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Oxgall & Comb
A mauve and saffron storefront for a one room marbling studio in Port Townsend that floats every sheet by hand.
Published September 23, 2026. Built from a brief, no AI, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Oxgall & Comb is a marbling studio in a former sail loft on Water Street in Port Townsend, Washington. One bookbinder runs it, with a retired boat painter who mixes the colours two mornings a week. Each sheet is floated on a tray of carrageenan size, patterned with brass combs they filed themselves, and laid down by hand on cotton paper, so no two sheets in a pack match. They make about ninety sheets on a good day and stop when the size goes cloudy.
- Product
- Nonpareil Pack, Ten Sheets, $38
- About it
- Ten hand marbled sheets in the nonpareil comb pattern on 120 gram cotton rag paper, each 50 by 70 centimetres. The colourway shifts from sheet to sheet because the tray is fed by hand, which is the reason bookbinders buy them.
- Brand facts
- Every sheet is floated on carrageenan size from red seaweed, mixed the night before and used within two days. The combs are brass pins set at 6 millimetre spacing into cedar bars, filed and set in the studio. Printed on 120 gram cotton rag paper, sold in packs of ten with no two sheets alike.
- Style
- Feminine Luxe. Fashion editorial — script logo, light serif heading
Who this theme is for
A studio whose product is the look of the thing: marbled paper, hand dyed yarn, block prints, glazed tiles, anything a buyer chooses by eye before they read a word. The Feminine Luxe preset sets a script logo over a light serif heading and gives the photography most of the first screen, so the pattern does the selling and the copy stays short. It suits a catalogue of one to twenty products where every item is a small variation on a technique. It is the wrong preset for a shop that sells on specifications, because the light type and generous spacing push numbers down the page and a long feature list starts to look out of place.
What was decided in the brief
A mauve primary with saffron held back for the price and the add to cart. Marbling colours are pigments floating on size, and the studio's own sheets run through madder rose, ochre and indigo, so the interface takes one colour already in the paper rather than competing with it. Saffron sits opposite mauve on the wheel, which makes the two buying controls the loudest things on the page without a single heavy border. The three facts are about process rather than product because a marbled sheet cannot be described by its dimensions: the seaweed size, the comb spacing and the cotton paper are what a bookbinder is actually checking before buying ten.
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.
- Every item I make is slightly different. How do I show that?
- Sell the pack or the style as one product and use the product gallery for several real examples, one photo per variation. The theme gives the gallery the full width on a phone, so a buyer can swipe through six sheets before reading the description. Say plainly in the description that the item they receive will differ from the photo.
- Can I use a plain logo instead of the script one?
- Yes. Upload an image logo in the header settings and the script type is replaced by your file. If you keep a text logo, the heading and body fonts are separate settings in the theme editor, so you can change the script without touching the rest of the page.
