The Horns

The horns come off.

Four finishes, three spans, and a thread that stops where it should. Not made yet.

Not photographs

Everything below is a render. We have not printed a set yet, so nobody knows exactly what they look like, including us. Real photographs go here the moment the first ones come off the bed, and nothing is for sale until they do.

A single longhorn in matte white with a black rope wrap at the base, against a dark wall. — **Plain**Unpainted white. What comes off the printer, wrapped and nothing else. Concept render.

A single longhorn in matte black with a black rope wrap at the base, resting on a timber desk. — **Black**Flat, no shine, and the rope disappears into it. Concept render.

A single longhorn in antique gold with a black rope wrap at the base, on a pale oak bench. — **Gold**Sprayed and sealed. Warm rather than brassy. Concept render.

A single longhorn in brushed silver with a black rope wrap at the base, on a rustic dining table. — **Silver**The one that goes with the Silver and Gold skull. Concept render.

A carved bone white cow skull with gold horns, mounted on a pale plaster wall. — Gold horns on the standard carved skull. Concept render, like the four above.

Why they come off at all. A skull with a metre and a half of horn on it does not fit in a box any courier wants to carry, and freight is charged on the size of the carton, not the weight of what is in it. So the horns thread into the skull and travel flat beside it. You screw them in when it arrives. The thread stops at the right depth on its own, so there is no way to run it in too far.

What a set will cost

Bought with a skull, as a second pair in another finish or another length. Nothing here is buyable yet.

Set	Each horn	Span with the skull	Added to a skull
Mini	12 cm	30 cm	$35
Mini long	24 cm	55 cm	$35
Standard	25 cm	80 cm	$50
Long	60 cm, in two parts	150 cm	$79

The rope is not decoration. On every pair longer than the mini, the horn prints in two pieces and screws together. The wrap sits on the join, half on each side, because a black band reads as a choice and a visible seam reads as a mistake. We would rather tell you it is there than have you find it.

The skulls

The cow, ram and bison skulls take screw in horns. The bird skulls do not, and never will, but they are here because anyone who wants one of these usually wants another.

SPECIMEN 001

Mandala Longhorn, Carved Cow Skull

Bone white, carved over every surface, and wide enough that a room arranges itself around it. The first thing anyone says is where did you get that. The second is that nothing died for it.

$149.00

SPECIMEN 002

Norse Ram, Carved Ram Skull

The horns curl in tight and the knotwork follows them all the way round, so it is a different object from every angle you stand at. Including the one from the doorway.

$149.00

SPECIMEN 003

Mandala Longhorn, Silver and Gold

Silver across the carving, gold along the horns. The same skull as the bone one, doing something completely different to a dark wall.

$199.00

Norse Ram Mini, Small Carved Ram Skull

Knotwork cut into every plane of a ram skull that fits in one hand. One piece, horns included, and the quickest thing we make, which is the only reason it is this price.

$79.00

Mandala Longhorn Mini, Small Carved Cow Skull

The same skull at desk size. Three hundred millimetres tip to tip, carved over every surface, and small enough to live between the books instead of taking a wall.

$99.00

Muninn, Carved Raven Skull

Odin sent out two. He feared more for Muninn. This is the one that did not come home, with the knotwork cut into the bone and washed by hand.

$89.00

Second Plumage, Feathered Hawk Skull

It remembers what it used to wear. Feathers carved over the bone, stopping clean at the eye, and a row of teeth no hawk ever had.

$89.00

Hawk Skull, Blank

A bird of prey that never was. Everything about it is right except the row of teeth along the jaw, and we left those in on purpose.

$49.00

Bison Skull, Blank

No carving, no pattern, nothing to read. Just the shape of the thing, which turns out to be more than enough. The one for a wall that is already busy.

$99.00

Dry Season, Carved Bison Skull

Cracked earth cut right across the bone, so it looks like it has been lying out in the sun for a hundred summers. It has been on a shelf for a week.

$149.00

Told when the first set is printed.

One email when the horns are real and photographed. Nothing in between.

One email when something turns up. Nothing else, ever.