The Sea Awaits

The sea awaits. It sounds like a poetry for us.

The Sea Awaits - Gym bag

It all begins in Trieste, a seaside city in Italy where in July we participated the first handmade market of our life: Barbacan Produce.

It has been a funny and intense experience, where not only we have received feedbacks from our lovely customers but also we have had the occasion to meet so many wonderful sellers of different craftmade products.

During lunchtime I had not visited the market yet, so I decided to left my sister Irene for a while to look at what the others were doing meanwhile. 

As I said, there were a wide range of sellers and many different products but what caught my attention were some wooden made fishes. I met the artist, a nice guy called Lorenzo, 40 years old more or less, who told me that his "job" consists in gathering  from beaches some old wood branches which have been carried by the waves of the sea for many kilometers and time.
Lorenzo was so happy to tell me everything about him and his work, which he do not actually considers work at all but pure passion to do what he loves.

The Sea Awaits tote bag on the left, gym bag on the right

After this incredible and deep moment I came back to the Busking Bears' stand and told to my sister what happened to me few minutes before. Irene wrote down some notes and a quick illustration about fishes and the sea.

Trieste is a seaside, and every year in October one of the major sailing events happened to be in this city, the Barcolana competition.
It is a moment for the entire city to have fun, drink into the streets and taste new food coming from every place in the world. Furthermore, a new handmade market edition of Barbacan Produce took place during the Barcolana event.

We decided to participate again to the handmade market in Trieste with some products that are dedicated to the sea and that can inspire someone to travel because The Sea Awaits You.

The Sea Awaits gym bag on Busking Bears' shop: LINK

The Sea Awaits light blue tote bag on Busking Bears' shop: LINK

The Sea Awaits navy tote bag on Busking Bears' shop: LINK

Have a nice day sailors!

The Minerals Tshirt

The “Minerals” tee.
Everyone asks: why the minerals? Why did you decide to put them everywhere? Which material is it made of?

Ladies and gentlemen, sit down on your chair/sofa/bed and relax, because now every answer (and more) will be given to you!

One of the things I love most in being an active part of Busking Bears is that I have to personally take the big thousand pages catalogue, read every product description of plain t-shirts, pay attention on materials composition, shape, colors, ethical of the production process , order the chosen products and finally test them.

Busking Bears is a brand for adventurers, travelers and hikers, so essentially people who sweat. A lot.

Our best selling tee, the “Minerals” has been tested by myself during the long way to Santiago: a 800 kilometers (about 500 miles) hike from the border between France and Spain to Santiago, close to the Atlantic Ocean.
It has been an hard, intense, hurting, funny and emotional experience. 

What I didn’t believe at first was the freshness that the Minerals tee would have guaranteed to my body. It is 100% ring-spun cotton textile so basically one of the most breathable cotton that I’ve ever experienced!

The result for a person who likes to hike, run and sweat (because I know you like to sweat) is the same of a “Decathlon fluo t-shirt 100% polyester”.

And what about the minerals? Why the minerals and not, let’s say… tomatoes?

My sister Irene made the illustration of this particular object.
In that period she was so obsessed with natural science handbook designs that we agreed to print on our apparel something that everyone of us has treaded on during a walk in the mountains surrounded by nature.

The sound of the trekking shoes on minerals and rocks on the path is symbolic for us. Being boy scouts for long part of our lives and living close to the Alps are the deep reasons of our choice.

Finally, the screen-printing. 
It’s been hard, but the professional screenprinters of Corpoc (Bergamo, Italy) did a great job since they used a particular frame and printing technique. And the rest is history.

I’m happy about my sister’s choice to print the minerals in full-front as a fall from the sky.
It’s particular, unusual and totally unique. 


The men "Minerals" tshirt in our etsy shop: LINK
The women "Minerals" tshirt in our etsy shop: LINK

Have a nice day,