Dear Everyone ~
Our second annual virtual Studio Sale is virtually upon us. The Studio Sale page will go live next Friday evening (November 19) at 8pm Chicago time. A fresh preview page is already available as an appetizer, only for window-dressing and obsessing.
As inevitably, beautiful blank books will be bountiful, mostly made by me in a wide range of binding styles and paper coverings. Notably: a unique case-bound book covered in a March Serizawa calendar page, a triple-row loopy-link stitch with a Saint-Armand paper cover, two travel journals with airy kraft envelopes stitched inbetween every page, Japanese-style bindings, and a small handful of petite books with a shimmery soft-cover and parchment paper pages. Looky at every booky—but don’t drowse while you browse, or someone is likely to scoop you.
Japanese ceramic dishes holding a cake of Sumi-e watercolour. Some colours are more opaque than others, all are lovely for calligraphy, watercolour & drawing with a brush. The gold is very luxe; the silver is shimmery.
A lone long-stitch-link-stitch blank book with Saint-Armand cover & Stonehenge pages. Stitched with waxed-linen thread and enveloped in a handmade case of Saint-Armand, with string & button closure. Even better than a sweater set.
Desk xoxcessories include four sizes of caddy, all covered in Japanese papers. Provide your jotting sheets and elegant pencils with proper homes, and you’ll always be able to find them.
This year’s ribbon bags each include a little prize: A Cambridge Imprint origami ornament (You say bobble. We say bauble!) folded with a surprise inside! We will go to great lengths to make sure that everyone who wants a bag, gets one.
Quantities are limited on basically everything, including fresh Saint-Armand bundles of luscious useable-sized cut-offs beribboned in Italian cotton. And selected books on calligraphy, drawing and bookbinding. And a pair of handmade pencil case roll-ups. And we rest our case!
The Studio Sale will continue through December 4. Orders will ship promptly, and curbside pick-up will be available Tuesday–Saturday afternoon.
2021 Annual Studio Sale
At the ready, Bari