The JTA Hand-Printed Tee
The JTA Hand-Printed Tee - Sml is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
At JTA we are proud of our order turnaround times and work hard to ensure the best possible service.
At JTA we are proud of our order turnaround times and work hard to ensure the best possible service.
We are NOT a drop-shipping company and hold all of our stock in Sydney. We dispatch every weekday, and we are usually able to dispatch orders received before 12pm on the same day. If you urgently require your purchase we suggest that you select express shipping at checkout to ensure we prioritise your parcel.
Shipping Charges:
We have revised our logistics systems to offer the best possible postage price to our customers. All prices are in $AUD.
Within Australia:
Regular Post: $9.50, tracking number emailed to you at dispatch
Express Post: $16.50, tracking number emailed to you at dispatch
Within New Zealand:
We are now able to offer our New Zealand customers $15 flat-rate shipping on orders under 2kg. For orders heavier than 2kg the following rates apply:
<2kg: $15
3kg: $24
4kg: $28
5kg: $32
Express Courier International:
Flat Rate - AU$30 on orders up to 2kg (4.4lbs)
For orders over this weight:
<3kg: $56
<4kg: $63.40
<5kg: $70.75
For orders over 5kg in weight, please email us at info@japanesetools.com.au
Prices for all other international orders are calculated at checkout according to Australia Post’s standard rates.
Please be aware some international countries may charge additional taxes when your order goes through customs. Prices on the JTA website do not include these charges and it is the customer's responsibility to cover this.
Delivery Times inside Australia:
These are estimates only. All orders are sent with a tracking code via our shipping app Shippit, and we recommend you use this to check on your order's progress.
From the date of dispatch we expect the following delivery times within Australia:
Regular Post: Within 3-5 business days (metro areas) or 4-8 business days (rural areas)
Express Post: 1-2 business days (metro areas) or 2-4 business days (rural areas)
Plastic-free Policy:
Japanese Tools Australia is an environmentally conscious company and we endeavour to eliminate plastics in as many parts of our business as possible. Your purchase will be shipped in recyclable non-plastic materials, and we re-use cardboard and paper wherever possible in our shipping process.
Exceptions to plastic-free policy:
Unfortunately, we are required to dispatch some express items in pre-paid satchels and in such circumstances we have no choice but to use a plastic satchel. Please keep in mind these satchels are 100% recyclable. Our suppliers also use plastic in their packaging of some products, and we do not remove these protective measures before shipping. We are considering strategies to eliminate these two remaining sources of plastic in our shipping process. As many of our items are hand-made, they do not arrive to us or to you with extraneous packaging, though this is not the case for all of our products.
Breakage in shipping policy:
We pack our shipments in specialised materials to ensure that our customers find them in the same condition that we send them. If you receive your products in a damaged condition, please email info@japanesetools.com.au with your order number and photos of the condition of the products within a week of collection. If an item is deemed to have been damaged in transit we will replace it with like kind at no extra shipping cost to the customer.If you are unhappy with the condition of your product and it has not been damaged in transit, please refer to our returns and exchanges policy.
Description
Description
You're right! This is not a tool, but an item of clothing. This is a first for us, so we'd like to explain the process and some of it's limitations.
Our 100% cotton tees are hand block-printed by artist Zephyr Larkin in Sydney. We think they look great, and we think they feel great. We are very happy with them. We think you will be, too! Selling a shirt is a first for us, so we'd like to explain the unique process at play here, and some of it's inherent limitations.
Our print run is strictly limited to 100 shirts only. The shirts are already signed, sealed and delivered to Zephyr, which means we can't adjust the quantities of any sizes. If you'd like a shirt, please pick one up sooner rather than later, as some sizes have very limited availability. All shirts will be mailed in early February 2022.
We have chosen tan as the colour for this print run because we like it. No other colours are available.
Zephyr is printing throughout January, and your shirt will be delivered to you in February. Sorry, the price above does not include postage. However, if you order anything else with your shirt, we will happily split the order at no extra postage cost (*inside Australia).
Okay, so, a bit more information...
If you have seen our video on our printmaking set, you have already met the hands of our mate Zephyr - artist, block-carver, printer and all round rad dude.
When we made that video we asked Zephyr what he really loves to print, and the answer was instant - T-shirts. Zephyr designs, carves and prints awesome T-shirts. Well we couldn't leave that well enough alone, could we?
Zephyr sketched up a very cool design featuring a few of our favourite tools. To us it looks a bit mid-century with the feel of an old movie poster. This fantastic design emblazons the back of the shirt, while a black version of the JTA wood-grain rising sun sits on the front left chest.
Zephyr carved it out painstakingly on a lino block. Boy is it nice to watch a good block carver take care of detail. Through a series of proofs he refined it continuously.
To print a run, each shirt requires the back block to be freshly and evenly inked. It is then laid on the shirt's back, matted and run back and forth through the press before being racked out to dry. After a couple of days' dry time, the block for the front is inked up and the process is repeated
As such, each shirt needs to be printed twice. Twice! Quick-and-easy digital printing this is not - nor is it screen printing. Block printing takes time and produces beautiful detail in an extremely long-lived print, and also has that beautiful hand-made quality that we enjoy so much.
Finding a shirt that we thought did justice to Zephyr's work wasn't quick either, and we went through three well known brands before deciding we were happy with AS Colour's preshrunk 100% cotton 220GSM Classic tee.
If you thought all t-shirts were born the same, we would like to humbly suggest that this isn't the case - especially when you need your shirt to take a crisp black block print and stand up the rigours of the JTA sharpening bench.
We've been wearing shirts with this design around the workshop since Zephyr printed us a test run (they're now JTA 'uniform') and we love them. They only ever go in a cold machine wash, and we suggest washing yours by itself the first time it goes through the machine for peace of mind, though we have never had any issues with the ink transferring.
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