When leather fantasy meets classic Americana, the result is a bandana that operates as both accessory and artifact — a piece of visual culture drawn from the golden age of underground queer illustration.
Featuring imagery from the Dom ‘Etienne’ Orejudos Collection, Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago.
This hand silk-screened cotton bandana reinterprets the traditional paisley through a queer lens, centering one of Dom “Etienne” Orejudos’s unmistakable figures: statuesque, self-possessed, and emblematic of mid-century leather iconography. The composition reflects the visual codes of masculinity, power, and desire that shaped gay erotic illustration and bar-culture signaling in the pre-digital era.
Printed in small batches in New York City, each piece is pulled by hand using permanent acrylic inks. The linework is bold and archival in character, preserving the graphic intensity and graphic restraint that define museum-collected erotic art. Whether worn as a flag, displayed as wall art, or folded into everyday styling, the bandana functions as a portable fragment of queer visual history.
Available in multiple colorways, each variation nods to the language of coded dress and recognition that once structured cruising culture and leather communities.
Details
Hand silk-screened on 100% cotton
Printed in NYC in small batches
Black permanent acrylic ink on colored bandanas
Gold permanent metallic acrylic ink on black bandanas
Image area: 17" × 17"
Full bandana size: approximately 21" × 21"
Slight variations in ink density and fabric size are inherent to hand printing and indicate authentic, human-pulled production
Ultralight cotton weave that softens noticeably after the first wash
