Minimalist & Line-Art Cat Apparel

Cat designs that are mostly the space around them.

A minimalist cat shirt is easy to get wrong: shrink an illustration, drop it on the chest, call it clean. The pieces here start from the other end. Each cat is built out of line and interval: a sitting cat traced by one continuous green line, a cat face made of rings that tighten around two eyes, a cat head that grows out of a plain circle in twenty-seven steps. A lot of unprinted cloth is left alone on purpose. Take anything away and it stops reading; add anything and it turns into decoration.

What's in here

Line-art cat t-shirts from the Field Equations series: a boxy tee, a washed oversized tee and a cotton tee, each with one large drawing on the back and a small version at the left chest.

Why line art wears well

Solid-fill prints sit on top of a garment and crack along the fold lines. Line work moves with the cloth, and it reads at any distance: a shape from across a room, a set of intervals up close. It also survives the wash better, because there is less ink on the shirt to begin with.

Every design is original to Nekomori, with no stock art in the catalogue, and each product page records how the drawing came about. Nothing is printed until somebody orders it: 2–5 business days in production, then 8–10 days in the post, so delivery can take up to 17 days, wherever you are. Free standard shipping on orders of US$70 or more, and 30 days to change your mind, with return shipping on us.