Border Collie

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TeeGarment-dyed heavyweight cotton£42.00Choose tee →

Border Collie Archive Sweatshirt in Oxford Navy

SweatshirtHeavyweight brushed sweatshirt£58.00Choose sweatshirt →

Border Collie Archive Hoodie in Bottle Green

HoodieHeavyweight college hoodie£62.00Choose hoodie →

PrintMatte fine art print, two sizes£30.00Choose print →

Archive No. 001 / PASTORAL group

The Border Collie story

ANGLO-SCOTTISH BORDER

Drawn as an original engraving in its own landscape and printed as a full archive plate. Comes as a tee, a sweatshirt, a hoodie, a print and a pack of cards, from £30.00.

On the hill farms either side of the Anglo-Scottish border, a dog was wanted that could work half a mile out, take a whistle across a valley, and move sheep without touching them. Most modern Border Collies trace back to Old Hemp, born in Northumberland in 1893, whose quiet, unfussy style became the template for the breed. The result is a dog that does not switch off. Owners know the crouch and the fixed stare, the eye, and the way it gets turned on children, cyclists, the shadow of a washing line, or a football that is never allowed to escape. Drawn for the archive, the portrait holds the head low and the gaze forward, because the collie's whole character sits in that stare rather than in the coat.

Archive number: No. 001 of 39
Group: Pastoral
Origin: ANGLO-SCOTTISH BORDER
Comes as: Tee, Sweatshirt, Hoodie, Print
From: £30.00
Printed: In the UK for UK orders, in the USA for North America

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The Border Collie plate

Every plate in the archive is drawn from scratch as a natural-history engraving, the breed set in the country it was made for rather than floated on a white background. The Border Collie is Archive No. 001. The drawing is printed as a full plate across the back of the garment, nothing on the front, and the same plate is used for the print and the cards.

Garments are made when they are ordered, so nothing is printed until it is wanted and nothing is held in a warehouse. UK orders are printed in the UK and North American orders in the USA, which keeps the parcel on the same side of the ocean as the person waiting for it. If it is not right when it arrives, it can go back within 30 days.

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