Grandma Knows Best Orca Heavyweight Tee · Big Print

It’s not an orca. It’s 650 salmon.

An orca drawn in 650 salmon, for the resident orca families that older females lead to the fish, printed big on the front with no words. Every salmon in it is its own colour, so the whole orca shimmers.

The motto stays off the shirt, here with its footnote: Grandma Knows Best.¹

¹ Post-menopausal resident orcas lead their families to salmon, above all in lean years, and grandcalves die more often after their grandmother dies. Brent et al., 2015; Nattrass et al., 2019

Fig. 29 in The Small Print, Deep Planet’s series of animals drawn from their own true stories. For the grandmother who always knows where the good food is.

About the print

• The drawing alone, 11.5 in wide, centred on the front. No motto or footnote on the shirt.
• Shimmer inks: every mark printed in its own colour, flowing along the animal, and drawn a little heavier so it reads from across the room.
• Garment-dyed, so each shirt's colour varies a little.
• Printed to order by Printful, direct to garment.

Heavyweight Tee

• Unisex Garment-Dyed Heavyweight T-Shirt, Comfort Colors 1717
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²)
• 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
• Blank product sourced from Honduras
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL