Dear Everyone ~
Writing notes is so much less taxing when you have splendid cards to choose from. We’re already halfway through National Letter Writing Month, and we’ve realized we should assemble some superior samplers to refresh your reserves.
Each Bundle of Stationery Joy à la Japonaiserie contains a range of notecards and postcards from European designers and artists: Eleanor Percival, Kiran Ravilious, Sarah Hamilton, Marimekko, Cambridge Imprint, and Hahnemühle Bugra. Envelope accompaniments include tissue-lined Pineider Monarch-y envelopes, Wanderlust envelopes hand-folded by me, and a vintage airmail envelope.
As you may recall from past editions of our Bundles of Stationery Joy, they have always been ensconced (swaddled, really) in specific papers, from Japanese mulberry-fiber paper to crinkly non-Kodai Kikkō to Serizawa calendar pages to Wanderlust Paper to Cambridge Imprint. For this edition, we’ve upped our game, and will be wrapping each bundle in a unique vintage Japanese paper from our archives, most from the last century, all from Aiko’s. There is only one of each pattern, so you might want to spring into action if you have favourites.
As you will see in the longest dropdown menu in BZS history, my postal muse and I have put our heads together to name each and every wrapping. The wrapping measures at least 12 x 16; some are as large as 14 x 18. All have been very gently folded, almost finessed, and we declare them suitable for lining a drawer or a couple of envelopes, or making a big envelope, or wrapping anew.
Permit us to point out what is tucked into the knot of the vintage Japanese cording beribbonment! Look sharp, and you’ll see a jumbeau pencil covered in a complementary paper. These are a big addition to our wrapped repertoire of half pencils with rosy eraser and standard pencils with erasers. And a charmola tag with the name of your bundle’s wrapping and, of course, a suitable seasonal stamp.
If you aren’t in the mood for a shower of stationery joy, perhaps a sprinkling of new and replenished cards will float your bow. I’m delighted to report that two new series of notecards from the U.K. have just arrived: Jane Ormes’ English Garden watercolours (above) and Hannah Pontin’s quartet from 100 Drawings in 100 Days (below).
And Mary Feddon notecard portfolios, which sold out in a mad March moment, have been restocked. Plus we've added a third set of her cards: Two Cats and Cats & Compass.
