The Odyssey Public domain
Forgotten Island Women's T-shirt
El telar de Penélope · Women's cut T-shirt, 142 gsm
33.95 €
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It is printed in the European Union and ships to you from there. No customs, no import charges. Delivery times measured against the printer on 19 August 2026.
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Printed on Bella + Canvas 6400 Women's Relaxed, 142 g/m². The last thumbnail is the original print the design comes from.
The garment
- Model
- Bella + Canvas 6400 Women's Relaxed
- Brand
- Bella + Canvas
- Composition
- Black — 100% ring-spun combed cotton Charcoal — 52 % algodón peinado e hilado en anillos, 48 % poliéster Navy — 100% ring-spun combed cotton White — 100% ring-spun combed cotton
- Weight
- 142 g/m²
- Cut
- Women's, relaxed fit, side-seamed with a crew neck; pre-shrunk fabric
- 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
This model does not use the same fabric in every colour: the composition is given colour by colour.
Data from the Printful spec sheet (Bella + Canvas 6400 Women's Relaxed), 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 women's T-shirt is like
It is a Bella + Canvas 6400, the women's pattern from the same house as the unisex and with the same weight of 142 gsm. The fabric depends on the colour: in black, navy and white it is combed, ring-spun cotton; the anthracite is a heather and carries 52% cotton and 48% polyester, which is what gives it that speckled grey. What changes from the unisex is the cut: crew neck, narrower shoulder, side seam and a length meant to stop at the hip. It is a relaxed cut, not a fitted one; if you want it to hug, take one size down.
Read more about this women's t-shirt
The print goes straight onto the garment with water-based inks, on pre-washed fabric, exactly as on the unisex one. What is not the same is the canvas: the cut is shorter and narrower, so the same drawing takes up proportionally more chest and reads bigger than it does on the unisex T-shirt of the same design.
Inside out, at 30 °C, no bleach, and keep the iron off the print. It runs from S to 2XL. It is a fine 142 gsm knit, so in white and in light colours count on it being slightly sheer. The measurements in the table below are those of this garment laid flat, not those of the unisex pattern: the other one's do not apply.
«El telar de Penélope» is also on t-shirt, 23.95 € · mug, 26.95 € · premium t-shirt, 32.95 € · poster, 32.95 € · 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 tall drawing on a short cut runs from the collarbone to the waist: on this garment the loom takes up almost all the chest there is and the clay weights end up right at the bottom. It reads as a full-size device, whereas on the unisex —with more fabric around it— it looks more like a drawing of a device.
«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 | 64,1 | 47 | Spain | 33.95 € |
| M | 66 | 50,8 | Spain | 33.95 € |
| L | 68 | 55,9 | Spain | 33.95 € |
| XL | 69,8 | 61 | Spain | 33.95 € |
| 2XL | 71,8 | 66 | Spain | 35.95 € |
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
What are the little weights hanging along the bottom?
Is it the same T-shirt as the unisex one?
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Appears in
- — Forgotten Island Film
- — The Odyssey Film