
X-Large	27.2"	28.3"	36.4"	35.4"	21.9"
3X-Large	29.5"	28.4"	36.6"	36.2"	21.9"

Jämä is upcycled surplus

Jämä is a Finnish word meaning leftovers or scraps. It’s also one of our house brands for equipment made from recycled or surplus materials. From time to time we accumulate stuff that doesn't sell well but is made out of outstanding materials. We've also got several capable seamstresses here, and the equation is pretty clear: cut that useless stuff apart and sew it back together to create something useful.

Because Finnish labor is one of the most expensive in the world, these are very simple, practical and rugged in design. Our development and prototype production remains in-house while most of the production is outsourced to Turku and other cities - still within Finland. Simplicity means strength: the fewer parts there are, the smaller the chance of breaking anything. Read more about Jämä.

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