All our tees are made with a blend of Bamboo Viscose & Organic Cotton.

This fusion of natural fibres creates a luxuriously soft fabric that’s lightweight, breathable and gentle on the skin. The material also helps to remove moisture away from the body, regulate heat and reduce the rate of bacteria multiplying. This means that your tee will stay fresh for much longer without holding body odour or moisture.

We love using bamboo as a resource because it is one of the fastest growing and most sustainable plants on the planet. It thrives naturally without the need for pesticides, herbicides or fertilisers and after harvesting, it simply grows back again ready to repeat. Sounds too good to be true right? Well, it’s not perfect just yet. While the cultivation of bamboo is considered organic, the process of breaking the cellulose down into a viscose is chemical intensive. While we are looking into sourcing a fully eco-friendly bamboo fabric, we are confident that compared to most clothing available on the market this is still a big step in the right direction.

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As well as our speciality tees, we also provide a number of sweaters made from 100% Combed Organic Cotton. The cotton is grown on an organic farm in India without the use of any pesticides or herbicides and the fabric is combed and brushed for maximum softness. Our sweats are super comfy and manufactured solely using renewable green energy from solar and wind power sources. All of this combined with our original designs make these sweats feel as good on your conscience as they do on your body.

We always try to do good where we can and so we source all our garments from a trusted and award-winning Fair Wear certified supplier. As well as having an unquestionable attention detail and consistent high quality our supplier ensures payment of a living wage to their staff, fair contracts and absolutely no child labour. In a world where sweatshops and cheap retailers are prevalent, this approach to manufacturing clothing is essential for guiding fashion into a better future.

If you’re interested in ethical fashion, we highly recommend watching ‘The True Cost’. It’s an insightful documentary that shows you who is really paying the price of fast fashion and why we should all start being more conscious about where our clothes come from. Well worth a watch.

All our designs are created by Tom Chadwick, the founder of Tomoto.

With a background in design and a passion for all things creative, Tom takes his influence from the things he loves and puts his ideas into minimal black and white illustrations. Music, street art, animation, travel and Eastern culture are all big inspirations and elements of these can be seen throughout our collection. There’s no real formula for the designs, just that there are ‘some to make you smile and some to make you think’.

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Our tees and sweats are hand screen printed by an independent print studio in Leeds with over 12 years experience and strong ethical values that aline with our own.

We use only the finest water based inks available on all our garments. These inks are kind on the environment while producing a premium and long lasting finish that sits gently on the fabric. For our black apparel, we use a special type of discharge ink that bleaches the dye of the fabric and replaces it with a whitening pigment, ensuring that it will never wash out.

To keep things fresh for our followers, we also limit the prints to no more than 300 tees and 100 sweaters. Once they’re gone, they’re gone so please enjoy them while they last!

Music is our biggest inspiration. It’s what motivates us and what got us here in the first place. As testament to this, we thought it would be fitting to make it a key part of our brand and design our own custom record sleeves for the tees to packaged in.

The sleeves are made from 100% Recycled Cairn Board sourced from France and then screen printed in our studio in Leeds. They are designed and made entirely by us and you won’t find anything quite the same anywhere else in the world.

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We’d love to know what you do with your Tomoto packaging, so please send in any images of you reusing it. Whether it’s for a wall hanging, paper storage or even to hold an old record, we’d love to see!

Contact hello@tomoto.co.uk