tame unicorns in vintage-rose-clay tones
This print is designed with a faux-aged finish. I've intentionally added subtle 'crackling' and mottled texture to give the appearance of a faded plaster fresco. There's a cute little floral that I designed to coordinate with this print: You'll find the colorways of this design below, but if you have a special request, let me know and I'll try to accommodate your project's needs: https://www.spoonflower.com/designs/14635249-villa-fresco-taming-unicorns-smokey-lavender-by-gartmanstudio https://www.spoonflower.com/designs/14633783-villa-fresco-taming-unicorns-full-vintage-color-by-gartmanstudio https://www.spoonflower.com/designs/14631022-villa-fresco-taming-unicorns-warm-grey-by-gartmanstudio https://www.spoonflower.com/designs/14635532-villa-fresco-taming-unicorns-soft-vintage-rose-clay-by-gartmanstudio This was my design challenge entry for "Italian Villa Wallpaper", " In the 14th century, the Italian villa was a big country home which stood at the heart of an agricultural estate. These houses quickly became the pursuit of entertainment and leisure, and represented an escape from nearby busy streets, noise and crowds." I had fun researching 14th century villas, and thought of the young teen girls who were being whisked off to the countryside by their parents to their enormous country villa estates...where they would wander off to the far corners of their properties during the warm summer days to try to lure and tame the wild unicorns. I incorporated two types of dogs whose origins are also Italy: The Bolognese; the fluffy little companion who spends his days in his mistress's lap being brushed and petted, and a Cirneco dell'Etna, which would have been most likely used as one of the family's hunting dogs. In my research I came across some funny quotes from https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/world-medieval-dogdom: "Toy dogs, like fashionable clothes, always seem to provoke moralists’ ire, and one 16th-century critic, declaring that they were sought for to satisfy ‘Wanton women’s willes’, condemned them as ‘instruments of follie to play and dallie withal, in trifling away the treasure of time, to withdraw their minds from more commendable exercises, a sillie poore shift to shun their irksome idleness’. The smaller ‘these puppies’ are, he goes on to say, the more pleasure they provide as "plafellows for minsing mistresses to beare in their bosoms to succour with sleep in bed and nourish with meate at board, to lie in their laps and licke their lips as they lie in their wagons and coches ... Some of this kind of people delight more in their dogs, that are deprived of all possiblities of reason, than they do in children that are capable of wisdome and judgement"