Bleak Boutique

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows 

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal tou ch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

Pillows

Add a personal touch to your space with amazing broadcloth pillows. These pillows are super soft and durable which means they are a fully functional piece of art that are meant to be used.

• Durable Polyester Broadcloth Fabric That is Soft To The Touch
• Fully Stuffed Pillow - Polyester/Polyfill
• Sewn Closure
• Dye-Sublimated Print Using Non-Solvent Water-Based Inks with No VOCs
• Spot Treatment with Damp Cloth; Tumble Dry

These contemporary earrings feature sleek coiled serpents, plated in 18 karat gold or platinum. The charm of the snake is echoed by the golden green of the faceted gemstones.

These dazzling faux gem earrings will make you feel like a modern-day Medusa. The brushed green stone and coiled snake are wonderfully kitschy, with a gold or platinum plating that adds to their chic style.

Witch Riding a Bat (1916)
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (Australia, 1888-1960)

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was an Australian illustrator of children's books, whose work mostly depicted magical creatures such as elves and fairies. Well before modern fairy-tale iterations saw Frozen's Anna and Elsa crowned as unexpected feminist icons, she was celebrating the power of the feminine in subtle ways. The drawings are often emotionally quite intense, depicting a fairy or a feminine child floating above a rocky landscape or scary deep sea, without fear.

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

Flight of Fancy... Off for the Sabbot (1927)
by William Mortensen (United States, 1897-1965)

In a roll call of the pioneers of modern photography, one name is never invoked. From the late 1920s to the 1950s, William Mortensen was one of the most famous and celebrated photographers in America. However, his subject matter – which veered towards the savage, indecorous, gothic and grotesque – as well as his use of montage and illustration, made him a pariah among the puritanical new guard in photography, led by Ansel Adams, who tried to write him out of history, and even called him "The Antichrist". 

Mortensen’s methods often made it hard to distinguish whether the results were photographs or not. He used traditional printmaking techniques, such as bromoiling, and developed many of his own. He would create composite images, scratch, scrape and draw on his prints, then apply a texture that made them look like etchings, thereby disguising his manipulations. Consequently, every print was unique. Ultimately, Mortensen’s aim was to create something that, for all intents and purposes, appeared to be a photograph, yet portrayed scenes so fantastic they caused wonder and astonishment in the viewer.

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

Safo (1881)
by Miguel Carbonell Selva (Spain, 1854-1896)

In a painting that goes by the title Safo, we see the figure of Sappho at the moment when she is about to leap to her death, plunging into the sea from the heights of Leukas.

Sappho was a famous Greek poet from the island of Lesbos who lived from c. 630 – c. 570 BC. She is sometimes called the ‘Tenth Muse’ because her abilities to play music and write poetry were legendary. An intriguing story about her death has been circulating for millennia, yet there is no evidence as to its veracity. The story holds that Sappho threw herself off the cliffs of the Greek island Leucadia because of her love for Phaon, a ferryman.

Some scholars believe that Sappho was a lesbian and many of Sappho’s poems can be interpreted as homoerotic. Indeed, the adjective ‘sapphic’ can refer to a certain type of lyric poetry or to lesbianism (ie: a sapphic relationship).

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

La Femme Chauve-Souris [The Bat Woman] (1890)
Albert Joseph Pénot (France, 1862-1930)

Albert Joseph Pénot was a French painter known for female nudes and landscapes. Today, he is more popularly and specifically recognized for a subset of paintings centering on women of darker, more macabre themes.

Pénot was concerned first and foremost with anatomically accurate portrayals of women. Singular female forms were the implicit focus of his work, whereas the worlds surrounding his characters are seldom realized beyond misty atmospheres and patches of shadow and light. Environments are incidental and are typically shrouded in haze, giving the figures themselves explicit priority.

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

"The Castle Rising Sisters" (a.k.a. "Welsh Witches' Tea Party")
Photograph by Unknown (England)

This photograph is commonly titled "Welsh Witches' Tea Party", but the subjects are not witches, nor are they Welsh. They are posed at Trinity Hospital, Castle Rising in Northampton, England. Trinity Hospital, Castle Rising was an Almshouse Charity, a place for unmarried (or widowed) poor women over age 56 to live.

The original requirements (circa 1600) were: “They must be of honest life and conversation, religious, grave and discreet, able to read, if such a one be had, a single woman, her place to be void on marriage, to be of 56 years at least, no common beggar, harlot, scold, drunkard, haunter of taverns, inns and alehouses.”

Residents of Trinity Hospital were asked to go to prayers three times each day to say the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed and a prayer ordered by the Founder for himself and his noble family.

Fast-forward to the present day and the criteria of this almshouse charity is not quite as strict. The only qualifying requirement is for single women from parishes of Castle Rising, North Wootton, and Roydon who are in reduced financial circumstances. There’s no dress code these days either, yet the residents take great pride in dressing in the “uniform” (such as in the picture) provided by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton for special occasions such as Founder’s Day.

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

The Destruction of Leviathan (1866)
Engraving by Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)

Destruction of Leviathan is based on the Biblical story of Leviathan referenced in the book of Job. Leviathan is described as a giant fire-breathing serpent so terrifying that just the sight of it would drive men insane. The Book of Isaiah later says that on Judgement day, God will slay the serpent. 

The serpent's face likely modeled on depictions of the great Midgard Serpent in Norse tales, and the battle scene itself was based on the Rig Veda, where Indra kills Vritra (the first born of dragons), with a thunderbolt. 

The Destruction of Leviathan represents the abolishment of darkness and insanity. In this work, Gustave uses his depiction of the creature to show the resemblances to terrible creatures described in other various religions to showcase his personal unification philosophy. 

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

Hypnosis (1904)
by Sascha Schneider (Germany, 1870-1927)

Sascha Schneider created various paintings and lithographs of naked men that helped transform the eroticized male into an ubiquitous public image for a brief moment in Germany's history. Schneider operated during an unusual period of German history known as the Health and Hygiene Movement, or Freikörperkultur. Seen as a response to the booming industrialization of the 18th and 19th centuries, the movement advocated for a return to traditional exercise and healthy living pursuits, involving a plethora of natural efforts and, among other things, nudity.

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

"The Vampire Queen" [Marie Schleinzer in Bat Costume] (1896)
Photograph by Atelier Adele Studio (Austria, 1862-1905)

Austrian stage actress Marie Schleinzer in costume for the ballet “Around Vienna” ("Rund um Wien"). In it, Schleinzer plays the allegorical force of evil. This is one of a series of photographs published in the Austrian photographic journal Photographische Correspondenz. 

The photography studio was owned by Adele Perlmutter-Heilperin and her two brothers, Max and William Perlmutter, who founded Atelier Adele in 1862. Adele was the first and only female "k.u.k. Hofphotograph" of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Vienna and was famous for her ability to photograph women.

Matte Poster

Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink On archival matte paper Shipped in heavy duty poster tube Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.

• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink
• On archival matte paper
• Shipped in heavy duty poster tube
• Heavy weight (230 gsm), thick base (9.5 mil), and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging.