Keep your powder dry

Archival maps, historic type and maritime lore, brought aboard heavyweight cotton: cannons, galleys, ships, sea creatures and the waters they sailed.

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Seven rooms aboard

Every shirt belongs to a part of the ship: the chart room, the powder room, the galley, the print shop, the ships themselves, the creatures alongside and the watch on deck.
Three shirts from The Chart Room: North of Known in black, The Gulf Stream in true navy and St. Augustine in white

The Chart Room

Three shirts from The Powder Room: Loose Cannon in khaki, Keep Your Powder Dry in black and Powder Monkey in blue spruce

The Powder Room

Three shirts from The Galley: Splice the Mainbrace in brick, Black Coffee, Rough Seas in ivory and Oysters in Every Style in grey

The Galley

Three shirts from The Print Shop: Broadside in khaki, Ink & Iron in black and Bill of Lading in ivory

The Print Shop

Three shirts from Ships: Fair Winds in true navy, The Flagship in black and Steam Packet Line in brick

Ships

Three shirts from Sea Life: Thar She Blows in blue spruce, Dockside Social Club in khaki and Slow Ahead in white

Sea Life

Three shirts from Watch & Weather: Blowing a Gale in white, Dead Reckoning in true navy and Tide & Time in black

Watch & Weather

A short film

Leave an impression.

A short film. The scenes are imagined; the engravings are real.

An 1832 hand press, the kind every picture on these shirts was first printed on. Printed from the 1800s to today.

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The Powder Room

Cannons, powder and the rules that kept a wooden ship from blowing itself up.
Galley & Gunpowder Seal T-Shirt in Ivory

Galley & Gunpowder Seal T-Shirt

Galley & Gunpowder Seal T-Shirt
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Two rooms that could sink a ship

A wooden warship carried fire in the galley and gunpowder in the magazine, and kept them well apart. Galley & Gunpowder is named for those two rooms, and for the printer’s galley that holds the type.

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The Galley

Rum, tea, coffee, oysters and the cook who kept the ship’s fire burning.
Splice the Mainbrace T-Shirt in Brick

Splice the Mainbrace T-Shirt

Splice the Mainbrace T-Shirt
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Every line has a history

Our engraved shirts start with a numbered cut from a nineteenth-century type foundry: a field gun from Boston in 1889, a walrus from Baltimore in 1832. The specimen book shows all 31, with the page each was printed on.

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Letters from the galley

The stories behind the engravings, once a month

Where each picture on our shirts came from, what the newspapers of the day were printing, and new designs as they reach the shop. No more than one letter a month.

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Sea Life

A fish, a walrus, a whale, a pelican and a turtle.
The One That Got Away T-Shirt in Khaki

The One That Got Away T-Shirt

The One That Got Away T-Shirt
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The campaign

Seven shirts, seven short films

Twelve seconds each, with sound. Press a poster to watch.

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Keep your powder dry · Fair winds and following seas · Splice the mainbrace · Batten down the hatches · Slow ahead · Mind the shoals · Beat to quarters ·