Does anyone know of a source for hoodies with culturally Irish iconography or references that doesn't suck like a Patty's day bobblehead from amazon?!
I feel like there is a MASSIVE opportunity for someone to hang a shingle and claim this entire sector of the market.
In fullest honesty, if @Ciaraioch made a hoodie like this, I'd likely pre-order it sight unseen and not regret it for a moment.
(Extra massive bonus points if we could yeet any refs to the US entirely. Please and thank you. )
@MadSc13ntist Love the idea, I'm a bit fussy about things being made sustainably and ethically and to do that with a one-person business for clothing is difficult - maybe could team up with someone eventually, but at the moment just a pipe-dream!
@Ciaraioch @MadSc13ntist sounds like you’ve looked into this a bit already? Ethical brick wall?
@allancavanagh @MadSc13ntist Not a brick wall but just cost and keeping stuff in stock (it'd have to be a pre-order and minimum order might be an issue) - printing them locally (in Ireland) using as sustainable a process as possible (there are companies doing this) and good quality is the goal but it's just too expensive and too much work at the moment - hopefully in the future!
@Ciaraioch @MadSc13ntist “ there are companies doing this”
Do you remember who? No worries if not, I don’t want you going off trawling emails to find out.
@allancavanagh @MadSc13ntist There are because I looked them up before for someone else, I don't have it off the top of my head though - tshirtcompany was one of them I think
@allancavanagh @MadSc13ntist Other option would be learn how to screenprint but that depends on how insane I'm feeling
@Ciaraioch @allancavanagh I suppose that was something I'd also considered myself, but I suck at art, I really like yours, and I was raised better than to steal from artists.
Like much of the my fellow idiots on this side of the pond, work like yours holds outsized meaning. Alot of it.
When other Gaeilgeoirí over here see your work ANYWHERE, we gravitate in closer. Wearing your art is perhaps THE way to say "I will fucking mame you right here and now if you say top of the morning to me".
@MadSc13ntist @allancavanagh This is such a lovely thing to read. I am honoured to inspire violence
@Ciaraioch @MadSc13ntist I did print in college I am never going near that again.