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Forgotten Island Mug

El telar de Penélope · Ceramic mug, 325 or 443 ml

El telar de Penélope, ceramic mug in black

26.95 €

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

Inside colour and size

Inside colour black

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It is printed in the European Union, it does not come from outside: it arrives with no customs and no import charges. Delivery times measured against the printer on 19 August 2026.

More designs from Forgotten Island

4 designs for Forgotten Island, on the same mug and at the same price.

El arco de Odiseo El arco de Odiseo El telar de Penélope El telar de Penélope Ítaca Ítaca Polifemo Polifemo

Sublimation-printed on Taza de cerámica con interior de color, 325 ml (11 oz) and 443 ml (15 oz).

The garment

Model
Taza de cerámica con interior de color
Composition
Ceramic, glossy finish
Capacity
325 ml (11 oz) and 443 ml (15 oz)
Cut
White outside; the rim, the handle and the inside are coloured
Printing
Sublimation, wrap-around print

Data from the Printful spec sheet (Taza de cerámica con interior de color), 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
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What this mug is like

Glossy ceramic, white on the outside, with the rim, the handle and the inside in colour. There are two sizes: 325 ml, the classic breakfast mug, and 443 ml, the one for broth or for anyone who does not want to get up for a refill. It is the only object in the catalogue you look at from close up and at leisure: thirty centimetres from your face, every day, while you wait for it to cool.

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The print is done by sublimation and goes all the way round the piece. The ink goes into the material instead of sitting on top of it, so it has neither the relief nor the edge of a transfer. And because the drawing wraps, there is no good side and empty side: it makes no difference which hand you pick it up with, and no difference how it ends up on the shelf.

It is the cheapest piece in the catalogue and the one that best stands up to daily use, so it is usually the first to come into the house: plenty of people try a design out here before wearing it. About the dishwasher and the microwave we say nothing, and that is not an oversight: the Printful API does not publish that figure in any field of the product, and we are not going to promise on our own account what a piece we do not manufacture can take.

«El telar de Penélope» is also on t-shirt, 23.95 € · 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.

The warp goes all the way round and the clay weights hang along the whole bottom edge, so the mug becomes the loom: the thread goes in on one side and comes out on the other with no seam. It is the object in the catalogue that gets picked up and put down most times a day, which, for a drawing about weaving and unweaving, is not a bad coincidence.

«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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Sizes: measurements, where each one is made and what it costs

Measurements of the item in centimetres, as published by the factory itself.

Measurements in centimetres, where it is made and the price of each size
Size AltoDiámetro Made in Price
15 oz 11,9 8,5 the EU 28.95 €
11 oz 9,6 8,3 Spain 26.95 €

The larger formats 15 oz cost more because they cost the printer more: we would rather say so here and stock them than not have them.

«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?
Clay weights. It is a warp-weighted vertical loom, the one Aegean archaeology documents, and they are what keeps the warp taut. Without those weights the device would be neither Greek nor ancient: it would be a modern frame with threads hanging off it.
Does the drawing wear off with use?
The print is done by sublimation —Printful's spec sheet says so—: the ink goes into the material instead of sitting on top of it, so it has no relief and no edge to lift. What we cannot tell you is how much rubbing, dishwashing or microwaving it takes: the manufacturer publishes none of those figures and we would rather not make them up.
Which size do I take, 325 or 443 ml?
325 ml is the ordinary breakfast mug. 443 ml feels noticeably bigger and is the one for broth, a long tea or an after-lunch coffee. The price of each size is in the table above, not in the cart.
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.
Why do some formats cost more?
Because they cost the printer more. The price of each format is in the table above, not in the cart.
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 telar de Penélope»?
«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. 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.

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