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Streak & Lustre
A copper and sage storefront for a Montana workshop that fills walnut trays with twenty four real minerals for classrooms and curious kids.
Published October 8, 2026. Built from a brief, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Streak & Lustre is a back room workshop in Butte, Montana, where Delphine Arceneaux builds mineral teaching trays after thirty one years as a mine geologist. Each tray is one walnut board routed into twenty four cells and oiled. She picks every specimen by hand at rock shows and old claims, and packs a white streak tile and a ten power hand lens so a class can test colour and hardness.
- Product
- Classroom Mineral Tray, 24 Specimens, $84
- About it
- A black walnut tray with twenty four hand picked minerals, a streak tile and a ten power hand lens. A key card names every specimen so the tray itself stays bare for blind identification games.
- Brand facts
- Twenty four real specimens in every tray, including copper ore from the hills around Butte. Each tray ships with a white streak tile and a ten power hand lens. Built by a geologist who worked thirty one years in Montana mines.
- Style
- Home & Lifestyle. Home/lifestyle — serif italic hero, accent buttons
Who this theme is for
A small maker selling a hands on learning kit: mineral trays, fossil casts, pond study nets, wooden fraction blocks. The buyers are teachers spending a classroom budget and grandparents buying for a kid who fills their pockets with rocks, so the page shows the full tray first, then the crystals up close, then a streak test in progress, and keeps the price and what is in the box near the top. The Home and Lifestyle layout sets an italic serif headline over a wide photo and uses one accent button, which suits a shop with a single product and a story behind it.
What was decided in the brief
The style is Home and Lifestyle on its second variant. The primary is the copper orange of native ore and the accent is the sage green of malachite, so the colours come straight out of the tray. The brand facts lead with the twenty four real specimens because a teacher needs to know these are not plastic, and the thirty one years underground come last because that is why the streak tile and hand lens are in the box at all.
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?
- Yes. You download a complete Shopify 2.0 theme ZIP and no account is needed. In your Shopify admin go to Online Store, then Themes, then Add theme, then Upload zip file.
- Schools pay by purchase order. Can I accept that in Shopify?
- Yes. Under Settings, then Payments, add a manual payment method such as Purchase order or Invoice. The order is created as unpaid and you mark it paid when the school settles the invoice.
- Every tray has slightly different specimens. How do I show that honestly?
- Say it in the product description and show the specimen list rather than one exact photo as a promise. A line such as natural specimens vary in size and colour sets the right expectation before checkout.
