who
We are a small company in Romania. We draw, we write, and we send out T-shirts. There is no founder story here because a founder is not the point; the drawings are. "We" is the only name that appears on this site, on the label, and on the invoice.
The shop is called freepalestine.wiki — in Arabic, فلسطين حرة. It is a sentence many people have said for a long time; we did not invent it and we do not own it. It is the name on the door, and it is printed once inside the collar of every piece, under the wordmark. It is never on the outside of a garment. No drawing in this collection carries a slogan, ours or anyone else's: what a garment carries is one ordinary thing, one Arabic word, and at most one date. The collection is called Edition 109 because 2026 is the 109th year after 2 November 1917, the date the line on our history page begins. Next year's edition is 110, and the two counting drawings — the tallies and the sum — are re-issued one unit longer.
why
We wanted a T-shirt about Palestine that a person could wear to work. Not a softer one — a quieter one. The history is loud enough on its own; it does not need capitals. So each drawing carries one ordinary thing, one Arabic word, and at most one date, and the argument, with its sources, is kept here on the site, never on the cloth.
We keep to facts a reader can check. Every sentence on this site that says when something happened links to where we read it. Where people disagree about a number, we show the range and say who counts what. If we cannot source it, we do not print it.
One thing, said once, plainly: nothing on these garments or on these pages dehumanises anyone. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not Jews, not Arabs, not soldiers, not anyone. We do not print slogans, insignia, weapons, faces, or the words of the dead. We think a people's hundred years can be told in a cactus, a key and a sum, and we think that telling it that way is the more serious choice, not the less.
how the drawings are made
A hand. One 0.5 mm fineliner and one HB pencil, on a kitchen table, in one sitting. Each thing is drawn once, outline first; the second, fainter line you can see beside some strokes is the one honest second try, not a tremor. Closed shapes are left open by a millimetre. Verticals lean. Nothing is traced from a photograph, and nothing is drawn by a machine — the machine only helps us keep the pen's width right for the print.
The Arabic is written in ruqʿah, the everyday handwriting of the Arab world, and every word is checked by a native reader before it is printed. Nothing is mirrored, letter-spaced or rotated. Our page how to read your shirt names the letters.
Sources come first. Each drawing began as a page of notes with dates and links, then a sketch, then the sketch redrawn until it could be said in under forty strokes. The notes are what you read under why this drawing on each product page.
The garments are GOTS-certified organic cotton blanks by Stanley/Stella, printed in the EU with one water-based ink, #4b463f, a warm dark grey, never black. We say only what the blank's certificate supports.
Romania
The company is a Romanian SRL; its registered details are on the imprint page. Drawings, packing and the writing of this site happen in Bucharest. From every T-shirt sold, €5 is given by us to a medical charity working in Gaza and the West Bank — named here once the written agreement is signed — €10 from a hoodie — and the transfers are published, with receipts, on the ledger page.
If something on this site is wrong, write to us. We will correct it and say so.