Stationery with the weight of ink.
Every card is painted by hand, then pressed on a cast-iron platen one sheet at a time. You can read the impression with your thumb.
Free shipping over $75 · made to order in the studio
Pressed already, boxed and waiting.
Four things, made carefully.
Everything here fits the press bed, which is 6.5 by 10 inches. That is the whole constraint, and it is the reason the line looks the way it does.
Invitations
Suites for weddings and gatherings, pressed and proofed with you.
Greeting Cards
Single cards and small sets, each one painted before it is pressed.
Name Tags & Place Cards
Small pieces for a set table, tied and trimmed by hand.
Stationery
Correspondence sets and calling cards, printed a hundred at a time.
Three passes, none of them quick.
The ground is painted
Watercolor is mixed each morning and washed across the sheet by hand, so the colour sits differently on every piece before a single letter is set.
The forme is locked up
Type and plates are set into a chase and locked tight. Nothing on the page can move after this, which is why proofs matter.
One sheet at a time
The platen closes, the impression goes deep into the cotton, and the sheet comes off to dry. Then it happens again, for every card in the run.
A heavy old machine, still doing the finest work.
A cast-iron tabletop platen press, built to a tolerance nobody bothers with now. It prints a card at a time and it will not be hurried. Everything we sell has been through it.
Read our storyBringing us a wedding?
Suites start at 100 pieces. We set your words, send a PDF proof, and only put ink on paper once you have said yes to it.
First look at new pressings.
One email a month, no more.