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Why it is almost always the headLook along any shelf of wolf jewellery and the head dominates. Full-body designs are the exception, and that is not laziness.Human beings are extraordinarily good at faces and comparatively poor at everything else. We identify a face in...

A turnskin in a black circle Old English built the word from two pieces: wer, meaning man, and wulf. The Romans had their own name for the same idea, versipellis, the turnskin, and it says something plainer than any later version: a creature that...

Face on and level with the lens, this grey wolf fills the panel from ear tips to chest against a field of clean white snow. The winter ruff is at its fullest, banded through grey, cream and rust, flaring wide around the neck. The...

Wolves pile together in deep snow in this photograph, muzzles overlapping, while one of them stretches its tongue up to lick the mouth of the wolf beside it. Flakes hang in the air and catch on the fur, a raised paw shows its pads...

Predator and prey, accuratelyThe wolf takes almost the whole sheet: a head facing straight out, pale blue eyes, the face filled with ornamental scrollwork in violet, teal and soft gold, painted loosely so the colour runs at the edges. Below the muzzle it darkens...

Odd numbers look betterThree cushions on a sofa look considered. Four look like a shop display, and two look like a hotel.The reason is that an even number naturally divides into matching pairs, and the eye finds the symmetry and stops. An odd number...

Arctic wolves hold a white coat all year, while grey wolves further south only pale in winter, as a dense undercoat grows in beneath longer guard hairs. Either way, a pale coat under a full moon reads as silver, and that is the light...

Skoll and Hati run through the Norse sky, one at the heels of the sun and one behind the moon. This print keeps that sky and gives it a single face. One wolf head fills the chest, its outline glowing electric blue against a...

Watercolour suits a wolf like this one. The head is built from washes of turquoise, ink blue and violet, and the paint has been left to run, so long drips fall from the ruff and the ears towards the foot of the bed, thinning...

A night scene that reads across a roomThe front of the bag is one picture. A wolf stands in silhouette on a rocky outcrop with its head back and its muzzle raised, and behind it a vast blue moon fills the sky, close enough...

Wolf pups are born with blue eyes that shift to amber within their first months, which makes the ink blue used here a nod to the young animal. The design is a single pair of eyes and the band of brow fur above them,...

A beaded hoop frames a winter valley on this set, and inside it a pack moves through the snow: wolves picking their way over blue drifts while another silhouette stands against a moonlit sky. The rim is strung with turquoise and clay coloured beads,...

Rainbow mandala petals frame this print on three sides, bands of orange, magenta and green radiating inwards like stained glass, and in the middle of them sits a single pale wolf head. The mandala and the galaxy The head fills the width of the...

Painted in nebula colours, the wolf on this cover comes forward out of a storm of magenta, violet and cold blue, with a pale cratered moon rising at the lower edge of the design. The eyes are the detail people notice first: one blue,...

A full moon takes up most of this print, drawn large enough that the craters and the dark seas show plainly across its cream face. In front of it a wolf stands on a low rock in flat silhouette, head tipped back, mid howl....