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Mineral T Shirt

Made with the same 3 billion-year-old mineral that cavemen used to paint their caves.

CHF 110

Model is 5ft 11 / 180cm with a 38 inch / 97cm chest, and wears size Medium.

  • Garment dyed with 100% hematite mineral powder
  • Material is a blend of hemp and organic cotton
  • Four-way stretch

As we continue to look for new, low impact ways to dye clothing, we’ve turned to the colouring tools of early man – minerals, rocks, and soils. Minerals don’t just tell the story of life on Earth, they also tell the story of colour. When our solar system settled into its current shape around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was created by a series of galactic collisions. Tectonic plates began to form. And geological life and biological life fused together to create vast mineral deposits in the Earth’s upper crust. So when prehistoric man first picked up a prehistoric paintbrush, they turned to the ground around them. Today, instead of using those minerals to paint cave walls, we’re using them to dye clothing. Our Mineral T Shirt is garment dyed in a giant bath of hematite. There are only 2 by-products of this process – sediment, and water. Both of which can go straight back into nature.

Black Algae Dyed T Shirt

Made with seaweed from Icelandic fjords, and the world’s first black algae dye.

CHF 125

Technical Details

Material made in Portugal: 80% organic cotton, 20% SeaCell
T shirt garment dyed with black algae dye
Soft and breathable
T shirt weighs 175 grams
Material weighs 150g/m2
Machine wash inside out at 30°C
Constructed in Portugal
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Turning algae into dye took 5 years of R&D

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small, otherwise the t shirt’s fibres won’t absorb them. So Living Ink have spent 5 years in R&D working on how to reduce the size of the black algae particles to an average of 1 micron. This breakthrough creates a sustainable alternative to dyeing clothing using traditional carbon-black based dyes, and with a clear pathway for scaling up.

Our intensive R&D process didn't stop with the dye

We carried out 6 months of lab tests to successfully dye our t shirt, trying different fabrics, dyeing temperatures, and pigment concentrations, before finding the perfect combination.

Size + Fit

The Black Algae T Shirt is designed with a regular fit.

SizeXSSMLXLXXLXXXL
Fits chest83 - 9091 - 9899 - 106107 - 114115 - 122123 - 130131 - 138
Fits waist71 - 7676 - 8181 - 8686 - 9191 - 9696 - 101102 - 107
SizeXSSMLXLXXLXXXL
Fits chest33 - 3636 - 3939 - 4242 - 4545 - 4848 - 5151 - 54
Fits waist28 - 3030 - 3232 - 3434 - 3636 - 3838 - 4040 - 42