The collection started with one idea, which was keeping summer with you after the season ends. Most graphic t-shirts for summer are made to be worn for a few months and put away. This one has the beach scene on the back and a clean front, so you can wear it on its own or under an open shirt well into the cooler months.

It packs easily as one of your summer vacation t-shirts, and it goes with the Everyday Shorts on days that run long and slow. For a beach t-shirt, it keeps things quiet. You see the scene only when someone is walking behind you.

See its sister piece, the Sardines & Lemon Tee.

This is a pixel art t-shirt in the literal sense. Each square in the flip-flops is a single cross stitch, so the stitches are the pixels.

The design starts as a drawing by our designer. Pixel Stitch rebuilds the stitched parts on a grid and turns them into a stitch map, with a symbol for each thread colour taken from their thread book. The collection uses four colours: blue, orange, white and a lemon yellow.

We screen print the beach scene in Karachi first, because a needle passes cleanly through a screen print where a heat transfer would tear. The artisan then sets a hoop over the flip-flops, lays dissolvable cloth printed with the stitch map on top, and works through both layers with a double thread. One wash dissolves the cloth and leaves the stitches in the cotton. Thread colour can shift slightly from one tee to the next, so no two are exactly alike.

Pixel Stitch was founded by Hasan Habib after a visit to the Prince Barkat Foundation in Gilgit, where he met women doing fine floral cross stitch with nowhere to sell it. The studio now puts that skill into modern pixel art designs and is working toward 1,000 women artisans across Pakistan. The artisans who worked on this collection are paid directly for it, and every purchase supports them.

See more of their work on the Pixel Stitch website and on Instagram at @pixelstitchco.

The tee ships with a free limited edition COZY bag in butter yellow, the same colour as the shirt. You'll also receive a thank-you video from one of the Pixel Stitch artisans.

220 GSM COZY Cotton, cut and sewn in-house in Karachi. It does not shrink.

• Machine wash inside out with similar colours
• Line dry away from direct sunlight
• Do not iron on print and embroidery
• Do not bleach
• Do not tumble dry
• Iron on reverse

• Exchanges accepted for 30 days
• No Returns
• Customer provides return shipping

Please note that there can be slight variations in the coloration of our products between different fabric compositions.

If you would like to purchase a complete set in the same colorway, we recommend buying from the same fabric collection to avoid any color discrepancy in your set.