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WANYAMA Children’s T-shirt, Charcoal Grey

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Our WANYAMA (Kiswahili for ‘animals’) T-shirt features a host of different animal inhabitants of East Africa. Zebras stand peacefully, shoulder to shoulder with rhinos and lions. It works a treat, as the animals have known each other for a very long time. All the drawings were created between 2009 and the present day at various schools in Tanzania and Kenya.

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Unlike during the dry season, when all the animals gather around a waterhole in the savannah, we bring our WANYAMA animals together in our print shop when the room temperature is low. We only print this design during Kenya’s cooler season, when temperatures are slightly lower, as otherwise there is a risk that the ink will dry out in the large-format screen, resulting in inconsistent print results.

Production

Like every Kipepeo shirt, the WANYAMA shirt is produced over a distance of just 600 km by owner-managed family businesses in Tanzania and Kenya: the organically grown cotton is cultivated in Singida (Tanzania) on small-scale rain-fed farms, without artificial irrigation, and is harvested by hand. In Tanzania, this cotton is knitted into a high-quality, slightly heavier jersey fabric and dyed to our specifications in a bluish-grey ‘charcoal’ shade. The fabric is then transformed into a T-shirt of artisanal quality at our small sewing workshop in Nairobi, where it is cut, sewn and printed by hand using water-based screen-printing inks.

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