We believe in
old stories,
on new paper.
A lot of the most beloved images in the world — Tenniel's Hatter, Rackham's wind-bent fairies, Dulac's mermaids, Jüttner's Snow White, the rubber-hose steamboat skipper of 1928 — are in the public domain. They belong to everybody. Which usually means they sit in archives, scanned at 300dpi and forgotten.
This shop is a small attempt to pull them back into the world. Every design here starts with a century-old plate, gets redrawn by hand, and becomes something new — not the old image copied, but a new piece in the same key. The source gets credited on the product page. The art gets printed on a tee or a poster or a mug.
We don't use Disney designs. We don't use Warner, Hanna-Barbera, or any character still under copyright. There is a century of visual storytelling that was built by illustrators whose names almost nobody knows anymore — Walter Crane, Franz Jüttner, Edmund Dulac, Virginia Frances Sterrett. Their work is in the clear. Their names deserve to ride along.
Every piece is printed on demand by Printify and shipped from their network. That means nothing sits in a warehouse, nothing gets thrown out, and every item is only made when somebody wants it. It's a slower model. We think it's the right one.
If a piece speaks to you, take it home. If it doesn't, keep scrolling. The point isn't to make you buy anything — the point is to put a little more of this old, beautiful work back into circulation.
— Mikee