Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo / President and Representative Director: Satoshi Shimizu), which develops MUJI products, will sequentially launch the "Men's T-Shirt Knitted Using Traditional Methods, Crew Neck Short Sleeve" featuring a moderate thickness, texture, and softness on July 6 (Mon), and the "Men's T-Shirt Knitted Using Traditional Methods, Crew Neck Long Sleeve" on August 24 (Mon). These will be available at MUJI stores, primarily large stores, and online. Ryohin Keikaku aims to provide products and services that enrich and organize daily life, based on the "value that simplicity is not inferior to luxury," toward the realization of "pleasant living and society." This product is based on the "Tenjiku T-shirt Knitted Using Traditional Methods" that has been popular in MUJI Labo, and will be launched as part of the regular line. We have reviewed the fit and updated it to a T-shirt that is easy to use every day. In an era of mass production and mass consumption that pursues efficiency, knitting machines that take time to knit like this are becoming increasingly rare each year, but they have the characteristic of producing a soft texture by knitting carefully. This product utilizes a loopwheel knitting machine, which is an old type of knitting machine. By knitting slowly without putting extra stress on the yarn, a soft texture like it contains air is achieved. MUJI will continue to value manufacturing that is close to everyday life, paying attention to methods and backgrounds that are being lost in modernization. ■ Loopwheel Knitting Machine The traditional loopwheel knitting machine is a rare machine that is now hardly found in the world or in Japan. It is a mechanism where a disc-shaped device with needles attached to a cylinder rotates, and the fabric is formed. This rotating disc-shaped device is the loopwheel. It is also called a winding knitting machine because it knits while winding upwards from the bottom. Knitting while winding reduces the