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.
“Don't forget the butter.” Tomte, Porridge or Poetry.
In Scandinavian folklore the tomte, or nisse, is the small grey-clad guardian of the farm. Unseen, he tends the animals by night, braids the horses' manes and keeps the place in good order. He asks little: courtesy, and a bowl of Christmas porridge with a pat of butter on top. Forget the butter and tales say he turns sulky, or worse. Treat him well, and the farm is said to prosper. Today families still set out a bowl on Christmas night.
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).
