The Odyssey Public domain
Forgotten Island Premium T-shirt
El telar de Penélope · Unisex premium cotton T-shirt, 142 gsm
32.95 €
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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 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
- 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 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 telar de Penélope» 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 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.
«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.
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Appears in
- — Forgotten Island Film
- — The Odyssey Film