Bardstown, KY: The Bardstown Sketchbook Tee
Graphite / M
$33.00
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$33.00
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Some towns get a postcard. Bardstown got a sketchbook.
There is a version of Bardstown that exists in photographs — the kind every visitor takes. And then there is the Bardstown that exists in the hand of someone who has actually walked it. Someone who has stood at the courthouse square long enough to notice the way the light hits the storefronts in the late afternoon. Someone who has been inside a rickhouse and felt the particular quiet of a thousand barrels aging in the dark. Someone who has had a drink at the Talbott Tavern and understood, without anyone explaining it, that they were sitting somewhere that mattered.
That is the Bardstown on this shirt.
Drawn the way a traveling sketch artist might have drawn it in 1820 or 1920 or last week — because nothing about this town has ever needed updating to stay worth drawing. The rickhouse, stacked floor to ceiling with the patient architecture of bourbon aging exactly the way it always has. Federal Hill, the antebellum estate that gave Stephen Foster a song the whole country still sings. The courthouse square, looking the way it has looked since Rand McNally called this the most beautiful small town in America. The Talbott Tavern, standing on Court Square since 1779. And the barrels — rows and rows of white oak, racked and waiting, doing the slow quiet work that built this town's name.
Five sketches. One town. The whole story, drawn by hand.
This is not a souvenir. This is what Bardstown looks like to the people who actually know it.
Made for the locals. Inspired by the legends.
• Shirt color: Graphite
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²)
• Garment-dyed
• Relaxed fit
• 7/8″ double-needle topstitched collar
• Twill-taped neck and shoulders for extra durability
• Double-needle armhole, sleeve, and bottom hems
• Blank product sourced from Honduras
Bardstown, KY: The Bardstown Sketchbook Tee
$33.00
Sale price
$33.00
Regular price
There is a version of Bardstown that exists in photographs — the kind every visitor takes. And then there is the Bardstown that exists in the hand of someone who has actually walked it. Someone who has stood at the courthouse square long enough to notice the way the light hits the storefronts in the late afternoon. Someone who has been inside a rickhouse and felt the particular quiet of a thousand barrels aging in the dark. Someone who has had a drink at the Talbott Tavern and understood, without anyone explaining it, that they were sitting somewhere that mattered.
That is the Bardstown on this shirt.
Drawn the way a traveling sketch artist might have drawn it in 1820 or 1920 or last week — because nothing about this town has ever needed updating to stay worth drawing. The rickhouse, stacked floor to ceiling with the patient architecture of bourbon aging exactly the way it always has. Federal Hill, the antebellum estate that gave Stephen Foster a song the whole country still sings. The courthouse square, looking the way it has looked since Rand McNally called this the most beautiful small town in America. The Talbott Tavern, standing on Court Square since 1779. And the barrels — rows and rows of white oak, racked and waiting, doing the slow quiet work that built this town's name.
Five sketches. One town. The whole story, drawn by hand.
This is not a souvenir. This is what Bardstown looks like to the people who actually know it.
Made for the locals. Inspired by the legends.
• Shirt color: Graphite
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²)
• Garment-dyed
• Relaxed fit
• 7/8″ double-needle topstitched collar
• Twill-taped neck and shoulders for extra durability
• Double-needle armhole, sleeve, and bottom hems
• Blank product sourced from Honduras
Size guide
| WIDTH (inches) | LENGTH (inches) | SLEEVE CENTER BACK (inches) | |
| S | 18 ¼ | 26 ⅝ | 16 ¼ |
| M | 20 ¼ | 28 | 17 ¾ |
| L | 22 | 29 ⅜ | 19 |
| XL | 24 | 30 ¾ | 20 ½ |
| 2XL | 26 | 31 ⅝ | 21 ¾ |
| 3XL | 27 ¾ | 32 ½ | 23 ¼ |
| 4XL | 29 ¾ | 33 ½ | 24 ⅝ |