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The head at the centre Wolves say a great deal with the face alone. A lifted lip, a wrinkled muzzle and a hard stare carry a clear message right across open ground, and that is the exact expression chosen for this buckle. The head...

The whole head as the outline Wolves signal with the face before they signal with the voice. Ears turn forward to press a point and flatten to give one up, the brow gathers, and the ruff of long guard hairs around the cheeks lifts...

A landscape inside a silhouetteThe design is a wolf head, and inside the outline sits an engraved forest under a starry sky. One shape holding another.It is a well-worn device in illustration and it works because it does two things at once: from across...

Sigils were a real systemThe idea of a family carrying an animal as its mark is not invented for the story. Medieval heraldry did exactly that, and wolves appear in it across Europe.The reason was practical rather than romantic. A man in full armour...

Pairs howl together on purposeTwo wolves howling is not two animals happening to make noise at the same time. Mated pairs duet, and the duetting is part of what holds the bond.The odd part is that they avoid matching. Rather than harmonising, each animal...

Worked in reliefIt sounds like a technicality and it is the difference between a pendant that looks flat and one that has depth.The head here is raised. The shape sits proud of the disc, so the muzzle, the ears and the ruff catch the...

The most reproduced image there isWolf, raised head, full moon behind. It is on more jewellery, more posters and more tattoos than any other wolf composition, and it has been for a century.The reason is design rather than nature. A circle behind a silhouette...

The right size to layerLayered chains only work when one piece leads and the others support it. Two statement pendants at once look like indecision.This is the one that leads. A crescent moon studded with raised stars curls around a wolf's head in deep...

Runes were just writingThey have acquired a reputation as a magical system. They were an alphabet, and people used them for what people use alphabets for.The surviving inscriptions are largely ownership marks, memorials to the dead, and messages of no importance whatsoever. Hundreds of...

Wild means not tameableA wolf raised by hand from a cub does not become a dog. It becomes a wolf that is used to you, which is a different and considerably more difficult thing.Dogs went through thousands of years of selection to want human...

People pick the wolf for the wrong reasonAsk why someone chose the wolf and the answer is usually independence. The lone wolf, standing apart, needing nobody.That is close to the opposite of the animal. A wolf's entire existence is family: it is born into...

Muzzle lifted, throat open, the wolf on this patch is caught mid howl. It is stitched in white and grey on a black ground, facing left, with LONEWOLF set in capitals across the top of the square. Howling is above all a pack habit,...

Light on a still face In noh theatre an actor alters the expression of a fixed mask by moving the head. Tipping it down into the light is called terasu, brightening. Tilting it away is kumorasu, clouding. Nothing on the mask itself moves, only...

A head erased, in the old sense Heraldry has a word for a beast shown as head and shoulders alone, its lower edge left ragged rather than cut clean: erased. This wolf is stitched exactly that way. The ruff breaks into loose points at...

Cropped down to the stare Two eyes and a band of bristling fur carry the whole design. The artwork strips the wolf back to the part that does the work: a wide horizontal strip of flat black, spiky strokes flying outward like wind through...