DBD · Hand bleached reverse art · Brunswick, Maine
One of a kind.
By design.
Real botanicals, custom stencils, and hand-cut graphics on heavyweight cotton. Bleached by hand — never printed, never duplicated. Shirts, and now bandanas for the dog too.
The lineup
Botanicals & stencils. One-of-a-kind art on heavyweight cotton.
Every design in every color. $7 flat rate shipping anywhere in the US. Made to order, one piece at a time — can take 1 to 2 weeks depending on how many orders are ahead of you.
Printed on
Hanes Beefy-T
6.1 oz100% ring spun cottonrelaxed fit
The Botanical Line
Real leaves laid by hand — sumac, cedar, fern, and whatever the season drops.
3 designs
The originalSumac
$50.00Staghorn sumac · Rhus typhina
Feathered fronds, deep amber burn. The original.
NewCedar
$50.00Northern white cedar · Thuja occidentalis
Fanned sprays that branch like frost. The North Woods one.
Fern
$50.00Ostrich fern · Matteuccia struthiopteris
Lacy, layered, almost too fine to believe it's bleach.
The Graphic & Stencil Line
Custom cut shapes, celestial icons, wildlife silhouettes, and bold geometric work.
Any shape you can picture — a logo, a silhouette, a bold graphic — can be made as a 1-of-1.
Start a custom design
New · for dogs and people
The Bandana
The same leaves, sized for a good dog. Or your back pocket. One size, folded to fit a collar or a back pocket — pick any design from the lineup and it gets bleached the same way the shirts do.
$10.00 on its own · $55.00 with a shirt
Recent work
Fresh off the line.
Real shirts, real light, no studio. What came out of the shop lately.
Fern, out in the world
Cedar on royal blue
Cedar on azalea
Sumac on antique cherry red
Sumac on forest green
Sumac on electric green
Fern on black
Bull thistle on black, heavy burn
Gathering day
How it's made
A leaf or a blade. Then the bleach.
- 1Draft and gather. We pick real leaves from the Maine woods — sumac, cedar, fern, etc. — or cut a custom stencil by hand from a clean vector design.
- 2Lay and spray. Everything is arranged on heavyweight cotton — stencils held flat for crisp edges, leaves laid flat for soft organic shadows — then carefully misted with bleach. The exposed fabric lightens to whatever that blank burns to; the design keeps its ground.
- 3Fix, wash, and wear. The bleach is neutralized, the piece washed and dried. What's left is burned into the fibers — permanent, soft, and yours alone. It will never crack, peel, or fade.
1-of-1 custom orders
Have a concept, logo, or local leaf in mind?
A stencil of your business logo. A favorite graphic. The maple at the family camp, or leaves from the yard you grew up in. Send us your leaves, logos, or design ideas and we'll build the stencil or lay the flora for a piece that's strictly yours.
Start a custom design
The maker
One artist. Two hands. Every shirt.
Born and raised in Brunswick, Maine — working since the paper route days, now turning bleach, blades, and a lifetime of drive into wearable one of ones.
Meet the artistLimited drops
Small batches. Numbered. Gone.
A few times a year we run a numbered batch — different blanks, seasonal leaves, new stencil cuts, new colorways. They don't last. Get on the list and you'll hear first.