Look closely at a pair of pajamas from Oyster and Arrow and you will find the Huntington Harbor Lighthouse, the Heckscher Museum of Art, the dairy barn at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve, Oheka Castle and the Cold Spring Harbor Firehouse, all hand-painted into one repeating pattern. The Huntington company turns Long Island towns into illustrated prints, then turns the prints into sleepwear, swimwear and gifts.

Founder Emily Greaney, a Long Island native, spent years building high-growth startups before leaving that career to start something built around the towns her family loves: Huntington, the Hamptons, Montauk and the North Fork. The company describes each of its prints as a love letter to a destination, filled with the landmarks and small details that make it recognizable to anyone who lives there.

Toile, but make it the North Shore

The designs work in the tradition of toile, the old French fabric style that tells a story in tiny repeated illustrations. Each Oyster and Arrow print starts with hyperlocal research on a real place, becomes an original hand-painted design, and ends up on organic bamboo fabric certified under the OEKO-TEX standard.

The Three Harbors print, the one that covers the company's home ground of Huntington and Cold Spring Harbor, mixes its five named landmarks with hydrangeas, horses, sailboats and coastal dunes. The company says the goal is recognition: the lighthouse you have passed countless times by boat, the museum you have walked past in Heckscher Park, an afternoon at Caumsett, a wedding at Oheka.

Other prints in the line cover Roslyn and Sands Point, with the Roslyn Clock Tower worked into the Gold Coast design, Northport under its Cow Harbor name, the North Fork, the Hamptons and Montauk. There is also a print for a pastime rather than a place: Tile Time, a design built around mahjong, the game that fills tables across Long Island.

What the company makes

The catalog centers on women's pajama sets in a bamboo viscose blend, along with swimwear, napkin sets and home pieces. The company pitches the pajamas at bridal parties as an alternative to generic getting-ready sets, with the print tied to the town where the wedding is happening, and offers complimentary monogramming for the bride on bridal party orders of seven or more sets.

Oyster and Arrow sells online and through boutiques from Montauk to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. The company positions the pieces as gifts for someone who grew up here, got married here, or moved away and misses it.

Where to find it

The full line of prints, pajama sets and gifts is at oysterandarrow.com, with the story behind each design published on the company's journal. The brand also posts new prints and local partnerships on its Instagram account.

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