Design begins in Colorado · Made to order in the USA
A few new things from the shop, each with a story behind the artwork. Made to order, designed in Colorado, and built to be worn outside.
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Three of these are the start of something: a horse, a fox and a heron, each drawn in a single flowing white line with nothing filled in and nothing written on it — the Line Art collection. Beside them, the reddest bird in the woods, six songbirds on one branch, and a crane among magnolias. All garment-dyed Comfort Colors, made to order in the USA.
A horse in profile drawn in a handful of flowing white strokes, mane lifting as it turns to look at you. No fill, no text — the shirt color is the horse. Thirteen garment-dyed colors.
$29.95
A red fox sitting with its brush wrapped round its feet, glancing back over its shoulder — a dozen white lines on 9.5 oz garment-dyed fleece. Five colors, no words.
$54.95 launch price · then $59.95
A great blue heron in five lines, the bird that hunts by not moving. White ink on thirteen dark and mid-tone colors — the quietest shirt in the shop.
$29.95
A male scarlet tanager on a spring oak branch — the reddest bird in the eastern woods, and the one almost nobody sees because it sings from the very top of the canopy. Eight colors.
$59.95
Cardinal, bluebird, goldfinch, oriole, chickadee and cedar waxwing on the same flowering branch — the feeder morning that never quite happens, painted as if it did. Also as a tee.
$59.95 · tee from $29.95
A red-crowned crane lifting its wings among saucer magnolias. Magnolias predate bees; cranes pair for life and dance for decades. Neither has needed much revision. Eight colors, no text.
$32.95
Earlier this week
A heron in the one pool that never freezes, two chickadees on red dogwood, a loon before the mist lifts, and a plate of real snowflakes. Watercolor, no text, printed on garment-dyed Comfort Colors 1566 — made to order in the USA.
A great blue heron in the last open pool of a frozen marsh, cattails behind it. Four feet tall, five pounds, and it does not fly south — as long as one patch of water stays open, it will be standing in it in January.
$59.95
Two black-capped chickadees on red-twig dogwood in a light snow. Half an ounce each, outdoors all winter, and the stems turn that red only after the first hard frost — both at their best in the same weeks.
$59.95
A common loon riding low on still water at first light, mist on the lake behind it. The bird you hear before you see; no shoreline, no slogan, just the loon and its reflection.
$59.95
Six real snowflake forms painted the way a naturalist would lay them out on a plate — stellar dendrites, sectored plates, a hexagonal plate. Printed watercolor: no glitter, no rhinestones, no text.
$59.95
Earlier this week
An owl on the night shift, two hens who were out before you, the December birth flowers, the blue jay in cotton and in fleece, and a shelf of houseplants for the room you stay in. Watercolor, no text, printed on garment-dyed Comfort Colors — made to order in the USA.
A great horned owl on a snow-dusted branch, turned to look straight at you. They are the first bird to nest each year — on eggs in January with snow on their backs. No moon, no slogan; just the owl.
$59.95 · also as a tee, $32.95
A Buff Orpington and a Barred Rock in the snow, one standing watch, one scratching for corn. The schedule does not change for weather: six a.m., frozen water, two hens already out. No scarves on the chickens.
$59.95
The two December birth flowers, hand-tied with a gold ribbon. Holly is the tough one; the paperwhite is the bulb you set in pebbles in November so it blooms by Christmas. For the birthday that always gets folded into the holiday.
$32.95
A blue jay on a winterberry branch, the berries capped with snow. Winterberry is the holly that drops its leaves and keeps its fruit, so by December the bare branches are nothing but red — and the jays find them.
$32.95 · also as a hoodie, $74.95
The same jay in garment-dyed fleece, front and back: a small crest on the chest and the full branch across the back. If you keep a feeder, you know this bird — three peanuts at once and gone.
$74.95
A monstera, a trailing pothos and a small fern in clay pots on a sunlit shelf — the three plants everyone starts with. Nobody plans a plant collection; it starts with a pothos because someone said it was impossible to kill.
$32.95
Last week
Five front-and-back designs on Comfort Colors 1567 — a small crest on the chest and the full scene across the back. Garment-dyed heavyweight fleece, made to order in the USA, sizes S to 3XL.
A black cat halfway up a lit fir, reaching for the red one. Cats climb for the vantage point, and the tree is the tallest thing in the room. Small crest on the chest, the full scene across the back.
