Dear Everyone ~
Last week I received a fresh shipment of Hahnemühle Bugra in all 21 colours to replenish the Hahnemühle Ultimate Palette Housemade Pads. I loved decanting (the process and the word itself) the quartet of cartons. I piled all the wrapped stacks on my center table. Each colour arrived in its own Euro-kraft wrapper, hand-labelled by my supplier. Then I began to unwrap and arrange, and re-arrange, the colours.
The stacking, or stackletting, of the sheets for the Hahnemühle Ultimate Palette Housemade Pads is a big undertaking. For this new batch, I had the nimble fingers of Bex and Tammy to count and divide and re-stack with me. Ten sheets x 21 colours = 3 inches of paddable perfection.
The pads will be finished padding the week after next and they will be ready to ship pronto-ly thereafter. Be still your heart, and you will hear the pitter-pad of a delightful discount: If you order two pads, you will save $6; if you order three, you will save $14. Might we suggest using them as a pair of bookends, for your very own handmade books, for example? Wunderbar!
Let the Hahnemühlemania continue! I have just created a sumptuous set of notesheets, one each of all 21 Bugra colours. The sheets measure 6¼ x 9 and are hand-folded to 4½ x 6¼. They fit perfectly inside the Suite of 17 Hahnemühle A-6 envelopes (4¾ x 6½). This über Hannemühle wardrobe is the ultimate in mix-und-match chromatic correspondence.
As I’ve remarked on more than one occasion: Hannemühle’s felty finish offers a superbly stable surface for graphite, coloured pencil, pen & ink, gouache, markers, and even typewriters! And on the several deeper shades, a metallic gel pen or Lyra metallic pencil looks lively (and legible). The set of notesheets is available on its own, or paired with the Suite of 17 Hahnemühle envelopes.
Also in the Hahnemühle department, Postcards in Their Tin are back in stock in both finishes: cold press or rough. And I am also now stocking the Cappuccino pad in A5 (5¾ x 8¼) as well as A6 (4⅛ x 5¾).
