About these 1776 shirts
Eight designs from the founding era. A minuteman strides forward in a blue coat and tricorn with a flintlock musket. Four comic panels follow colonial fighters, a fifer among them. A night rider gallops past a white steeple hung with two lit lanterns under a full moon.
The rest is paper and metal. Two quills drip ink beside inkwells over aged parchment, a town crier in a tricorn rings his bell, and a cracked liberty bell sits beneath PROCLAIM, LET IT RING. A laurel-crowned bust is crossed by a red band reading 1791, the year the Bill of Rights was ratified.
These are history-minded graphics, not copies of period uniforms. Claim one and you are its only owner, with full commercial rights to the artwork. Printed tees are ordered separately.
1776 shirts slogan ideas
- Powder dry, ink wet
- Dated July fourth
- Lanterns in the steeple
- Quill in hand
- Ink before gunpowder
- Ready in a minute
- Proclaim it
- Ring it loud
- Parchment and powder
- Colonial hours
- Signed in ink
- Seventeen seventy-six
- Cracked but ringing
- Declare it
- Founders' ink
- Hear ye, hear ye
- Fifer at the front
None of these fit? Make your own design from a prompt and it becomes a 1-of-1 of its own.
Questions
What does a 1776 t-shirt mean?
1776 is the year the Declaration of Independence was adopted, so on a shirt it usually nods to the American Revolution and the founding. Some companies and groups also use the number, so the meaning depends on what surrounds it. The designs here pair the date's history with original art, such as minutemen, quills and bells, and carry no group's branding.
What is a Revolutionary War hunting shirt?
A loose linen frock, often fringed, worn by militia and frontier riflemen in the period. The designs on this page are graphic tees with original artwork, not reproductions of period clothing.
What does the Liberty Bell represent?
It stands for liberty and independence. The bell was cast for the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, and its famous crack is now part of its image. The Cracked Bell Proclamation design on this page draws on it.