Monarchs, Swallowtails & the Quiet Fliers · Painted Field-Guide True
She has been our signature since the first tee — there is a small butterfly hiding on nearly everything we make. Here she gets the whole page: monarchs on the milkweed they need, a swallowtail with its decoy tails, a luna moth that only opens after dark. Painted, no text, on garment-dyed Comfort Colors cotton and fleece. Made to order in the USA, free U.S. shipping, no minimum.
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Two monarch sweatshirts — a winter roost on a fir bough, and the whole life cycle on one milkweed — plus poppies with a butterfly over them in fleece and cotton, and two summer monarchs with a true thing about each on its page. Watercolor, no text.
A winter roost of monarchs on a fir bough, wings closed against the cold, the first few opening as the sun reaches them. This is how they hang in the mountains of Michoacán — packed until the branch is more butterfly than needle.
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Pink milkweed in bloom with all four stages on one plant — a single egg, the striped caterpillar, a jade chrysalis and the butterfly. The whole life of a monarch, drawn like an old field guide.
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An orange-and-black butterfly over red poppies, cream daisies and blue flowers that look like they grew up beside each other rather than being placed. Vintage plate linework on 9.5 oz fleece.
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The same poppies and butterfly on garment-dyed cotton. Seven colors, S to 4XL.
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A monarch among purple spikes, daisies and golden blooms. That orange is a warning label — she stored milkweed toxins as a caterpillar, and a bird that tries her once leaves monarchs alone for good.
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An orange butterfly over a symmetrical bed of flowers with gold Art Deco detail. Open wings are solar panels: she cannot fly until she is warm, so she sits in the sun and waits.
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Monarchs
Our first design was a monarch, and she still gets the most pages. On milkweed, on coneflower, leading the migration out of a valley, or dressed in Art Deco gold — each one drawn from how she actually lives.
Common milkweed in flower with a monarch at the blooms. She can drink from almost anything, but she can only lay eggs on this one — no milkweed, no monarchs.
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A monarch among garden flowers in soft watercolor. The generation that flies to Mexico lives eight months instead of a few weeks, and none of them has ever been there before.
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A monarch settled on a coneflower, wings half open. Echinacea keeps making nectar late into the season, right when migrating monarchs need fuel most — then the goldfinches come for the seed.
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One big monarch leading a long stream of smaller ones up out of a mountain valley toward a low sun. Up to three thousand miles, and not one of them has made the trip before.
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The monarch in Art Deco dress: gilded linework and golden-age geometry on garment-dyed fleece, in five deep dyes made for gold.
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The same gilded monarch on heavyweight garment-dyed cotton.
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A monarch drawn like an old naturalist's engraving — fine linework and inky detail, one statement piece across the chest of a garment-dyed crewneck.
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Swallowtails, moths & the quiet fliers
The swallowtail with her decoy tails, Florida's zebra longwing on its passion vine, a luna moth with no mouth and a week to live, a day-flying moth in scarlet spots. Field-guide watercolor on garment-dyed cotton, S to 4XL.
A swallowtail drifting through wildflowers, field-guide style, in nineteen colors. The tails are decoys — a bird strikes the trailing edge, the wing tears, and she carries on without it.
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Our fuller take on the swallowtail, drawn the way a field-guide plate is: the wing held at the angle that shows every diagnostic marking. Thirteen shades.
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Florida's state butterfly on the one vine it can't live without. It eats pollen as well as nectar, lives for months instead of weeks, and sleeps in the same tree every night with dozens of others.
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A pale green luna moth among white moonflowers — both only open after dark. The moth has no mouth; it lives about a week, and the long tails spin in flight to confuse a bat's sonar.
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A crimson speckled moth among wildflowers — cream wings spotted black and scarlet. She flies by day and advertises that she tastes terrible, which is why she can.
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A mint-green butterfly above plum dahlias. Green is the rarest color on a butterfly wing and almost none of it is pigment — blue structure over yellow scales, and your eye does the mixing.
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A butterfly among loose botanicals, in eight colors. Butterflies clap their wings together above the body and squeeze the air out behind — closer to swimming than flapping, and almost silent.
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A blossoming branch in faded sepia, with four butterflies wearing every drop of color on the plate — sapphire, emerald, a teal mosaic, and one in formal black and cream.
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Three butterflies set on the page the way an old naturalist would, wings open to show every marking, in rich vintage color against a dark ground.
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A butterfly on a bouquet of deep pink stock and cream geraniums, in the careful colors of a nineteenth-century plate. Stock was once called gillyflower, for its clove-scented evenings.
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Butterflies rising in a loose column, smallest at the bottom, opening as they climb. Nothing holds them in formation; they simply happen to be going the same way.
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Butterflies and blooms in the long whiplash curves of Art Nouveau, where the border is not a frame around the flowers but part of the same growing line.
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Anemones gathered loose with butterflies settled among them. Named for the wind — they open completely, follow the light across the day, and close again at dusk.
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The Premium Line
Fewer marks, deeper dyes, a little gold. The Scatter Capsule and the gilded botanicals — designs that leave most of the shirt alone and let one thing shine.
Ten butterflies drifting from collarbone to ribcage in dusty rose, mauve and cream — and exactly one of them is gold. A group of butterflies really is called a kaleidoscope.
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Sweatshirts
Garment-dyed Comfort Colors 1566 fleece, 9.5 oz with a brushed inside — soft from the first wear and softer with every wash. Large front-centered chest print, nothing stitched on.
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One little butterfly drawn like a vintage French poster. She is our quiet signature — a small butterfly hides somewhere on nearly everything we make.
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Said with a smile
For the days that want a line to go with the wings. Easily distracted, choose joy, trust the timing — each with a butterfly drawn in, on the same garment-dyed cotton as everything else here.
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Hats
Embroidered trucker caps and a washed cotton dad hat — the butterfly stitched, not printed. The easy gift when you don't know their size.
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