Carbon Fibre T Shirt
We’ve taken carbon fibre out of the world of aerospace and military engineering.
- Material woven with carbon fibre for strength
- Highly abrasion resistant
- Extreme four way stretch
In 2017 we set out to make the world’s toughest t shirts. The logic was pretty simple. If you can get tough pants and tough jackets, why can’t you get a tough t shirt? It made no sense to us that the layer you routinely strip down to when you’re working hardest, should be the weakest.
First we built the toughest t shirt on Earth using the same ceramic technology as the International Space Station. Then in 2019 we designed our Carbon Fibre T Shirt to give it something to compete with. Normally reserved for use in missiles, jet engines and the world’s fastest cars thanks to its high tensile strength and low weight, we've taken carbon fibre out of the world of aerospace and military engineering and brought it into clothing.
Each t shirt is woven with over 120 metres of carbon fibre which has an atomic structure that makes it stronger than steel. While the t shirt is still soft, lightweight, breathable, highly elastic and high-wicking, the carbon fibre adds strength and abrasion resistance – acting like a ripstop to save your skin.
Technical Details
It’s the atomic structure that makes carbon fibre so strong
A single carbon fibre is a long, super thin strand of material around 0.005mm across and composed almost entirely of carbon atoms. These atoms bond together to form microscopic crystals that line up parallel to the length of the fibre. It makes the atomic structure of carbon fibre similar to graphite and graphene – with sheets of carbon atoms arranged in a regular hexagonal pattern. And it’s the arrangement of the atoms that makes carbon fibre so strong for its size.
How we put carbon fibre into a t shirt
As well as being baked into other materials, carbon fibres can also be woven into them to increase their strength. As carbon fibre is thinner than human hair, it only gets its strength when thousands of these tiny fibres are twisted together to form a yarn. And it’s this yarn that we’ve woven into each t shirt. To the naked eye the carbon fibre will look like a series of single threads. But in reality, each one is a rope-like bundle of thousands of carbon filaments bound together.
From Graphene, to ceramics, to carbon fibre
Making the world’s most resilient, intelligent and adaptable clothing means we often end up re-engineering materials that started life being used for radically different things. Sometimes the materials we use start life at NASA. Others grow in nature. Today we work with everything from copper and algae, to aerogel, ceramics, Dyneema, and garbage. With its incredible strength to weight ratio, carbon fibre was always going to be part of our journey.
SIze + Fit
The Carbon Fibre T Shirt has a regular fit.
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits chest | 83 - 90 | 91 - 98 | 99 - 106 | 107 - 114 | 115 - 122 | 123 - 130 |
Fits waist | 71 - 76 | 76 - 81 | 81 - 86 | 86 - 91 | 91 - 96 | 96 - 101 |
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits chest | 33 - 36 | 36 - 39 | 39 - 42 | 42 - 45 | 45 - 48 | 48 - 51 |
Fits waist | 28 - 30 | 30 - 32 | 32 - 34 | 34 - 36 | 36 - 38 | 38 - 40 |