wolf-horde

Snorri Sturluson names the wolf that chases the moon. In the Prose Edda, Skoll follows the sun across the sky while Hati Hrodvitnisson runs out ahead of her and hunts the moon instead, and the two are still running when the world ends. It...

Contour lines that build a face Every stroke in this panel is a curve, and the curves are stacked the way height lines are stacked on a map. Follow them and they wrap the brow, part around the eyes, tighten across the muzzle and...

A moon behind the shoulders Moonlight does the framing here. A pale crescent sits low behind the wolf's head and its glow catches the edge of the ruff, so the animal separates cleanly from the storm cloud gathering above and the deep blue beyond....

Meteors fall behind the shoulder of this all over print, thin white streaks crossing a starfield that runs from the collar down to the hem. The wolf is grey and silver, head lowered and turned aside, with seams of turquoise light running through the...

A face made to be read Wolves are unusually good at reading one another. Pale fur around the muzzle and eyes makes the direction of a gaze easy to follow across a clearing, which is why a wolf's face carries so much meaning to...

Altruism in a wolf pack is realThe product name is doing something unusual for once: it is accurate.Every adult returning from a hunt will regurgitate food for the pups, whether or not those pups are theirs. Older siblings babysit while the parents hunt. Injured...

Two strong images, one panelA flag and a wolf are both built from bold recognisable shapes, and putting them together could easily have turned into a mess. It works here because the flag is doing the background and the wolves are doing the subject,...

Engraving style is tone faked with linesThe look here comes from old printed illustration, and it exists because early printing could not do grey.A press puts down ink or it does not. There is no halfway. So engravers built the illusion of shading out...

Two halves, light and darkA white wolf set above a dark brown one, the pale half backed by cool blue light and the dark half by a red and orange blaze. The opposition is the entire composition, and adding a third element would only...

The print that carries this oneA grey wolf sits square to the viewer with a pair of white feathered wings raised behind it, spread wide enough to fill the width of the bag. There is a break of pale cloud in the night sky...

The cheapest way to change a roomNothing else comes close on cost per unit of difference.Repainting is a weekend and a mess. New furniture is hundreds. A rug is expensive and has to fit. A set of cushion covers costs less than a takeaway,...

Fangs baredThe head here is caught mid-snarl, jaws wide open and the fangs showing, which is a more aggressive treatment than the calm profiles elsewhere in our range. It is the bracelet for somebody who wants the animal at its least domesticated.Synthetic rather than...

Four hunters, two ways of living Four faces sit inside one woven hoop on this throw: a lion, a grey wolf, a leopard and a tiger, each in its own quarter of the circle, with white and brown feathers, dark stone and strands of...

The dark parts are meant to be thereThis is the single most common mistake people make with an antiqued piece, and it is not reversible.An antique finish is produced by darkening the metal and then polishing the raised surfaces back to bright, leaving the...

Black and gold, the colours of Anubis Anubis was painted black in Egyptian tomb art for reasons that had little to do with the coats of living animals. Black was the colour of the silt left by the Nile flood, the colour of returning...

Two of the same, or oneA pair of identical cushions at either end of a sofa reads as formal and deliberate. It is the arrangement hotels use, and it looks tidy rather than personal.A single one among plainer cushions reads as relaxed and looks...

The wolf that was never driven outEvery other wolf in this collection has a history of persecution behind it. The Arctic wolf largely does not, for the plain reason that almost nobody lives in its range.It is one of the few large predators on...

45 x 45 cm is the standard sizeWorth knowing because it makes everything easier. Forty-five centimetres square is the most common cushion size in Europe, which means pads are stocked by every furniture shop, department store and supermarket homeware aisle there is.You are never...

Arctic wolves keep a white coat the year round, while grey wolves further south only pale as the winter undercoat comes in. The animal on this hoodie belongs to the first group. A single wolf is photographed head on in silver, white and pale...

Splashes of scarlet, violet and marine blue burst around this wolf, and the animal itself is drawn largely in the spaces the paint leaves behind. The muzzle, the brow and the pale chest are bare cloth. Your eye assembles the head from the colour...