Hand embroidered parrot t-shirt

A white oversized cotton tee with two parrots scarlet macaws, hand-embroidered across the chest in red, blue and gold thread. Each bird is thread-painted feather by feather by women artisans in India. It's real embroidery, not a print, so no two tees come out quite the same.

Two macaws caught mid-flight, wings spread, one on each side of the chest. The bodies are worked in scarlet that deepens and lifts the way real plumage does; the wings open out in cobalt blue, cut by a band of gold across each one. Look close at the faces — a pale stitched cheek, a black-bead eye, a small gold beak, that's where you can see it was done by hand.

It's stitched straight into our white oversized tee: 220 GSM cotton, drop shoulder, unisex, roomy without being shapeless. No patch, no transfer  you'll feel the slight raise of the thread and watch it catch the light when you move.

Each tee takes about 24 hours at the embroidery hoop. The blue-into-red blend across the wing is all in how the needle is angled, so it rewards a slow hand and can't be rushed. Set two side by side and the feathering won't match exactly  that's the maker, not a flaw.

Made the slow way in India by the women who run our embroidery table. Real thread, real hours, built to outlast the trend.