Limited edition

I have been binding with a curved needle a few copies of the limited edition book The Fruits, Herbs and Vegetable of Italy, for some placements in the Special Collection Libraries of University of Denver, Co, University of California San Diego, University of California Santa Cruz and Green Library at Stanford University. Some of the above libraries have culinary interest and they collect books with this subject. Something I had no idea about...

Sewing on tapes workshop

Detail of last weekend workshop at Paper Source Brookline, MA. The class was lovely, I even had some friends as my students!

Kuu Kukka

Yesterday, I shipped my first order of some carta, inc. products to a Japanese store in Toyama. The photos below is from the store Kuu Kukka and I would have liked so much to deliver the order myself. Japan has always been the first on my list of places to travel to. And I will someday....
Another recent Japanese encounter is the etsy shop of lovely Little Goodness with fabric, tape, supplies and stamps all from Japan!

Many thanks

Thank you to Irene from Bloesem for posting on Bkids the new alphabet ribbons. To Arounna of Bookhou for kindly mentioning my work on her Journal. I also love their designs and the craft projects on Bloesem Kids.
And to Laura of beautiful LFT Textiles to pointing out to me that the alphabet ribbons are technically brocaded and not embroidered, because are woven on a ribbon loom.
And the last, but not least, thank you to Rebecca Thuss for purchasing some of the cotton ribbons for her creations. I would love to see how they would be used, as she is to me, one of the most inspiring customer!

The designs below from the portfolio of Rebecca Thuss.

Embroidered alphabet ribbons

I finally received from Rome a large shipment of embroidered ribbons! I should have in stock ALL the initials available for a little while. Every package is 2 meters long = 2 and half yards long, and 1 cm width. Wholesale inquiries are welcome and I hope you will all enjoy this new addition of cotton ribbons to my line, as much as I do!

Spring Trunk Show

Announcing a Trunk Show at Weekend Kitchen, on April 19th from 12 to 6 in Essex, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River. The invitation is a Spring version of the one I designed for the holidays, with illustrations by Susy Pilgrim Waters and one of my favorite typefaces Odile. Hoping some of you in the area can come to the trunk show, everybody is invited as I look forward to a real spring here in New England!

Photo album at DeCordova

A new workshop at the DeCordova Museum last weekend. Hard- cover photo album with exposed sewing on tapes on the spine, done by opening a window into the book cloth that protects the spine. The beautiful hand-printed wood block paper from
Il Papiro, complemented the binding!

I can't resist...

The other day I gave to my children an accordion folded paper to draw on. In about only ten minutes they came back with this book collaboration, my five years old did the illustrations and my seven years old wrote the story. I can't resist to post this image, funny how little time it can take for them to make such a pretty book!

Bianco e Rosso on Etsy

I have listed a new cotton ribbons package on Etsy. Bianco e e Rosso, which stands for white and red in Italian, it is really a package of 5 yards neutral color ribbon and 5 yards of red ribbon, tied together. 5 millimeters width of 100% cotton fiber!

New shop on Etsy

I would like to announce the new shop of my friend and dear collaborator Susy Pilgrim Waters with silk screened tote bags and t-shirts. Hip and cool and she describes them! I'm lucky to own both of the bags and I actually use them all the time for going to the post office to ship my Etsy orders! For inquiries about Susy's illustrations and paintings, contact her directly on her website