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An animal doing nothing in particularAlmost every wolf image sold anywhere shows the animal at maximum drama: howling, snarling, standing on a rock. This one is grooming itself.It is a completely ordinary thing for a wolf to be doing, and it is almost never...

A pair, and the pairing is realTwo wolves rather than one, which reads completely differently on a sofa. A lone animal is a statement about the owner; a pair is about a relationship.The design is a close portrait of both heads filling the whole...

Blue does something measurable to a roomCool colours appear to recede and warm colours to advance. It is a genuine perceptual effect, and decorators have used it for as long as there have been decorators.A blue-dominated room reads as slightly larger and calmer than...

A head reads across a roomA cushion is looked at from three or four metres far more often than from close up, and that decides which designs work on one.Faces are what human vision handles best. Whole regions of the brain do nothing else,...

Watercolour that holds its shape Watercolour is a loose medium and this artist has let it run. The brown wolf on these socks dissolves into drips below the jaw, as though the paint were still wet, while above that the head is drawn tight:...

Every version of the story shows the change happening in the same place. Ovid's Lycaon drops to all fours and the poem lingers on his mouth. Medieval tellings watch the jaw lengthen. The films hold on the face while the brow thickens and the...

Jaws open, head lowered, a mane of layered points sweeping back from the skull: the direwolf of House Stark is a heraldic beast that looks caught mid movement rather than posed. This charm carries that profile in silver toned metal, the mane a run...

Where the border gives way The wolf's muzzle pushes clean through the right hand edge of this patch, so the outline follows the animal there rather than closing as a circle. The head is worked in white and grey line stitching over a gold...

Cut shapes and open jaws Ink black shapes carry most of this wolf, cut to hard edges with almost no gradient anywhere. The ruff finishes in jagged spikes, the ears come to sharp points, and the muzzle opens on a set of pale fangs...

Hard subject, soft frameA predator's head surrounded by blossom is not a compromise between two ideas. It is a deliberate technique, and it is everywhere in tattooing for a reason.Flowers around a hard subject do two jobs. They soften the edge where the design...

The most restrained thing we carryAlmost every wolf tattoo reaches for impact: heavy lines, bared teeth, high contrast. This one does the opposite, and fine work is considerably harder to design than bold work.With thin lines there is nothing to hide behind. The drawing...

What the headdress actually isThe feathered war bonnet is not generic Native American dress. It belongs to a small number of Plains nations, and within those it was earned rather than worn by choice.Individual feathers marked specific acts. A bonnet was assembled over years,...

The wolf on the cuff of this beanie faces straight out of its stitched square, dark through the brow and ears, pale along the cheeks, with a black muzzle and nose, a rust orange tongue showing below them, and the word wolf stitched along...

45 x 45 cm is the standard sizeWorth knowing because it makes everything easier. Forty-five centimetres square is the most common cushion size in Europe, which means pads are stocked by every furniture shop, department store and supermarket homeware aisle there is.You are never...

Not dominance, parentsOlder copy sold this as a symbol of dominance and strength. That reading comes from a study of unrelated captive wolves penned together in the 1940s, and the researcher who popularised the word alpha spent years asking people to stop using it.What...