The Odyssey Public domain
Forgotten Island Sweatshirt
Polifemo · Crew neck sweatshirt, 50% cotton
49.00 €
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It is printed in the European Union. It arrives with no customs and no import charges, and without crossing half the world on the way. Delivery times measured against the printer on 19 August 2026.
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Printed on Gildan 18000 de cuello redondo. The last thumbnail is the original print the design comes from.
The garment
- Model
- Gildan 18000 de cuello redondo
- Brand
- Gildan
- Composition
- 50% cotton, 50% polyester
- Cut
- Unisex, crew neck —no hood, no pocket—, classic fit, pre-shrunk fabric, with 1×1 ribbed collar with elastane
- Printing
- Direct-to-garment (DTG), water-based inks
- Recommended care
- Wash inside out at 30 °C. Tumble dry low
The white can look bone rather than pure white, because of the fabric.
Data from the Printful spec sheet (Gildan 18000 de cuello redondo), 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 sweatshirt is like
It is a Gildan 18000 with a crew neck: no hood, no drawstring, no pocket. It is the classic sweatshirt, the one you put on over a T-shirt and under a coat, and the only one of the three warm layers that gets through an office without looking like something you wear at home. The collar, the cuffs and the waistband are 1×1 rib with elastane, so they go back to shape when you take it off.
Read more about this sweatshirt
With no kangaroo pocket and no drawstring, the chest is clean from top to bottom. Of all the garments in the catalogue, this is the one where the drawing shows whole, with nothing in front to break it up: if the design has fine detail —a spiral, a seal, a loom—, this is where you can see it without having to blow it up.
Half cotton, half polyester: the blend is what keeps it from losing its shape after a whole winter of washes. Inside out, at 30 °C and dried on low, because strong heat is what shrinks the ribbing. It goes from S to 5XL. In white the fabric leans towards bone rather than pure white; that is the blend, not a printing fault.
«Polifemo» is also on t-shirt, 23.95 € · mug, 26.95 € · poster, 32.95 € · premium t-shirt, 32.95 € · women's t-shirt, 33.95 € · hoodie, 61.95 €
The drawing on «Polifemo»
The cyclops' head seen head on: a single eye under a brow ridge running from temple to temple, matted locks in wedges over the forehead, a broad nose and a beard resolved into parallel strands.
Where this drawing comes from
The eye sits centred over the bridge of the nose, not in the middle of the forehead. That is how the Greeks painted it, and it is what separates a cyclops from a cartoon monster.
The chest is clean from top to bottom and that is exactly what this drawing needs: the beard is worked out in parallel locks running downwards, and on the hoodie the kangaroo pocket eats them up. Not here. This is the garment where Polyphemus comes out whole, from the tangle on his forehead to the last lock.
«Odyssey», book IX. The face follows the iconographic type of the cyclops in archaic Greek pottery —the Proto-Attic skyphos from Eleusis, c. 670 BC, and the Aristonothos amphora—, where the eye sits centred over the bridge of the nose and the beard is arranged in locks.
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 | Manga | Made in | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | 68,6 | 50,8 | 85,1 | Spain | 49.00 € |
| M | 71,1 | 55,9 | 87,6 | Spain | 49.00 € |
| L | 73,7 | 61 | 90,2 | Spain | 49.00 € |
| XL | 76,2 | 66 | 92,7 | Spain | 49.00 € |
| 2XL | 78,7 | 71,1 | 95,2 | Spain | 51.00 € |
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