The nail is the oldest tool still in daily use. It has not been improved because it does not need to be. It is driven in, it holds, it does not ask for anything else.
That felt like the right thing to put on a garment.
The fabric is the same 290gsm cotton as the Article Tee, but washed. The wash changes the surface — softens the black toward something closer to charcoal, something that looks like it has already been through something. The Article Tee arrives new. This one arrives already broken in.
Three nails on the back. Photographed rather than illustrated — the texture of the iron visible in the print. Not a symbol of a nail. A nail. The DTG process picks up that surface detail in a way screenprint wouldn't. The image is large enough to read as industrial, not decorative. It doesn't need explaining.
The front carries only the name. Small. Left chest. Screenprinted in the same off-white as the nail graphic.
The collar and construction are identical to the Article Tee. The difference between the two garments is not structural — it is in surface and in what they carry. The Article Tee issues rules. The Nail Tee issues a material.
Both belong to the same archive. Both are worn the same way.