French Bulldog

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TeeGarment-dyed heavyweight cotton£42.00Choose tee →

French Bulldog Archive Sweatshirt in Oxford Navy

SweatshirtHeavyweight brushed sweatshirt£58.00Choose sweatshirt →

French Bulldog Archive Hoodie in Bottle Green

HoodieHeavyweight college hoodie£62.00Choose hoodie →

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

Archive No. 007 / UTILITY group

The French Bulldog story

FRANCE

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.

Nottingham lace workers took their small bulldogs with them when the trade moved to Normandy in the 1860s, and the type took root in France as a ratter and a fixture of Paris cafes and markets. American fanciers later insisted on the upright bat ear over the rose ear, and that argument settled the breed's face for good. The traits owners live with are unmistakable: the snoring, the wide catalogue of grumbles and yodels standing in for a proper bark, the head tilt held a beat longer than necessary, and a body that genuinely cannot swim. Weight in the drawing falls on the ears and on the folds above the nose, the two features carrying the entire expression, with the remainder of the plate kept deliberately spare.

Archive number: No. 007 of 39
Group: Utility
Origin: FRANCE
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 French Bulldog 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 French Bulldog is Archive No. 007. 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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