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ARCHIVE No. 025
West Highland White Terrier
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Archive No. 025 / TERRIER group
The West Highland White Terrier story
SCOTLAND
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.
White was a safety measure. The account attached to the breed is that Colonel Edward Malcolm of Poltalloch, in Argyll, lost a dark-coated terrier to a mistaken shot and afterwards bred only white ones, so that a dog working among rock and heather could never be confused with a fox. Whether or not the story is exact in every detail, the reasoning is sound and the colour has been fixed since the nineteenth century. The job was fox, otter and vermin in hard ground, and the character matches it: independent, opinionated, entirely satisfied with its own judgement, and prepared to dig on very little evidence. The archive plate leaves the harsh outer coat rough rather than smoothing it, setting the dark eyes and nose against the white, which is the whole point of the breed.
- Archive number
- No. 025 of 39
- Group
- Terrier
- Origin
- SCOTLAND
- Comes as
- Tee, Sweatshirt, Hoodie, Print
- From
- £30.00
- Printed
- In the UK for UK orders, in the USA for North America
The West Highland White Terrier 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 West Highland White Terrier is Archive No. 025. 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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teeWest Highland White Terrier Archive Tee
3 colours
sweatshirtWest Highland White Terrier Archive Sweatshirt
3 colours
hoodieWest Highland White Terrier Archive Hoodie
3 colours
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