All shirts designed by Claire and Bill. Most are printed at Amazing Space with environmentally-friendly water-based textile inks; Claire’s full colour Bowron shirts were printed at a bigger shop. Many feature Cariboo, Wells and Barkerville motifs; prices vary according to the print, size & shirt style, and our inventories fluctuate. Visitors are always welcome to drop in to try one on!
Various versions of a design on indigo cotton, based on the original Wells Ski Club patches of the 1930s.
- Ski Club Hoodie (mask not included!)
- Another felt badge with more detail on the caribou.
- Photo of club members with crest on the hood of the car.
- Ski jumping on Cow Mountain. Photo courtesy of Robin Grady.
- Skiing down Cow Mountain. Photo courtesy of Robin Grady.
Designed and printed in summer 2018: “Wells Forget-me-not“. The Forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis) is the official flower of Wells! Green stems and lettering with blue and yellow water based inks.
- Azalea
- White
“Wellsian Fields” – two variations: a gold sun backdrop with a light-light-green to light-green blend on bright and dark shirt colours; gold with an indigo to violet blend on light shirts.
- Azalea
- Light pink
- Heather fuschia
- Iris
- Heather Purple
- Black
- Sport grey
- Claire & Chelan at ArtsWells
Other shirts:
- “Paddling is Believing” – Claire’s full colour Bowron Lakes shirt.
- Closeup of Claire’s full colour Bowron Lakes shirt. (also available as a giclée print)
- Claire’s Bowron Lakes line drawing, available at Jack O’ Clubs General.
- Blowing smoke.
- Barkerville malapropisms.
- “Cariboo Herstory” shirt design. (sold out)
- “Cariboo History” shirt design. (sold out)
- Highway26 polo shirt
- Hong Kong general strike sweatshirt
- Billy Barker shirt printed with gold ink. (sold out)
- Front of “Unite for Survival” reprint of poster designed by Phil Vernon. Textile dye gradient on unbleached cotton.
- Back of “Unite for Survival” shirt with Ad Hoc band’s gig list.
- Sleeve print for “Unite for Survival” reprint shirt .
- Long time Ad Hoc band member Alan Zisman sports a Unite for Survival shirt.
- Closeup of textile dye on unbleached cotton shows the ink penetration into the fabric which makes this kind of shirt far softer than ones printed with standard, heavier plastisol inks.
- Printing the gradient on the “Unite for Survival” shirt.
- “Cariboo Queens” (sold out)
- “Sunset Theatre” (sold out)
- “Wells – hardrock at heart” shirts (fronts). (sold out)
- “Wells Angels” shirt design by Claire. (available at BNC Mercantile)
- Peace River Solidarity; #honourthetreaties #keepthepeace (sold out)
- Bill’s Stake in the Peace shirts. (sold out)
- Cree language fundraising shirt for resistance to BC Hydro’s proposed Site C dam in Treaty 8 territory. (sold out)
- Dane-zaa language fundraising shirt for resistance to BC Hydro’s proposed Site C dam in Treaty 8 territory. (sold out)
- One-of-a-kind shirt with near-random prints.
- One-of-a-kind shirt with near-random prints.
- One-of-a-kind shirt with near-random prints.
Previous designs; temporarily out of print:
- Necktube on black cotton – “fair made” at Amazing Space.
- Necktube on white cotton – “fair made” at Amazing Space.
Short clips of Bill printing Cree shirts and Dane-zaa shirts.