Free Shopify theme · Sports & Outdoors · Bold Modern
Talus Nine
A hard blue and orange storefront for a two person sewing room that sells one 32 litre summit pack.
Published September 12, 2026. Built from a brief, no AI, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Talus Nine is a sewing room above a laundromat in Leavenworth, Washington. Marguerite cuts and Ilya sews, four packs a week, from 210 denier ripstop nylon left over from a tent factory two valleys south. Every pack is finished on a 1974 Singer walking foot machine, weighed on a postal scale, and the real weight in grams is written on the tag by hand before it ships.
- Product
- Summit Pack, 32 litre, $184
- About it
- A 32 litre alpine pack with a roll top, one compression strap, no lid and no hipbelt padding. It is built for the day that starts at four in the morning and ends before dark.
- Brand facts
- Each pack is weighed on a postal scale and the true gram weight is written on the tag, so nobody buys a 640 gram pack advertised at 520. The fabric is 210 denier ripstop nylon bought as roll ends from a tent factory in Cashmere, which is why colours run out and do not come back. A torn pack comes back for a patch at 18 dollars including return postage, for as long as the pack exists.
- Style
- Bold Modern. Bold uppercase hero — high-energy DTC brand
Who this theme is for
A gear maker with one or two products and a photograph taken outdoors rather than in a studio. Packs, tents, shells, skis, bike bags, anything a buyer compares by numbers before they compare it by looks. The layout puts a loud headline over a wide landscape photo and then drops straight into a specification the reader can argue with, because this buyer wants the gram weight and the fabric denier above the fold, not three paragraphs about adventure. It suits a shop with a small run, a real workshop, and stock that sells out, where every gram the buyer did not need is a gram they carried up 4000 feet for nothing.
What was decided in the brief
The style is Bold Modern on the blue variant rather than the red one. The hero photograph is a sunrise ridge, which is already orange across two thirds of the frame, so a red interface would disappear into it and a blue one holds its own edge against the sky. Orange stays as the accent and does one job, which is the price and the add to cart button, so the only orange the eye has to find is the orange that takes money. The three brand facts sit in a row under the hero rather than inside the product description, because weight, fabric and repair are the three things this buyer checks before they read anything else, and buried in a paragraph they would be checked by nobody.
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.
- Will a wide outdoor photo still work as a hero on a phone?
- Yes. The hero crops to the centre of the image below 768 pixels and the headline moves off the photo and onto the background, so the text never sits on a busy sky. Shoot or crop with the subject near the middle and it survives both widths.
- How do I show weight and fabric numbers without a spec table plugin?
- Use the three fact lines under the hero. They are three text settings in the theme editor, one line each, and they render as a row on desktop and a stack on a phone, which covers most of what a small gear maker needs a spec table for.
