Grey is never just greyA timber wolf looks grey only from a distance. Each guard hair is banded along its length with black, buff and rust, so the coat mixes optically instead of sitting flat, and the animal shifts in tone as it moves through bracken and low light. The artwork goes the other way and simplifies all of that into blocked greys and black, with the eyes and the open mouth picked out in red, so the snarling head reads clean against the jacket.Scale, and where a big head belongsTimber wolf is the old woodsman's name for the grey wolves of the northern forests, and the animal it describes is heavier through the neck and shoulders than most people expect. Artwork wants room to say that. On any jacket the largest uninterrupted panel is the back, with no pockets or zip cutting across it, which is why large wolf heads so often end up there in streetwear, and it is where this one sits. Close up you read the eyes. From across a room you read the shape of the skull.Coat colour varies more than the name suggests, as the black wolf shows.Warmth and sizingThe build is thick and hooded, organic cotton inside, polyester outside, with a reinforced zip at the front. Machine washable at 30 degrees. Sizing runs small across this range, so order one step up from the size you normally wear, and the size chart will confirm it. The wider range is in wolf clothes.Free worldwide shipping, 7 to 12 business days. 30 day returns. See our shipping policy for details.
