Tyneside Tees
About
A small print shop that makes shirts about Newcastle without taking the piss out of it.
We started Tyneside Tees because every time we passed a tourist shop on Northumberland Street we wanted to apologise to whoever from here had to look at it. The shirts in those windows shouted things. They had ant-and-dec on them, or three lions, or that one phrase you see on a stag-do half-and-half tee, screen-printed in 2003 and never recovered from.
We wanted shirts you could put on without feeling daft.
What we make
A small run of designed tees, printed to order in the UK. Heavy 220-240gsm cotton. Real serif type, considered colour, the occasional bit of oxblood where everyone else would use the obvious black-and-white. Each shirt references something we actually like about Newcastle: the Tyne, an old season, a phrase that's nicer than the loud version.
We don't do drops or scarcity rubbish. When a design's available, it's available. When it isn't, it isn't.
How we make it
Designs are drawn here. We print through Printful's UK and EU facilities so shirts don't sit in a warehouse before they reach you. That keeps the lead time honest (about a week from order to dispatch) and means we don't have to commit inventory to a colour that turns out to be wrong.
The site itself is a piece of practice, built so the second and third shop we make can spin up on the same machinery. If you like the way it works, the internals are open enough to let on about.
Who we are
Two of us. We grew up here, we still live here, we don't have a press kit.
For any bother (sizing, returns, custom requests), write to hello@tynesidetees.com.