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Fine horizontal ribs run the length of this olive strap, set close together so the webbing carries a ridged surface, with a denser band of the same weave holding each edge. Weave and colour together Olive is the colour that sits next to canvas,...

Wolves read a boundary with their noses. A pack marks the edge of its range at scent posts along the trails it patrols, and a travelling wolf can tell from a single post who holds the ground ahead and how lately they passed through....

Territorial boundaries in wolf country work as broad bands rather than lines, a zone several kilometres deep where two neighbouring packs both leave marks and neither settles. Deer gather in those buffer strips for exactly that reason. A boundary drawn well ends up sheltering...

A wolf's head ringed in scrollwork Heraldry gave its beasts a frame. An animal was drawn head on, jaws open, and held inside a border so it could be read across a field at distance. The buckle on this belt follows the same logic....

Torcs are among the oldest ornaments in European metalwork, and the makers who shaped them always saved their best work for the same place: the two open ends. Here both terminals are wolf heads, jaws set, muzzles turned slightly inward so they face one...

Twin strands and an anchor catchTwin strands of black cord run side by side around the wrist here, each one woven in a fine chevron that gives the surface a soft grain rather than a hard shine. Doubling the cord changes the whole look,...

A head, worn highThe wolf sits on top of the band and takes up most of the finger: muzzle raised and turned to the side, ears swept back, mouth closed, as though the animal has just caught something on the wind.The band behind it...

Modelled in the roundThe wolf is sculpted rather than engraved: a head in profile with the jaws open, the mane worked in overlapping layers and the recesses darkened so the detail stands out. It sits at one end of a slim band that stays...

A claw rather than a headThe raised round face carries three curved claws laid side by side against a darkened ground, with interlaced knotwork filling the space beside them and running on down both shoulders. It is the shape people notice before they identify...

Bared teeth are hard to get rightMost wolf pendants show a calm head, and there is a reason for it: an aggressive expression is far more difficult to render at this size.A snarl lives in small features. The lift of the lip, the set...

How trackers tell a wolf from a dogThe print itself is nearly useless. A large dog leaves a paw mark close enough to a wolf's that arguing from a single track is a good way to be wrong.The trail is what gives it away.A...

Minimal is the harder briefA design with very few lines has nothing to fall back on. Every stroke is load-bearing, the proportions have to be right, and there is no ornament to distract from a weak shape.That is why pared-back pieces tend to be...

A wolf head in profileThe pendant is a single wolf head seen from the side, muzzle open and teeth showing, the ear swept back along the line of the skull.The neck and the jaw are filled with Celtic interlace. The bands cross and pass...

The moon illusionEveryone has seen a huge moon sitting low over the horizon and reached for a camera, and everyone has been disappointed by the photograph.The camera is right. The moon is the same size in the sky whether it is on the horizon...

The axe was the ordinary weaponFilms give every Viking a sword. Most of them never owned one.A pattern-welded sword was months of a skilled smith's work and cost roughly what a small herd of cattle did. It was inherited, named, and buried with people...