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Honeybees in Winter Crewneck

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

A honeybee crewneck sweatshirt 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: Sand

Classic-fit fleece crewneck sweatshirt, 50% cotton and 50% polyester, with a rib-knit collar. By the size chart it is about 2″ wider than the unisex tee in the same size (M: 22″ across against 20.25″) and about as long, so most people take their usual size.

Crewneck
Gildan 18000 · 50% cotton, 50% polyester
Print
Front · direct-to-garment · 6.51 × 7.82 in
Made
Blank sweatshirt made in Nicaragua. 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
  • Pre-shrunk
  • Classic fit
  • 1x1 athletic rib knit collar with spandex
  • Air-jet spun yarn with a soft feel
  • Double-needle stitched collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem
  • Due to the fabric properties, the White color variant may appear off-white rather than bright white.
  • Subtle orange hue shifts with lighting in the Orange color variant.
Fit & sizing

Classic-fit fleece crewneck sweatshirt, 50% cotton and 50% polyester, with a rib-knit collar. By the size chart it is about 2″ wider than the unisex tee in the same size (M: 22″ across against 20.25″) and about as long, so most people take their usual size.

Flat garment measurements in inches
SizeWidthLength
S2027
M2228
L2429
XL2630
2XL2831
3XL3032

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

Care

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.
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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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