RELIC
🇬🇧 EN

Moby-Dick Public domain

Below Premium T-shirt

El cachalote · Unisex premium cotton T-shirt, 142 gsm

El cachalote, premium cotton T-shirt in black

32.95 €

VAT included · shipping 4.29 € to

Delivery in 3-4 working days arrives between 8 and 9 October

Colour and size

Colour black

Size

Secure payment with Stripe · 14 days to return it · 3 years by guarantee

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bizum
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • PayPal
  • Klarna
  • Revolut

It is printed in the European Union, not on the other side of the world: it arrives with no customs, no import charges and no month at sea on the way. Delivery times measured against the printer on 19 August 2026.

More designs from Below

3 designs for Below, on the same premium t-shirt and at the same price.

El cachalote El cachalote El Pequod El Pequod Scrimshaw Scrimshaw

Printed on premium cotton T-shirt. The last thumbnail is the original print the design comes from.

Where it comes from: source, motifs and legal status
Source
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1851) + Jonah (the Bible)
Motifs
the sperm whale · the harpoon · the Pequod · Ahab · scrimshaw (bone engraving) · Jonah and the whale
Legal status
Public domain. The design is ours; the material it starts from belongs to everyone
The whole collection →

What this premium T-shirt is like

It is a Bella + Canvas 3001 in combed, ring-spun cotton, 142 gsm. That is fine fabric: the T-shirt you wear on its own in summer and under something the rest of the year, the one that does not bulk up under a shirt. The cut is unisex and straight, with a side seam and shoulder-to-shoulder taping, which is what keeps the neck from going wavy after ten washes.

Read more about this premium t-shirt

The drawing goes on one side only, on the chest, printed straight onto the fabric with water-based inks. It is not a vinyl stuck on top: you cannot feel it when you run your hand over it, it does not crackle when you fold it and it has no edge for it to start peeling from. In exchange the ink lives inside the cotton and ages with it, so after many washes it loses a shade of black, like any well-made printed T-shirt.

Inside out, at 30 °C, no bleach, and never iron over the print. Of the whole catalogue this is the piece that will go through the washing machine most often, and that is why it is the one that gains most from those three rules. Being a light fabric, it can be slightly sheer in white and in light colours: if you want more body, the same design is there on a sweatshirt.

«El cachalote» is also on t-shirt, 23.95 € · mug, 26.95 € · poster, 32.95 € · women's t-shirt, 33.95 € · sweatshirt, 54.95 € · hoodie, 61.95 €

The drawing on «El cachalote»

The sperm whale in profile: the square head up front, the line of the mouth running underneath it, the pectoral fin below the body, the small eye to one side and the tail spread at the other end.

Where this drawing comes from

The head takes up a third of the animal, and that is not artistic licence: that is the sperm whale's proportion. It is what tells it apart from the round-silhouetted whale everybody draws from memory.

«Moby-Dick» (Melville, 1851) fixed the way we picture a whale, and what it describes is not a right whale but a sperm whale: the vertical forehead, the narrow jaw tucked underneath and the tiny eye at one side of that wall. Melville gives chapter LXXIV to that head and to what follows from having your eyes on the sides: the animal cannot see straight ahead what is in front of it.

Where this design comes from →

What you ask us before buying

Why is its head so big?
Because that is how the sperm whale has it: the forehead takes up a third of the animal. The round-silhouetted whale almost everybody draws from memory is a different beast. Here the proportion is the animal's, not the memory's.
How does this T-shirt run?
It is a straight unisex cut, not fitted. If you like it snug, take your size; if you want it loose, go up one. The measurements in the table are of the garment laid flat, not of your body: the way to get it right is to measure a T-shirt of your own that already fits the way you want.
Does the print peel off?
There is nothing to peel off: the ink is printed straight onto the cotton, water-based, so there is no edge that can lift. What it does do over the years is lighten a touch. Washing it inside out at 30 °C is what holds that back most.
How long does it really take?
3 to 4 working days, printing and shipping included — the same lead time the rest of the site gives, because there is only one. The piece is made in the European Union, and that is where the lead time comes from. Above, over the button, you have the exact date for this one. The table below says where each size is made.
How much is shipping?
The page itself says so, above the button, before you pay and for whichever destination you pick in the dropdown. To Spain it is 4.29 €. The amount comes from the same rate the checkout charges, not from a separate list.
Can it be returned?
Yes. You have 14 days to withdraw without giving reasons — it is not a personalised product, so the right of withdrawal covers you — and 3 years of legal guarantee. If it arrives faulty or badly printed, we redo it or give you your money back. How it is made.
Where does the drawing on «El cachalote»?
«Moby-Dick» (Melville, 1851) fixed the way we picture a whale, and what it describes is not a right whale but a sperm whale: the vertical forehead, the narrow jaw tucked underneath and the tiny eye at one side of that wall. Melville gives chapter LXXIV to that head and to what follows from having your eyes on the sides: the animal cannot see straight ahead what is in front of it. It is in the public domain: the drawing is ours, the material it starts from belongs to everyone.
Who is selling?
Flexibles y Accesorios Gobe, S.L. · CIF B56727993. Prices include VAT.

You are going to like this too

Appears in

32.95 € El cachalote · premium t-shirt