"Open Book On Knees" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

An open book takes up most of the picture, seen through the reader’s own eyes as it rests on two raised knees. Its pages are plain cream, and one leaf is caught halfway through its turn, standing up in a tall curve with the underside shaded in fine dots that darken to near black where the paper meets the gutter. The left hand pinches the top of that leaf between thumb and forefinger while the right thumb holds down the lower corner of the opposite page. Both hands are cream, modelled with navy cross-hatching, and the stacked page edges are ruled in thin lines so the book reads as thick and well used.

Colour comes from the clothes around it. A rust orange sleeve with heavy ribbed knit fills the left side, a mid blue sleeve with a neat ribbed cuff comes in from the right, and the two legs are split between deep navy and the same mid blue. All of it carries a grainy, woodcut-like texture, and at the foot of the spine a small stitched headband peeks out between the knees. On a heavyweight crewneck t-shirt the drawing gathers low, leaving the turning leaf to rise into bare cloth, and the lower edge breaks off in a soft ragged curve. It suits readers, booksellers and anyone who spends Sunday afternoons folded into a chair with a novel.