Where there is coffee, there is home.
Café de olla isn’t made one cup at a time. It’s coffee simmered in a clay pot with piloncillo and cinnamon, brewed by the potful for everyone at the table — on cold mornings, on holidays, on the days you remember the people who taught you to make it. This is the México piece of the Steeping the Soul series: Bert at peace in the olla’s steam, marigolds and canela around him. The front is the warmth of the kitchen. The back says why, in Spanish and English — because where there’s coffee, there’s home.
Colors pulled straight from the design: ivory for unfired kitchen pottery, yam for Oaxacan olla terracotta, mustard for the warmth of the cempasúchil marigold. Garment-dyed, so each piece settles into its own lived-in shade.
The Design Story
Café de olla is Mexican coffee at its most generous: ground coffee simmered in an olla de barro — a clay pot — with piloncillo (raw cane sugar) and a stick of canela, sometimes a curl of orange peel. The clay gives it an earthy warmth no machine can. Everything on the front belongs to that kitchen: the terracotta olla, the cinnamon, the marigolds, and Bert resting easy in the golden steam. Explore Mexico’s coffee origins →
The back says it in both languages: Dónde hay café, hay casa — where there is coffee, there is home. The marigold is no accident either; it’s the cempasúchil, the flower believed to guide loved ones home. If the Ethiopian piece prays and the Japanese piece whispers, the Mexican piece sings — warm, generous, made for the whole table. See all Clothing & Gear →
Craft & Details
Bert says: The olla never makes just one cup. It makes enough for everyone who shows up.
Perfect for anyone whose kitchen smells like cinnamon and coffee
Size & Fit Details
Comfort Colors runs relaxed and slightly boxy. S–3XL.
Fabric & Print Details
Wash & Care
About Café de Olla
Café de olla is a traditional Mexican way of brewing coffee — ground coffee simmered in an olla de barro (a clay pot) with piloncillo, the unrefined cane sugar pressed into cones, and a stick of canela. Some kitchens add orange peel, star anise, or cloves. The clay pot is the secret: it lends an earthy roundness you can’t get from glass or metal. It’s made for cold mornings and for company — brewed by the potful and poured for everyone. The orange cempasúchil marigold woven into this design is the flower of Día de Muertos, believed to guide loved ones home — which is exactly what the back of this shirt is about.
About the Steeping the Soul Series
A world coffee tour — Bert resting with the traditional vessel of each coffee culture, each with its own palette, script, and feeling. The Japanese piece whispers (the tea cup, stillness). The Mexican piece sings (the café de olla, warmth). The Puerto Rican piece tells stories (the colador, family). The Ethiopian piece prays (the jebena, the ceremony). Made to let someone from each culture feel seen, and someone outside it feel curious.
