New colors ribbon, Loose weave

In summer 2010 I launch a new line of cotton ribbons, loose weave, with a new range of colors. I worked closely with the manufacturer in Italy, but kept changing my line of colors a few times, until very recently. Only now, with the latest shipment, I feel I have the ribbons I was looking for with a new selection of 10 colors. So here they are, ready for the launch at the Stationery Show and available now in the shop: butter, persimmon, cherry, grass, leaf, teal, cyan, night, ice and charcoal. I hope you will like them! Please notice that the cotton ribbons, loose weave, are not longer available in small rolls of 22 yards, but only in larger rolls of 54 yards. I now only have a few rolls left in stock, in super sale, at this link. In the photos, Butter and Teal ribbons.

Book Arts in a class

This morning I brought some hand-made books to show in my son's class and thought to show some samples here from my small collection. I should really pull these books more often! The children were so enthusiastic and tried an accordion fold right away. I'm sure more ideas will come from their class, as they will work on the lotus folds for their event invitations. Thank you second graders for having me and being an inspiration for the day!

weekend

There is something in these Iphone photos that I really like. For sure they remind me of a good time spent with friends over the weekend with good coffee and cake after dinner at my home. Photos by Susy Pilgrim Waters.

Vintage style business cards

A few samples of some business cards I designed recently. The client contacted me with these words: I'm a writer who favors a vintage-y, old-time style I love old postcards, train tickets, vintage stamps.
And this is the style I was trying to have from the design. The cards are letterpress printed with sepia ink color on Lettra paper, a different vintage stamp is affix on each card. The final size are a bit larger than standard, to allow stamps to vary. Loved to work on this project!

Uno, due e tre

Here there are, one day at the Museum. I love taking pictures in front of this black and white wall at the MFA.

Hand-made decorated paper collection

The last week has been very hard to concentrate and feel motivated or inspired to work due to the latest world news. I'm sure it was the same for a lot of people.
Yesterday, though, I decided to leave and take the LGNE invitations to go to Sidney Berger's extensive collection of decorated papers, books and tools on papermaking, collected over the past 40 years. He has thousands and thousands of paper stored in drawers, thousands of books and amazing ephemera. I felt so lucky to spend a few hours viewing such a collection with a small group of the guild members at Sidney 's house. The all experience was very impressive and I left with my mind full of memories from the time marbled paper and hand-made books were taking all of my time and attention. I decided to donate some of my old sheets of marbled paper to the collection and to post a few pictures taken during the viewing. Below, stunning marbled paper alchemy by Karli Frigge and on the top left, an original sample of Japanese stencil, used for Chirogami paper. I took more photos, but the light was so poor indoor and I don't have any other good ones to show.


Below, some samples of my oil colors marbled papers and stationery. With nostalgia, I'm thinking of the time I was intensively marbling paper with oil colors from 1990 to 1997 and cut and fold envelopes by hand. I better pull some sheets out of my archive.....

Satsuma Press is organizing a fundraiser for Japan and I would like to invite everyone to participate. More informations can be found here. Thank you!

For Japan with love

Feeling speechless and in tears. For Japan with love.

At ChellisWilson

This vintage indigo textile is on view now at ChellisWilson, in Portland, ME. Wish I could go to see it.

The Link Stitch Workshop

Lovely class at the DeCordova during last weekend. And first signs of Spring in the Sculpture Park.

Letterpress and Bookbinding Workshop No.10

It's time for workshops for me. I have announced already the one coming up this weekend, but I also would like to announce the Letterpress and Bookbinding Workshop taught in collaboration with Albertine Press on Saturday, March 26th from 10 to 4 and Sunday, March 27th fro 12 to 4. The class is open now for registration!
On day one, participants will design, typeset and letterpress print an edition of one book page, by learning basic letterpress skill. On day two, we will learn the construction of the origami-style Lotus book and assemble the editioned pages + learn other two accordion based structure books. The picture below illustrate the result of two books, made during a previous class. If interested, please contact me directly or Albertine Press with any question. I can't believe we already arrived to No.10 workshop taught together in the past few year!

Cocon

Since the time I visited ChellisWilson I was trying to remember the right name or the right spelling for the artist beyond these amazing mobile. It wasn't until recently that I was finally be able to find Cocon. Happy to see more of her work, here are some photos and color palette that I really admire.