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Ninebark Hound
A terracotta and forest storefront for a trail dog outfitter that sews every lead from climbing webbing.
Published September 20, 2026. Built from a brief, no AI, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Ninebark Hound works out of a converted feed store in Salida, Colorado, four blocks from the Arkansas River. Two people run it: a former Forest Service sawyer who spent nine seasons cutting trail with a dog on a lead, and a sewer who came over from a canvas shop that made raft frames. They buy tubular nylon climbing webbing by the spool, cut it in house, and bar tack every anchor point on a walking foot machine. The store sells one lead in two lengths.
- Product
- Traverse Trail Lead, $54
- About it
- A 1.8 metre lead in tubular climbing webbing, with a brass swivel snap and a sewn traffic handle. It dries in twenty minutes after a river crossing.
- Brand facts
- Sewn from 25mm tubular nylon climbing webbing, the same spool stock used for anchor slings. Every anchor point is bar tacked, forty two stitches, not a straight run of lockstitch. Solid brass swivel snap so river grit grinds the metal instead of a plated coating.
- Style
- Adventure. Outdoor brand — huge italic serif heading, no CTA
Who this theme is for
A pet brand built around the outdoors, and more broadly any maker whose product is photographed in weather rather than in a studio. Leads, packs, cots, water bowls, anything that ends up dirty in the pictures. The Adventure preset runs a very large italic serif heading over a full bleed photograph with no button competing against it, which suits a first screen where the photo is the argument and the price is not. It works for a catalog of two to six products and falls apart past about twenty, because the layout gives every product a lot of room and there is no filtering shelf to fall back on.
What was decided in the brief
Terracotta primary on a warm off white, with a deep forest accent held back for the price and the add to cart. Dog photography outdoors is already green: pine, wet grass, river willow. Running a green interface on top of that flattens the picture, so the interface takes the opposite side of the wheel and the forest tone appears only twice a page, which keeps the two greens from arguing. Headings are set in an italic serif at a size that would look absurd on a product with a spec sheet and reads correctly on one with a story. The three brand facts sit under the hero as plain lines because webbing, stitch and hardware are the three things a buyer checks before length.
What is in the ZIP
- A single-product homepage: hero, trust strip, benefits, how-to-use or specs, reviews, final call to action.
- The whole store shell: product, collection, cart, search and 404 templates, header, footer, announcement bar.
- Valid Shopify 2.0 sections with schema, so every line of text is editable in the Shopify editor.
- The photos you see in the preview, ready to swap for your own.
Questions
- Is this Shopify theme really free to download?
- Yes. You get a complete Shopify 2.0 theme ZIP and no account is needed. In your Shopify admin open Online Store, then Themes, then Add theme, then Upload zip file.
- The hero has no button. Will that hurt my conversions?
- The Adventure preset puts the first buying control below the hero rather than on top of it, on the featured product. If you want a button in the hero, the hero section has a button label and link pair in the theme editor. Fill the label in and it appears.
- My photos are outdoors and inconsistent. Do they need editing first?
- No. Every image frame is fixed ratio with the photo set to cover, so a vertical phone shot and a wide camera shot both crop to the same frame instead of changing the height of the row. Mixed exposure is the thing that shows, not mixed aspect ratio.
