The Odyssey Public domain
Forgotten Island T-shirt
El telar de Penélope · Unisex cotton T-shirt, 150 gsm
23.95 €
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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.
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Printed on Bella + Canvas 3001 Unisex Staple, 142 g/m². The last thumbnail is the original print the design comes from.
The garment
- Model
- Bella + Canvas 3001 Unisex Staple
- Brand
- Bella + Canvas
- Composition
- 100% ring-spun combed cotton
- Weight
- 142 g/m²
- Cut
- Unisex, pre-shrunk fabric, side-seamed with shoulder-to-shoulder taping
- Printing
- Direct-to-garment (DTG), water-based inks
- Recommended care
- Wash inside out at 30 °C. Do not bleach. Do not iron over the print
Lightweight fabric: it can be slightly see-through, especially in the light colours.
Data from the Printful spec sheet (Bella + Canvas 3001 Unisex Staple), read on 19 August 2026. The care advice is ours: the manufacturer does not publish the washing label.
Where it comes from: source, motifs and legal status
- Source
- The Odyssey - Homer (8th century BC)
- Motifs
- Odysseus stringing the bow · Penelope and the loom · Telemachus · Circe · Calypso · Polyphemus / the cyclops
- Legal status
- Public domain. The design is ours; the material it starts from belongs to everyone
What this T-shirt is like
It is a Gildan 64000 Softstyle in ring-spun cotton, 150 gsm. A touch more body than the premium one and a slightly less fine hand, because the yarn is not combed: this is the everyday T-shirt, the one that goes in the wash every week without a second thought. Straight unisex cut, with shoulder-to-shoulder taping.
Read more about this 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.
Inside out, at 30 °C, no bleach, and never iron over the print.
«El telar de Penélope» is also on mug, 26.95 € · premium t-shirt, 32.95 € · poster, 32.95 € · women's t-shirt, 33.95 € · sweatshirt, 54.95 € · hoodie, 61.95 €
The drawing on «El telar de Penélope»
A warp-weighted vertical loom: the two uprights, the top beam with the shroud already woven, the warp hanging from the shed rod, the clay weights keeping it taut and the shuttle lying across it with a loose thread. The thread that was undone at night.
Where this drawing comes from
What identifies the device is the clay weights hanging at the bottom: without them the warp is not taut and this would not be a Greek loom but a modern frame.
A vertical loom is a tall, narrow drawing: on the chest it falls like a column, from the shoulder down, and that is rare on a T-shirt, where almost everything goes landscape. The advantage is that the warp is made of very fine parallel lines, and combed, ring-spun cotton keeps them apart; on a coarser knit they would close up into a grey block.
«Odyssey», books II and XIX: the cloth for Laertes, woven by day and unwoven in the dark for three years. The device is the vertical warp-weighted loom that Aegean archaeology documents, the same one painted on the Attic black-figure lekythos at the Metropolitan (c. 550-530 BC) attributed to the Amasis Painter, the most complete ancient depiction of a loom at work.
Sizes: measurements, where each one is made and what it costs
Measurements of the garment, not of your body. Take one that fits you the way you like, lay it flat and measure: the width from seam to seam below the sleeve, and the length from the highest point of the shoulder down to the hem. These are the ones the factory itself publishes, in centimetres.
| Size | Length | Width | Made in | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | 71,1 | 45,7 | Spain | 23.95 € |
| M | 73,7 | 50,8 | Spain | 23.95 € |
| L | 76,2 | 55,9 | Spain | 23.95 € |
| XL | 78,7 | 61 | Spain | 23.95 € |
| 2XL | 81,3 | 66 | Spain | 25.95 € |
| 3XL | 83,8 | 71,1 | Spain | 23.95 € |
Manufacturing tolerance: ±2 cm, as with any cotton garment.
Sizes 2XL cost more because they use more fabric and the factory charges us more for them: we would rather say so here and stock them than not have them. The regular sizes all cost the same.
«Made in» comes from the warehouse Printful declares for that exact size, not from an estimate of ours.
What you ask us before buying
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Appears in
- — Forgotten Island Film
- — The Odyssey Film
- — 2001: A Space Odyssey Film