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October 2024 bandana by Kelsey Wickwire
This bandana is:
 
  • 100% Japanese cotton
  • Made in the USA
  • Artist-designed
  • Printed using eco-friendly, water-based ink
  • LIMITED EDITION! once they are sold out, they are never printed again
  • 22”x22"
  • Hand cut and sewn with a folded flat hem
 
Meet our artist for October- Kelsey Wickwire (@coyotewest_)

Kelsey Wickwire, occasional alias Coyote West, is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist, currently focusing in pastel and colored pencil works on paper. Her art focuses on themes of grief and growth, drawing on the natural world, universal symbolism, and iconic western imagery with a cosmic edge. She grew up in Southern California and has lived in various places up and down the American West.

She currently lives and works in Western Montana.
 

October 2024 bandana by Kelsey Wickwire

$24.00Price

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    Find a more detailed history of the bandana here.  One of our favorite passages from this history...

     

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    Finally, a well-made bandana, when unfolded and laid flat, should communicate something to you. It might tell a story, or it might evoke some far-away time and place or something nearer and dearer. 

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