The Japanese glove maker tet. returns to tokyobike’s Shoreditch store on Tabernacle Street from Friday 6 November for a pop-up running two weeks, according to the tokyobike London journal. The post, headed “tet. Pop-Up Returns”, says a selection of the brand’s best-selling designs will be in store, for adults and children.
“We’re delighted to welcome tet. back to our Shoreditch store for another pop-up, just as the days get colder,” the journal entry says. Shoppers are invited to “come by, try on a pair and find your favourite for the season ahead”.
This is a return rather than a debut. The journal calls it “another pop-up” at the Shoreditch store, and says the collaboration between the two brands was previously celebrated with a pop-up at tokyobike’s flagship store in Japan.
A glove maker from Japan’s “City of Gloves”
tet. is based in Higashikagawa, which the journal describes as Japan’s “City of Gloves”. The brand brings “more than a century of local craftsmanship” to gloves made for everyday life, the post says.
The range runs from soft cashmere and wool to windproof fleece designed with cyclists in mind. Sizes for children are part of the selection coming to Shoreditch, alongside the adult designs.
The Tabernacle Street shop sells bicycles, components and accessories, and carries a lifestyle range that includes homeware, kitchen and tableware, bath goods, stationery, books and apparel. Gloves sit in that second half of the shop as well as with the cycling kit.
Commuter gloves with touchscreen palms
The tokyobike x tet. commuter glove is the product of the tie-up. It is made from windproof ECO fleece, with touchscreen-compatible palms and what the journal calls an ergonomic fit, and is described as designed with cyclists in mind.
Anyone planning a trip around that particular glove should check stock before travelling. The journal says the latest delivery from tet. has arrived, with the tokyobike x tet. commuter gloves “returning shortly in a fresh delivery”, so they are not described as being on the shelf. The wider tet. selection is what the two-week pop-up is built around.
No prices for the pop-up range are given in the journal post.
Visiting the shop on Tabernacle Street
The store is at 87-89 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4BA, telephone +44 (0)20 7251 6842. Listed opening hours are Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 6.30pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm. No Monday hours are given, and the journal sets out no separate hours for the pop-up.
The journal does not state a closing date. “For two weeks” from Friday 6 November points to the second half of November, but anyone travelling for the final days should ring the shop or check the website rather than rely on a calculated end date.
Tabernacle Street sits within walking distance of the Old Street junction, among the independent retailers covered in the Made in Shoreditch guide to shops near Old Street station, which sets out what is still trading on foot from the junction and what has moved away. The two weeks also fall ahead of the main run of Christmas markets and late shopping in Shoreditch.
tokyobike’s London operation sells adult and children’s bicycles, among them the CS26, CS26 Ltd, Bisou, Mini Velo, Sport, Mono, Mono Bisou, Porter, Little and Paddle. The business also takes workshop bookings for maintenance and lists the Cycle to Work scheme.
The timing is set out in the journal around the colder weather, with tet.’s fleece gloves aimed at cyclists. Anyone wanting to try a pair on has the two weeks from 6 November, within the store’s normal opening hours.