$74.95
A Highland cow in the snow with holly caught in its forelock. That fringe is working gear — it keeps snow and flies out of the eyes through a Scottish winter. Crest on the chest, full portrait on the back.
$74.95
A cardinal pair inside a wreath of snowy evergreen and holly. Cardinals don’t migrate and don’t fade for winter — the male stays this red all year, which is why he shows up so well against snow.
$74.95
Three chickadees on a snowy spruce bough. On the coldest nights a chickadee lets its body temperature drop by ten degrees or more to save energy — a controlled chill that gets it to morning.
$74.95
Red wooden skis against a snowy fence, lantern lit, and the chalet at dusk across the back. Before metal edges arrived in the 1930s, skis were solid hickory or ash and you waxed them by hand.
$74.95
Also new
A sleigh, two kinds of bells, holly and poinsettia, a cat in the tree, a Highland cow in the snow, a cardinal coming in to land, and two for the slopes. Garment-dyed Comfort Colors fleece, printed large on the chest, sizes S to 3XL.
A cranberry-red sleigh heaped with fresh-cut fir and hung with bells. Sleigh bells were never decoration — on packed snow a sleigh is nearly silent, and the bells were the warning.
$59.95
Two golden bells with a red velvet bow, set in snowy pine, holly, pinecones and hellebores. The kind that comes down from the attic once a year and goes straight on the door.
$59.95
A glossy holly sprig, berries just ripe. Holly keeps its leaves and colors its berries in the dead of winter, which is why it was brought indoors in December long before anyone thought of a tree.
$59.95
A hand-painted poinsettia sprig. The red “petals” are leaves; the real flowers are the small yellow buds at the center. The plant only turns once the nights grow long enough — right on schedule for December.
$59.95
Cream hellebores, a red rose, dried orange, cinnamon and pinecones tied with a red gingham bow. The hellebore is the one flower here that truly blooms in winter — the others are kept, dried or coaxed.
$59.95
A black cat up the Christmas tree, one paw on a red ornament, pretending it isn’t. The same scene as the hoodie, printed large on the chest.
$59.95
The snowy Highland cow, printed large. A double coat — long oily outer hair over a downy underlayer — is how the breed winters outdoors in the Highlands without ever seeing a barn.
$59.95
A male cardinal, wings spread, landing on a snowy pine bough. Only the male is this red; the female is warm brown with red at the edges, and the two feed each other seed in late winter.
$59.95
A tabby Maine Coon on a frosted sill with a candle and a sprig of pine, snow in the woods beyond. Tufted ears and snowshoe paws are built for Maine winters — it’s the official state cat.
$59.95
Red skis and poles leaning on a split-rail fence, lantern lit, pine heavy with snow. The night before a powder day, when the only thing left to do is check the forecast again.
$59.95
Skis in the snow, a lit timber lodge, a red gondola and the peaks going pink. Après-ski is simply French for “after skiing” — the Alps named the best part of the day and the rest of us agreed.
$59.95
A golden sunflower releasing its petals as small gold butterflies. Watercolor, printed large, for anyone who isn’t ready to let the season go either.
$59.95
Earlier this week
A barn owl on the evening shift, two chickadees in a pine heart, a Yorkie on present duty, and four from the vegetable patch. Sweatshirts on garment-dyed Comfort Colors fleece, tees on the same heavyweight cotton as always. Sizes S to 3XL on fleece, S to 4XL on tees.
A barn owl leaving the oak at sundown. That heart-shaped face is a dish built for hearing — it can take a mouse in total darkness by sound alone.
$59.95
Two chickadees in a heart of snowy pine. Pairs form inside the autumn flock and stay together through the winter, then nest in spring.
$59.95
A Yorkie on a tartan blanket, posted beside the gifts. Seven pounds of terrier, fully convinced the job is his.
$59.95
Five heirloom carrots, orange to deep purple. Carrots were purple and yellow for centuries — the orange ones only took over in the 1600s.
$59.95
Red, orange and yellow heirlooms with the blossoms still on. A fruit to a botanist, a vegetable to the U.S. Supreme Court — it ruled in 1893.
$59.95
Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly, all on one milkweed plant. Monarch caterpillars eat nothing else, which is why the plant matters so much.
$59.95
Tomatoes, peppers, carrots, eggplant, radishes and garlic — the whole late-summer bed in one bunch. For the week when it all ripens together.
$32.95
A red beet, a golden one and a Chioggia with its candy-striped rings. Slice the striped one raw — the rings fade as soon as it is cooked.
