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Everything on Spider Canada gets written off the rail, and the Spider Canada journal is no different: one guide is up so far, and it came from garments we have washed, worn and measured rather than from a calendar of topics somebody thinks should rank.

That first guide answers the question that lands in the inbox more than any other: what 380 GSM feels like on an oversized hoodie. Weight changes the drop through the shoulder. It changes how long the thing takes to dry, too, and whether you size down. We wrote it in September 2026 and filed it under style guides.

How a Drawing Gets From Paper Onto Cloth

Fine linework that looks sharp on a screen can close up at 180 GSM, and most sketches die at the first sample. A jersey that light has loops small enough to swallow a hairline stroke, so the same drawing that reads as an engraving on a 220 GSM oversized tee turns into a smudge on a fitted one.

Terry at 380 GSM has the opposite problem. There is plenty of surface to print on, but the weight is what holds the panel flat, and a lighter knit lets it ripple across the shoulder blades every time you move. Brushed french terry at 380 GSM also has a raised surface, so a fine outline sinks into it while a filled shape sits proud of it, which is why the drawings that work on hoodies tend to be bolder than the ones that work on tees. Samples get judged on cloth, never on a screen, for exactly that reason.

Why a Print That Behaves Earns Another Ground

OG Web runs across four hoodie colorways for that reason, and Web sits on seven long sleeves: same drawing, seven bodies.

Ponk goes further again, with one leg drawing in five treatments, from a tonal line you only catch in raking light to a filled silver that reads across a room. proves the point with two: the same cross and skull picked out in violet on one pair and filled white on the other, on identical black cloth.

What Is Coming to the Shelves Marked as Not Stocked

Headwear, kids, and a set cut as a set each get written up when there is something to show. Eight categories are open and empty at the moment: kids, tracksuits, shorts, short sets, sweaters, beanies, caps and accessories. Each one has a page explaining what it will hold and why it is not there yet, which is a more useful thing to read than a launch date nobody can keep.

Where the Spider Canada Journal Fits

Nothing here runs to a schedule. A post goes up when it has something in it, which is the same reason half the category pages on this site say plainly that they are empty.

If you need an answer today, two pages will be faster than waiting for us. The size guide holds flat measurements in inches and centimeters, S through XL, so you can put a tape across a shirt you already own and match it rather than guessing from a chart built on averages. Oversized and fitted cuts are listed apart there, because a 220 GSM oversized tee and a 180 GSM fitted one do not share a size line.

Washing is the other half of it. Product care splits washing, drying and ironing by weight and by how heavy the ink sits, because a 380 GSM hoodie and a 180 GSM tee do not dry at the same rate and a filled print will not take the same iron as a tonal line.

What the journal adds is the part no spec line covers: a 380 GSM hoodie after ten washes, a 180 GSM tee after one. After ten washes a hoodie tells you the truth about its terry. It is also where a piece ends up when it is too long for a product page, whether that is fabric weight, how a print is laid down, or why one drawing gets four grounds and another gets one. Each of those is a paragraph on a product page and an article here.

Anything posted gets the date it went up, and if a fact changes on the rail the post is corrected rather than quietly left standing. Two questions keep arriving that are not written up yet: why a colorway disappears while the drawing stays, and why an oversized tee at 220 GSM hangs nothing like a fitted one at 180. Both get a post eventually. Neither gets one before there is something specific to say.