Hackney Pirates to be precise. Like Cedya. Who is 10 and from London. Her T-shirt is about being attacked by fire dragons and flying cars.

And her design is just one in a range of sixteen beautiful T-shirts produced by the Hackney Pirates, an innovative learning project that develops literacy by giving children one to one attention in an unconventional learning environment.
The children are referred by teachers who recognise the enormous potential of these gifted young people that could be realised and encouraged with the benefit of extra attention beyond the school gates.

At the heart of the project lies the idea that learning should be an adventure and a belief in the power of one-to-one attention as a hugely powerful educational tool. Volunteers not only help young pirates with homework and reading but use their creativity and talents to work alongside the pirates making professionally produced creative products like books, T-shirts and websites that become real, tangible results of everyone’s efforts and develop the children’s’ writing alongside real working skills.

The ‘Young Pirate Apprentice’ T shirt project has seen children aged 9-12 working together not just on the design of t-shirts but on market research and planning and developing the entire sales and marketing strategy.

To get your hands on your very own pirate T, check out full range at
www.hackneypirates.org.uk/tshirts

Tweet

We love Christmas here at Monster Threads. But for all the wrong reasons…

Here are some of them:

(more…)

Tweet

Winter is just around the corner, and it’s a great opportunity for Monster Threads to pay tribute to a season that we literally love to hate.

We love it cause it’s a good excuse for fashion aficionados to wear their favourite vests, jumpers and hoodies. But we also hate it a bit, cause it’s not a tee-friendly season! Well, there’s is no perfection, not even in fashion…

(more…)

Tweet

Welcome to the Monster Land, where everything is magical and nothing is impossible. Our clothes are not made for ordinary people – they are made for freakingly beautiful people with passion, dreams and imagination. For special boys and girls, just like you.

(more…)

Tweet