Shih Tzu

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  Shih Tzu Humour Tee

  £42.00
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  Shih Tzu Portrait Tee

  £42.00
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  Shih Tzu Front Study Tee

  £42.00
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  Shih Tzu Archive Print

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  Shih Tzu Archive Hoodie

  £62.00
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  Shih Tzu Archive Sweatshirt

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  Shih Tzu Archive Tee

  £42.00
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The history of the Shih Tzu

Tibetan monasteries kept small lion-like dogs and sent them as gifts to the Chinese imperial court, where palace breeding produced the Shih Tzu proper. The Dowager Empress Cixi ran substantial kennels in the late nineteenth century, and after her death in 1908 the lines scattered; a handful of dogs reached England in the 1930s, and nearly every Shih Tzu alive descends from that very small founding group. The character is not what people expect of a small coated dog. Shih Tzus are neither anxious nor clingy but self-possessed, faintly amused, and expert at locating the single warmest patch of sun in a house. The archive drawing gives the face its proper width, keeps the undershot jaw honest, and lets the coat fall without a topknot, closer to the temple dog than the show ring.

About the 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 Shih Tzu is Archive No. 026. 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.