Rihla: Camel on the Dune with Arabic Calligraphy

The Arabic word رحلة (rihla) means journey, the word great travellers like Ibn Battuta gave their books. A lone camel, packed for the road, crosses a dune under a low sun with its footprints trailing behind, carved like a linocut; the dune breaks into sketch lines below, and the word sits under it in classic Naskh calligraphy. Three threads; the light parts are the hoodie itself. The smallest size is the word alone, for the left chest, so one hoodie can carry the word on the front and the whole piece on the back.

• 3 sizes included: 240 × 309 mm (36 × 54 cm jacket-back frame), 195 × 255 mm (8 × 12 in hoop) and 90 × 54 mm (4 × 4 in hoop). Each size is digitized at its own size, not scaled.
• 3 thread colours, with Madeira Polyneon codes and the colour order on each size's production sheet.
• Light fabric: made for cream, bone, white and sand hoodies and sweatshirts (the sand-gold dune lines show best on cream and white). The light parts of the design are the fabric itself, so skip black and dark colours.

Best on fleece hoodies and heavy sweatshirts, with a medium cut-away stabilizer and a water-soluble topping on fleece. The back size needs a jacket-back frame (about 36 × 54 cm); the 8 × 12 size fits home machines with an 8 × 12 in hoop; the chest word fits a 4 × 4 in hoop.