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  • AI-generated image of a fictional model wearing the Honeybees in Winter Tee in Chambray, size M, at 5′4″ tall, cropped to the print.
  • AI-generated image of a fictional model wearing the Honeybees in Winter Tee in Chambray, size M, at 5′4″ tall.
  • The Honeybees in Winter Tee in Chambray.
  • The print on the chosen shirt color, at its printed size.

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Winter Quarters

Honeybees in Winter Tee

Not for sale yet. This design is a preview, so there's nothing to buy today.

A honeybee T-shirt for winter: an old hollow tree cut open under the snow, with the colony packed in a tight cluster on its combs just below the honey, and the queen inside it.

The bees in the middle keep the cluster warm by shivering their flight muscles, wings held still. In midwinter the core sits around 68°F and up; once the queen starts laying again toward late winter, they hold it near 93°F for the brood. As the weeks go by, the whole cluster eats its way up into the honey.

Color: Chambray

Relaxed, boxy heavyweight tee with dropped shoulders. Most people take their usual size; size up one for an oversized look.

Shirt
Comfort Colors 1717 · 100% ring-spun cotton · 6.1 oz · garment-dyed
Print
Front · direct-to-garment · 6.51 × 7.82 in
Made
Blank tee made in Honduras. Printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina; Coppell, Texas; or Tijuana, Mexico.

Artwork made with AI tools from my concepts, then picked and prepared for print by me. Made to order by a production partner.

Details

Why it costs more: it's a heavyweight, garment-dyed Comfort Colors 1717, and each one is printed for you after you order it, from a design of my own.

  • Garment-dyed
  • Relaxed fit
  • 7/8″ double-needle topstitched collar
  • Twill-taped neck and shoulders for extra durability
  • Double-needle armhole, sleeve, and bottom hems
Fit & sizing

Relaxed, boxy heavyweight tee with dropped shoulders. Most people take their usual size; size up one for an oversized look.

Flat garment measurements in inches
SizeWidthLength
S18.2526.62
M20.2528
L2229.37
XL2430.75
2XL2631.62
3XL27.7532.5
4XL29.7533.5

Measured flat, in inches. The real tee can measure up to 2 in off this chart.

Care

Garment-dyed, so each shirt's color varies slightly.

Colors on screen are approximate, and light inks can look slightly tinted on red or maroon shirts. A faint square around the print right out of the package is the printer's pretreatment and washes out in the first wash.

Observe a little closer.

Look for the queen near the middle of the cluster, a little longer and more golden than the workers around her. The combs were the hard part: a neat ruled grid read as wallpaper, so they were redrawn as narrow hanging sheets with uneven cells, the bees wrapped round their lower ends.

Print artwork: an old tree trunk cut open straight down, with snow on its broken top and on one bare side branch. Inside the tall hollow, lined in red-brown, several narrow combs hang from the roof, their upper parts capped gold with honey and a few bees walking on them. Over the lower part of the combs, a round cluster of many small striped bees packs tight, heads in, with a longer golden bee near its centre. At the floor of the hollow a small round knothole has snow at its lip.
Plate · Winter Quarters

The print, up close

Print artwork: an old tree trunk cut open straight down, with snow on its broken top and on one bare side branch. Inside the tall hollow, lined in red-brown, several narrow combs hang from the roof, their upper parts capped gold with honey and a few bees walking on them. Over the lower part of the combs, a round cluster of many small striped bees packs tight, heads in, with a longer golden bee near its centre. At the floor of the hollow a small round knothole has snow at its lip.

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