2" x 3" 
Black Twill with Embroidery
Merrowed Edge
Iron on Backing

The ruler has always been a symbol of control, born in the ancient hands of architects and masons, used to draft empires and divide the sacred from the profane. In art, it became a tool of discipline, slicing space into perspective grids and rigid symmetry. Enter the metal ruler, forged in the guts of the industrial age, cold, unbending, and brutally precise. Artists traded splintering wood for steel, something that could handle ink, blades, and intensity without flinching. But “metal ruler” hits different now. It sounds like someone who shreds guitar solos and commands the pit. Put it in blackletter and it feels less like a tool and more like a warning. For those who draw straight lines but live loud, the Metal Ruler rules hard.