Handmade cotton paper, bespoke calligraphy and letterpress. A letter, an announcement or a book you pass on — not delete.
Handmade paper is not printed whiteness from a press. It is drawn on a screen from cotton pulp, it has an irregular deckle edge, a watermark and a texture the pen can feel. It lasts centuries because there is no acid in it. You write on paper like this differently — slower, and with thought.
Paper from rag, acid-free, for centuries.
An irregular hand edge — you know a real sheet.
Your mark in the very fibre, visible against the light.
From letter paper to calligraphed announcements. Prices are indicative; exact by scope. Sample content; in your version you add your own work.
Handmade sheets and envelopes with a watermark or monogram.
from £66
Announcements, place cards and addresses by pen and ink.
from £84
A seal with your stamp on an envelope or a document.
from £21
Bespoke binding and calligraphy — a guest book, a keepsake.
from £240
We beat cotton rag into a fine pulp in water.
We draw a sheet on the screen, forming the deckle edge and watermark.
We press the sheet and dry it slowly so it stays flat.
I make both the paper and the letters one at a time. Pulp, screen, deckle — then a pen that moves differently on handmade paper. I write slowly, because ink cannot be erased; every stroke must land the first time. Rather fewer sheets done well than a pile in a hurry. For every job I keep a sample and a record.
Tell me what you need — letter paper, a calligraphed announcement, a seal or a manuscript book. I'll reply with a proposal and an indicative price. The enquiry is without obligation.