No. 151Selkie
Selkie · “Land legs, sea heart.” — Garment-Dyed One-Ink Tee
Selkie · “Land legs, sea heart.” — Garment-Dyed One-Ink Tee
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Studio design: drawn with AI image tools to the iconography of Folk & Fairy, checked against that tradition's rules and approved by a person. Captions are set in real type, never generated. Made to order in the USA.
“Land legs, sea heart.” Selkie, Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry.
In the Northern Isles they say the seals are not always seals. Selkies live in the sea in grey pelts, but on certain nights they slip the skin off and walk the shore as people, dancing in the moonlight. The skin is everything: whoever hides it holds its owner on land, and no hearth can hold her once she finds it again. Told in Orkney and Shetland, and along Irish and Faroese coasts, it is a tale of longing for home.
The design and its line printed in a single ink on a heavyweight garment-dyed Comfort Colors tee in soft, lived-in colours: gold on the deep dyes, warm ink on the pale ones.
From The Deity Project, a living encyclopedia of the sacred.
Three ways to wear it: the classic tee is soft and lightweight ($29); the garment-dyed tee is heavier, with a softly faded, lived-in colour ($36); the garment-dyed one-ink tee prints the design and its line in a single ink, in soft earthy colours ($34).
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