Wolf Rug Head Feathers

Deep burgundy fills this mat corner to corner, with gold filigree curling in at each corner and feathers in yellow, pink, black and red scattered loose across the ground. Through the middle a wolf's head comes forward out of what looks like a torn opening in the surface, tawny brown and grey with a cream ruff, head cocked low and ears up.

The pale eye

Wolf pups are born blue eyed, and most settle into amber or gold within a few months. The eyes printed here have kept the blue, pale and cold against all that warm fur, which is what pulls your attention to the face before you notice anything else on the mat.

Reading a wolf at distance

A wolf's face is high contrast for a reason. Pale cheeks, a light muzzle and dark rims around the eye make the direction of a gaze legible from a long way off, useful to an animal that lives in a family group and settles most of its arguments without touching anyone. The print holds that contrast, so the expression still carries from across a room.

Clans and what they carried

Among the Anishinaabe the wolf is a doodem, a clan. You took your father's clan, you could not marry inside it, and each one held a duty to the wider community: leadership, protection, teaching, hunting. It also turned a stranger from four hundred miles away into a relative the moment his doodem matched yours.

Sizes and make

• Polyester fibre
• High quality digital 3D printing, which is why the fur and the flat red ground can share one surface
• 40 x 60 cm and 50 x 80 cm
• 160 g to 260 g depending on size
• Anti-slip, anti-static and anti-bacterial

The full wolf rug collection is worth a look for other faces.

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