Love my crab card! And I also got the cute little wooden box to put all my farmette cards in. I’ll look forward to my monthly “Happy Mail” ! So fun to be surprised every month.
free gift with first order
$0.00
plant-dyed handmade paper
Individually letterpress printed
thoughtfully made In california
Ships by next business day
100% satisfaction guarantee
woman-owned family business
Welcome! We're so glad to have you here in our little farmette community. Add this to your cart with your first order, and we'll send you a complementary card from our studio as a thanks for you joining us. Looking to build your collection? Start here!
We create our paper goods with great care and love in our studio in Palo Cedro, California! Loren writes and creates each design, often using sketching and handwriting, and then pairs it with the perfect paper color. Tim, Colin and Xela transform natural fibers into beautiful, plant-dyed, deckle-edged sheets. Lydia, Elevia, Christy and Jessica print them one-at-a-time on our antique presses and package them up for you! Scroll down for more details about our artisan making process.
Emily and Lydia will carefully pack up your order and ship it via the method you choose at check out. Our shipping timeline is one to three business days, and almost all orders will ship within one business day!
Please email us at shipping@farmette.co if you need your order to arrive by a certain date, and we will do everything we can to accommodate.
Hand Crafted with love
Farmette paper starts with natural cotton fibers, which are upcycled from the garment industry, and abaca fibers, from a plant in the banana family.
These materials are weighed and soaked, and then processed for four to five hours into pulp with a simple machine called a Hollander beater, which macerates the fibers so that they will knit together when shaken in water.
Once the beater is emptied, we use plant powders and occasionally minerals in careful ratios to dye our pulp in our natural palette. Most dyes are left for a 12-hour period to set.
Sustainably created
Next, the pulp is added to a vat of water. The papermaker skillfully pulls a screen stretched over a frame, with another frame on top - called a mould and deckle - through the pulpy water and shakes the slurry as the water drains out through the screen, leaving the shapes of the paper behind.
Excess water is sponged out, and the wet sheets of paper are transferred onto fabrics sandwiched between acrylic sheets. Stacks of these sandwiches are then moved onto a hydraulic press, where remaining water is slowly squeezed out and the fibers are further knit together to create a strong paper surface.
We Use Antique Letterpresses
These fabric-paper sandwiches are then removed from the press and hung to dry. Once they are dry, paper sheets are peeled off the fabrics by hand, and folded by hand into cards if necessary.
At this point, the paper is moved to our print room, where our press people print our designs on antique lettepresses and hot foil presses.
One By One...
Our designs, many with hand sketching or lettering that has been digitized, have been made into photopolymer plates or copper dies, which must be expertly aligned on the presses. One at a time, a piece of paper is precisely placed, and the press is activated by a foot pedal or hand lever to imprint the design into the paper.
The prints are then inspected for quality and placed with their envelopes or backers into a sleeve for safe-keeping. They’re ready to be shipped to our beloved customers all over the world!
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.8 / 5 from 331 reviews.
Beautiful packaging. You can feel the care put into it. Quality is superb. So excited to send these out, snail mail is back 🤍
Received my first order & free gift also from this company & these cards are BEAUTIFUL!!!
I just love your products ✨💫
I love this paper so much it’s absolutely lovely and texture and weight! And the cards are beautiful.
Very thoughtful free gift card I got! Thank you!
Such a beautiful gift to my every day! I can’t wait to encourage others with this earthy, special backdrop. Homemade gifts never go out of style~
Love all the special and thoughtful touches- even the tissue holding the bundle together was inspiring 💛 looking forward to the next one!
What a beautiful gift of curated papers! That bunny is darling and all the papers! The tea is amazing and both flavors brought me right out to the garden. I love my new box to keep my treasures in. I’m enjoying emptying it as I write and send letters again. A ritual I will continue with each new batch. Thank you!
Beautiful little monthly set. Can't wait to give my first card, so lovely I want to keep them all to myself. Can't wait to have a cute little collection to chose from. ❤️
Outstanding product!
High quality paper, lovingly creative and packaged. I couldn't be happier with my purchase. Can't wait until next month. I purchased the monthly subscription.
Beautifully hand crafted for others to enjoy and share.
Beautiful stationery
When I received my Farmette order I was overjoyed to sit down and open it and take it all in. Each card that was part of my subscription, as well as my personalized note, my complimentary gifts and even the tissue paper & ribbon, made my unwrapping magical. We live in such a hurried world and embracing artisan goods like those of Farmette Co.’s is nothing short of special in every way. Thank you for caring Loren & team!
Lovely!
Love all the items I received!!!! Can’t wait for the next shipment!!
My wife loved these! Lovely quality and ascetic
Perfect cards to celebrate our very special 50th Wedding Anniversary! Thank you!
I was literally smiling while I opened the box and looked at each of the beautifully crafted items it held. Reading the personalized note from Emily accented the good feeling a beautiful card can bring. The picture posted is missing one card because I was able to select the perfect card for my friend’s recent birthday the very next day I received the order. Thank you!
I loved everything about my first order. The tea was delicious and I can't wait to write out my first card using the beautiful stationary.
Delighted with my first post from you <3 Thanks very much.
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Thank you for the gift ... I love the paper and simplicity of the imagery. Your aesthetic and artistry is executed with care.
Very sweet-love that it is handmade!
The quality of these cards is absolutely amazing! They just feel good in your hands. Not to mention, the packaging itself is beyond. Farmette goes out of their way to make it really special!
I loved my cards and everything I can’t share a video or photo because I’ve used them all. Can’t wait for my next shipment. I’ll do it then. 😃
The items are beautiful. What a treat to receive “happy mail”. The tea is a sweet touch. Love all the details.
They’re really not notes. They are more like gift tags. They were so small. There was no way to write a note on most of them. I was really waiting for her to come in to send a invitation to a bunch of girlfriends and now I have to find something else. I will not be renewing.
I already wrote and told you how I loved the packaging and all the special touches along with the gorgeous paper and cards!
Recipient loved the gift!
A cutie
Thank you. I hope I wasn’t cheating by getting a free gift with my first order because I also got a free gift with my new subscription.
High quality card beautifully done.
Love the variety and textures. The colors are beautiful!! Extremely happy!!
Such a nice gift. Very pretty
In a time when written letters and notes have become more and more scarce, you inspire people to put pen to paper and help them say things in a very simple way, but very meaningfully, when someone cannot find their own words. Thank you.
The gifted card is lovely. The hug s beautiful and I can’t wait to give it as a gift.
Everything was beaufiful, well made and arrived packaged very securely.
Loved everything! Thank you!