"Hand Holding Fanned Book" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

The thumbnail is a shade paler than the hand it belongs to, a small flat tab of light orange pressed against a cream page. From there the drawing opens out: one raised hand in burnt orange holds a navy clothbound book fanned into three wedges of pages, the thumb and index finger pinching the middle one while the remaining fingers curl under the cover to steady it. Fine dark hatching crosses the knuckles, the creases of the palm and the wrist, so the hand reads like an old engraving coloured in afterwards. On this heavyweight crewneck t-shirt the whole thing runs on a diagonal, rising from a ribbed navy knit cuff at the lower left to the tips of the pages at the upper right.

The paper is where the pen worked hardest. Each block of pages is ruled with thin parallel lines and shaded from cream to tan where the leaves bend inward toward the spine, which gives the fan real depth. The covers carry pale scratchy flecks, like cloth worn by years in a bag. A heavy navy outline holds every shape together, and the palette stays close to orange, navy and cream. It suits readers, booksellers and librarians, and makes an easy gift for anyone in a reading group.