Will Climb for Snacks Ibex Heavyweight Tee · Big Print

It’s not an ibex. It’s 900 grains of salt.

A female Alpine ibex drawn in 900 grains of salt, the reason ibex climb the near-vertical wall of Italy’s Cingino Dam, printed big on the front with no words. Every grain in it is its own colour, so the whole ibex shimmers.

The motto stays off the shirt, here with its footnote: Will Climb for Snacks.¹

¹ At Italy’s Cingino Dam, Alpine ibex, mostly females and young, climb the near-vertical stone wall to lick salts that seep from it. Biancardi and Minetti, Hystrix, 2017

Fig. 21 in The Small Print, Deep Planet’s series of animals drawn from their own true stories. For the one who will go to great lengths for a snack.

Watch: ibex climbing a dam wall on Deep Planet.

About the print

• The drawing alone, 12 in tall, 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