Hellebore King Burial Noir Tee — White

A crowned stag drowning in a black bog — rendered in dense antique crosshatch, petals falling like ash. This is the kind of shirt people ask about.

The artwork is after a genuine old-master engraving from a museum collection — not a generated image, not a design. Real antique linework, Doré-weight crosshatching, the heavy ink-bleed dissolve of a 90s bootleg tee. On white cotton, that bone-and-black contrast hits hard: a vast stag, antlers flowering with open hellebores mid-shatter, head thrown back, eyes milky-white, its lower body dissolving into vertical ink drips that bleed down into empty darkness. A small two-line type lockup sits anchored far below the figure — minimal, deliberate, like a gravestone inscription. The whole thing reads as a single monochrome illustration that gets richer the longer you look at it.

The garment is a unisex soft heavyweight cotton — the kind that drapes without clinging, breaks in beautifully wash after wash, and sits right whether you size true or go up one.

Perfect for:

• Wearing over wide-leg black trousers or under an open flannel for an effortless dark layered look

• The collector who already owns too many band tees and wants something that actually has art behind it

• A coffee shop, a gallery opening, a record store — anywhere the fit matters

• Gifting to the person whose wardrobe runs entirely on gothic, botanical, or vintage noir

Specs:

Colour: White garment / black-and-cream monochrome print

Fit: Unisex — see size guide for measurements

Care: Machine wash cold, inside out, low tumble dry

If you've been looking for a dark nature shirt that doesn't feel mass-produced — this is it. Add to cart and wear something worth talking about.

After “Knielend meisje, dat een staande haas aan zijn poten vast houdt, RP-T-1941-42(V)”, Rijksmuseum, between 1904 and 1934 — Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

• Made to order — made fresh just for you
• A one-of-a-kind piece you won't find in big-box stores