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Bots Don't Climb

$58

T-shirt · Unisex

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Printify renders of the actual Comfort Colors blank with our uploaded artwork. Artwork detail: LOG.

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Bots Don't Climb

A pencil study of two climber's hands held open, palms up, taped and worn, over BOTS DON'T CLIMB and FIRST ASCENT: HUMAN in chalk-worn letters. Our design, printed to order in San Jose, California, on a Comfort Colors 1717 garment-dyed tee in Pepper, a washed charcoal. Printify supplier renders and exact artwork detail shown. Our first samples are being printed now; nobody has held one yet.

Origin
Imported (made in Honduras; printed to order in San Jose, California)
Fiber
100% cotton
Size: S
1

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Within 7 to 14 business days
Shipping
$5.99 flat, on us from $75
Returns
14 days from delivery, full refund
Shipping and returns, in full
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The Story

Look at a climber's hands and you can read the season. Tape on the ring finger where a pulley complained. Calluses filed flat on Sunday night. A split tip that never quite closes before the next session.

A machine can solve a route on paper. It cannot feel a sloper go greasy in August, take the fall, and come back next Saturday anyway.

So here are two hands, held open, palms up. Hard hands in a soft moment. Under them, the plain fact, in letters that look chalked and rubbed back.

The hands were drawn with a machine's help. We think that is fair: drawing is not climbing.

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