"Your Note Survived The Flowers" Heavy Blend Unisex Crewneck Sweatshirt

Every letter is its own scrap of torn cream paper, cut out in heavy slab-serif capitals and pasted down slightly crooked, the way a ransom note is assembled from old newsprint. The grey fills are mottled and speckled with halftone dots, and a few letters are worn nearly through; the second E in Survived is paler than its neighbours, as if it came from a different page. Your Note arches along the top, Survived, The and Flowers stack tight underneath, and the sentence ends with a round full stop on a scrap of its own.

Between the lines hangs a wilted rose in fine engraving hatching, turned away so you see the spiky sepals and the swelling of the calyx instead of the face of the bloom. Its petals have dried into ragged, curled sheets. A thorny stem cuts diagonally down through the V of Survived and on through Flowers, and a ribbon knotted just under the bloom loops out to the left, then trails in one long curl to the right. On the crewneck sweatshirt the whole collage reads as a keepsake: the bouquet is gone and the card that came with it is still in the drawer.

• The palette holds to cream and grey-black, with no third colour anywhere.
• A second length of ribbon slips behind the top line and curls down past the petals on the right.
• The thorns are drawn singly, each with its own small shadow.

It suits anyone who keeps the cards, and it makes a quiet gift for someone who once wrote you one.