$32.95
Also this week
Trains, trucks, a village with every light on, and a greenhouse that refused to close for the season. Garment-dyed Comfort Colors fleece, made to order — so they ship in a few days, not in December.
A steam locomotive with a wreath on the front, pulling lit carriages over a snowy stone viaduct. The last train in before the holiday.
$59.95
A vintage red pickup with the tree in the bed and the village behind it. Someone argued for the taller one and won.
$59.95
A hillside village with the church lit, a stone bridge and the tree up in the square. Every window on.
$59.95
An open iron gate, lanterns lit, and a snowy path to a cottage with the lights on. Nobody has shut it for the season.
$59.95
A Victorian conservatory glowing in the snow. Somebody is still tending things in there, and the glass is holding the warmth.
$59.95
Cream leather skates with holly, pinecones and hellebores — the pair that came down from the attic every December.
$59.95
Two chickadees who have claimed the pinecone wreath on the door. You can still use the door. Carefully.
$59.95
Three chickadees among the pinecones. They never leave for winter — on a bitter night a chickadee can lower its own body temperature to ride out the cold.
$59.95
Late September
A folk-art garden run, a few things that make a sound, and three birds. Same garment-dyed Comfort Colors cotton as everything else in the shop — we simply wanted to see this group priced a little kinder. Sizes S to 4XL.
Two doves, one good perch. Doves are among the very few birds where both parents produce crop milk, so the work really is split.
$29.95
A rooster crows about two hours before dawn on an internal clock. The sunflowers swing east overnight to be facing the sunrise before it happens.
$29.95
Nobody sets out to have a garden. A painted watering can and the flowers that came after it.
$29.95
A hammock, an open book, and the whole afternoon. For anyone who has ever answered "nothing" and meant it happily.
$29.95
Vintage headphones growing black-eyed Susans, which advertise in an ultraviolet bullseye a bee can see and we cannot.
$29.95
Painted wooden tops and blue cornflowers. A toy with no instructions, which is why it never went out of date.
$29.95
A green radio wrapped in sweet peas — a flower that only keeps blooming as long as you keep cutting it.
$29.95
A hibiscus bloom lasts a single day. The plant simply opens another one tomorrow, which is a kind of optimism.
$29.95
Crowned cranes are the only cranes that can perch in a tree. Every other crane in the world sleeps standing in water.
$29.95
No bird is actually blue. There is no blue pigment in feathers — the color is structure, bending light back at you.
$29.95
A new collection
Painted scallops, diamonds and dots. Flat color, bold outlines, and the kind of decoration people put on things they used every day — watering cans, weather vanes, dovecotes, barn doors. Twelve designs so far, and growing.
Mid September
Three birds, a beekeeper's calendar, and a small set for the kitchen table. All on garment-dyed Comfort Colors cotton, made to order in the USA.
A house finch among sunflowers. His red is borrowed from what he eats, which is why some are crimson and others orange.
$32.95
A woodpecker in dogwood. The drumming is not feeding, it is a broadcast, which is why they choose gutters and hollow limbs.
$32.95
A robin in apple blossom. They hunt by listening for movement under the soil, which is why one on a lawn seems to be thinking.
$32.95
A beekeeper's calendar. Dandelion, clover, linden, goldenrod, aster, and the summer dearth in between. The first of The Apiary.
$34.95
Blueberry pancakes and a jug of syrup. The blueberry is barely a century old as a crop, found wild in the pine barrens in 1911.
$32.95
Strawberry crepes on the good plates. A strawberry is not a berry, and the specks on the outside are the actual fruits.
$32.95
Olive oil, bread and blue gingham. Olive oil is fruit juice, and the trees outlive the people who plant them.
$32.95
A monarch, drawn the way the old plates drew them. Six garment-dyed shades, from White through Chambray to Blossom.
$32.95
Also new
Garment-dyed Comfort Colors fleece for the first cool mornings, soft from the very first wear. See the Fall collection →
Stay until your cup grows cold. Cinnamon is tree bark dried until it curls, and apples float because a quarter of each one is air.
From $59.95
A heart made of things that grow. Garden soil holds a seed bank that can wait decades for someone to turn it up into the light.
From $59.95
Everything else can wait until after tea. The leaves keep steeping while you talk, so the second cup is always stronger than the first.
From $59.95
A softer, lighter weight than the garment-dyed fleece above, and a gentler price. Same artwork, printed large across the chest.
Goldfinches nest late, in midsummer, because they wait for thistle down to line the nest with.
