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Jaime I — Blueprint · Blue — Landscape

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Jaime I Blueprint Wall Art

$99 CAD

Open production · Made after your order

Free shipping — Canada only

A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.

  • ✓Made-to-order
  • ✓Free shipping — Canada only
  • ✓14-day returns

We'll hand your exact text to the operator before plotting — 40 characters max.

Secure checkout via Stripe. Your piece is plotted after you order.

A technical plan of the Jaime I, drawn line by line in pen on 250gsm paper, at 11 x 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.

The Jaime I's silhouette exists in file form everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a single copy you can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, under what number.

The Jaime I was one of three España-class battleships built for Spain, and the only one still afloat when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 — it stayed loyal to the Republic, its guns reportedly enough to keep the conservative city of Santander from joining the uprising. Over the following year it bombarded rebel-held ports and was hit repeatedly, including by Condor Legion seaplanes near Almería in May 1937. A month later, on June 17, 1937, an internal explosion during repair work at Cartagena destroyed the ship and killed roughly 300 crew — one of the deadliest naval disasters of the war.

At a Glance

  • ◆Fought for the Republic, 1936
  • ◆Bombarded rebel-held ports, 1936
  • ◆Hit by Condor Legion bombs, 1937
  • ◆Destroyed by internal explosion, 1937
  • ◆Around 300 killed in blast
  • ◆Guns reused in coastal batteries

Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.

Specifications

codeink@robot:~$ ./specs --piece jaime-i

> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]

> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll

> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]

> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting

> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order

> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada

What the robot does, what a person does

The robot

  • ◆runs the file
  • ◆traces the line
  • ◆lays down ink
  • ◆repeats without tiring

A person

  • ◆picks the ship
  • ◆designs the linework
  • ◆decides which lines disappear
  • ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
  • ◆watches the plot start to end
  • ◆signs, numbers, packs

Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.

Included

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Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost

Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.

Hidden signature

The CodeInk signature glowing under UV light on the back of a plotted piece

Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.

A signature only UV light reveals

On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.

“The Jaime I survived bombs, groundings, and a full year of war, only to be lost in port during ordinary repairs. There's no lesson in that, just a reminder that a plan on paper doesn't have to know how the real thing ends.”

— Carlos, CodeInk.art, Québec

Open production, no duplicates

Each plot is made after you order, one at a time. The pen wears slightly with every hour of use, ink density shifts, and no two lines close at exactly the same point — nothing is corrected or hidden.

PERFECTLY imperfect.

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codeink@robot:~$ ./faq --list▌

Questions & Answers

Everything you need to know

CodeInk art is not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by the Armada Española (Spanish Navy) or its successors. Type designations are used for descriptive purposes only.