Dear Everyone ~
Big, flat parcels are among my favourites to receive—and then to decant. My recent parcel from Atelier Écluse included two of their newest, truly swoonworthy patterns. We have named them Feathers & Lace and Tile & Brocade. They are dressy, they are elegant, and they are as luscious to fold as they are to behold.
The parcel also contained a fresh supply of AÉ bookweight papers and the blue & white and ochre patterns we’d been low on. We have also restocked their beguiling St-Henri sketchbooks in every patternway from petite to grand. This is the most AÉ we’ve ever had in the shop, and it’s a wonderful feeling.
Speaking of feeling: Two-ish weeks ago I came down with an awful case of Covid. Ruby has kept up the pace, picked up the pieces, and then some. Thank you, Ruby! I am now well on the mend, and I’ve missed being in your inbox. I’ve been wanting to share that Yannick, the proprietor and papermaker of AÉ, had sent me a report of AÉ’s warm reception at their first National Stationery Show in NYC. I’m delighted that he’s ready to introduce AÉ to an international audience. Yannick wrote, “It was an immense pleasure for us to meet many visitors at the show who already knew our work through you and your store. We are so happy to have our products showcased in such a landmark of the American stationery community.” And we are so happy to have been AÉ’s first U.S. retailer.
Seen above is my slim-case bound book with rounded spine that I made alongside students during a group Zoom workshop earlier in August. I chose to run the pattern vertically, as on AÉ's St-Henri blank books. We think the pattern will look equally divine horizontally, and look forward to experimenting soon.
Atelier Écluse decorative papers & bookweight papers
Atelier Écluse blank books
Picking up steam, Bari