From $44.99
Two birds on a flowering branch, in teal, gold and rust. No hurry anywhere in it.
From $44.99
Eucalyptus is so low in energy that a koala sleeps twenty hours a day. It is not laziness, it is arithmetic.
From $44.99
A sloth moves slowly enough that algae grows in its fur, which is exactly the camouflage it needs.
From $44.99
A rotary phone among roses. You had to stand where the cord reached, which meant the call got your whole attention.
From $44.99
A worked-in palette and a jar of brushes. Every color on it is one she mixed twice and liked the second time.
From $44.99
Also new
Garment-dyed Comfort Colors cotton, for wherever it is still warm.
No electricity anywhere in a gramophone. The horn amplifies by shape alone.
$32.95
Flowers for a Tuesday. Poppy stems bleed a milky sap and must be seared to last.
$32.95
A rocket pushes against nothing. It carries the very mass it throws behind it.
$32.95
Diners were built to be moved, shipped whole by rail. That is why they look like railcars.
$32.95
Keep reading
Every piece carries something true about the thing it is drawn from. Here is the rest of what is new.
A dovecote used to be a privilege, not a birdhouse. Under the droit de colombier in pre-revolutionary France only the nobility were allowed to keep one, and the birds fed freely on everyone else's grain — resented enough that it was abolished outright on the night of 4 August 1789. The doves are unusual in a quieter way: both parents produce crop milk, and both feed the young with it. In this house the work really is split. Only the perch is contested.
Shop Whoever Gets There First — $29.95 →
Both of them know the sun is coming before it arrives. A rooster does not crow because the light wakes him — kept in constant dim conditions he still starts roughly two hours before subjective dawn, running on an internal clock, and the top-ranking bird crows first while the others wait their turn. The sunflowers do the same thing from the other side: young stems track the sun west all day, then swing back overnight so that by sunrise they are already facing east. Nobody in this picture is reacting to the morning. They are all expecting it.
Shop First One Up — $29.95 →
The hammock is not a modern invention and it was never meant for holidays. Columbus's crews found people in the Caribbean sleeping in woven cotton nets slung between trees, well off the ground and away from what lived on it, and within a century the design had been adopted by European navies because it was the only bed that stayed level while the ship did not. It took four hundred years for it to become a symbol of doing nothing. It started out as the practical option.
Shop This Counts as Plans — $29.95 →
Every song had a reason. A mixtape cost exactly as long as it played — you recorded in real time, so a ninety-minute tape took ninety minutes of sitting there with a finger near the pause button. Get the order wrong near the end and you started again. That is what made it mean something: it was not curation, it was time.
Shop Made You a Mixtape — $32.95 →
Something warm. Someone to share it with. The instruction to let it cool is not fussiness: plums are unusually high in pectin, and pectin only sets as the temperature drops, so the filling thickens in the twenty minutes after it leaves the oven. Cut it warm and a little juice escapes onto the plate. Nobody who has ever cut one early regrets it.
Shop Saved You a Slice — $32.95 →A woodpecker, a stag beetle, a honeybee and a butterfly, each framed by gold geometry and garden color. See the Art Deco collection →
The garden wakes to a different kind of music. The drumming is not work — a woodpecker hunting insects taps quietly and irregularly, listening between strikes. Drumming is a fast, even burst chosen for volume rather than food, which is why they pick hollow limbs and metal gutters. It is a broadcast: this branch is mine, and I am here.
Shop The Morning Drummer — $32.95 →
A small creature. A royal entrance. Those enormous jaws cannot really bite — they are antlers, used to wrestle rivals off a branch, and so oversized that his grip is weak. The female, with far smaller jaws, pinches harder. And the larvae spend years in rotting wood before emerging as adults that live only a few weeks.
Shop The Emerald Guardian — $32.95 →
Small wings. A whole garden. A foraging honeybee works between fifty and a hundred blooms before returning to the hive, and having started on one kind of flower she stays with that kind for the whole trip. Botanists call it flower constancy. She is not wandering. She is working a route.
Shop Keeper of the Golden Garden — $32.95 →
A little sunshine, with wings. A butterfly resting with its wings spread open is not posing — it cannot fly until its flight muscles reach about 80 degrees, and it has no way to make that heat itself. So it finds a sunlit surface, opens its wings flat, and waits. The open wings are solar panels.
Shop Where Summer Lands — $32.95 →There are more than six hundred designs in the shop, each with a story on its page. Browse every collection →
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