Sydney-based designer John-Michael Papagianopoulos is the founder and designer behind Folklands T-shirts, a unique clothing label. Each design is hand-drawn onto 111 shirts, meaning that no two designs are completely identical. The creative purpose and reasoning behind creating clothing that is not mass-produced is quality and originality. Folklands t-shirts have both.
The label specializes in tribal prints, and each print is then carefully drawn onto the shirts using fabric markers. John-Michael Papagianopoulos has also started adding his personal touch to skateboards by applying his unique tribal prints to them.
The tribal prints are just in time for summer; what's more, for probably the first time ever, you will truly be able to say your clothing is one-of-a-kind. Who doesn't want that?
Hand-Drawn Duds
Folklands T-Shirts Forgo Screen Printing for Fabric Markers
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