Embroidered T-Shirts for Your Hobby: Football, Skiing, Riding, Beach and Gardening

The easiest way to get a gift right is to stop thinking about the person and start thinking about what they do on a Sunday. Someone who plays football every week will wear a football tee. Someone who gardens will love a shirt full of plants. A generic nice shirt gets a polite thank you.

Here are the hobbies we stitch for. Pick one.

What do they love doing?

Tap a hobby. You get the tee, and a line on who it suits.

FootballSkiing and snowHorse ridingBeach tripsWildlife and safariGardeningVillage roots

Football

Match Day

Tiny footballers and balls scattered across white cotton. No club badge, so it works for any fan and never goes out of date when a player transfers.

Match Day tee

Skiing and snow

Piste

Skiers and snowboarders carving down the shirt. For the friend who goes to Gulmarg every winter, and for the one who has only ever dreamed about it.

Piste tee

Horse riding

Trail Rider

A horse and rider on the trail. For riders, ranch-film fans and anyone who grew up wanting a pony. Prefer horses running free? See the Wild Prairie Horse tee.

Trail Rider tee

Beach trips

Beach Tee

Palm trees and a coastal sunset on white cotton. Pack it for Goa, wear it on the flight back, keep wearing it until the next trip. For a smaller palm, try The Palm Tee.

Beach tee

Wildlife and safari

Savanna Summer

A giraffe among leaves. For the person with a Jim Corbett or Kenya photo album, or a phone full of zoo pictures. The whole animal collection is their natural habitat.

Savanna tee

Gardening

The Botanist

Botanical blooms in mustard, olive and sage. For the balcony gardener with forty pots and a name for each one. More plants live in our floral tees.

Botanist tee

Village roots

Village Map

A whole village landscape in thread. For the city dweller who still calls the village home, and goes back every summer.

Village Map tee

Why hobby tees are the safest gift you can buy

They prove you were paying attention. A shirt about their passion says you know how they spend their time, which is a bigger compliment than a pricey generic present.

They get worn. People wear their hobby. A football tee goes to every match watch party. A beach tee goes on every trip.

They outlast the phase. Thread does not crack or fade like print, so the shirt is still good long after a printed fan tee would be in the rag pile. Our embroidered vs printed comparison explains why.

A quick match table

Hobby not on the list?

Add a name. A custom name or birth year tee is the next best thing to a hobby tee, because it is still about them and nobody else. See our custom embroidered t-shirts, or take the three-question tee quiz on their behalf.

Buying for a man or a woman specifically? Our guides to gifts for him and gifts for her go further. Everything else is in Hand Embroidered T-Shirts.

Hand-embroidered to order on 220 GSM cotton by women artisans in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh.