Wolf Astral Head Pillow Case

The darkest cover we make

A wolf head against open space, lit from behind by a ring of gold, in the deepest palette of anything in this range.

The darkness is doing the work. Stars only read as light if the ground behind them is genuinely dark, and a print that compromises on that ends up as grey speckles. This one commits, which is why the field has depth rather than looking like a pattern.

Deep colour anchors a pale room

A sofa with only light cushions on it can look oddly unfinished. Adding something dark fixes it, because the eye reads dark as weight and a scheme with no weight at seat level feels like it is floating.

One or two dark cushions among lighter ones does the whole job.

A sky nobody sees any more

The sky here is painted rather than copied from life: banks of blue, purple and deep red cloud, a fine white ring ruled around the head, and an arc of moon phases across the lower half that ends in a full gold moon. The real thing has grown scarce in its own way, since a global survey found that around a third of humanity can no longer see the Milky Way from home.

Wolves and dark skies have retreated for overlapping reasons. Both need country without much of us in it.

The cover

45 x 45 cm, 100% polyester, high definition print, machine washable at 30 degrees. Cover only: the pad that goes inside is not included.

Our article on the wolf constellation covers the sky. See the wolf pillow case range.

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