White handmade paper with black letterpress ink featuring an illustration of two people embracing. Full deckle edge paper handmade in our California studio, hand-fed onto antique letterpresses for a textured deboss.
Folded Card: Approximately 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches folded with inside blank. Back is letterpress printed with a small note including information about the natural dyes used to color each unique piece of paper.
Note Card: Handmade paper card with four full deckled edges. Front is letterpress printed; back is letterpress printed with a small note including information about the natural dyes used to color each unique piece of paper. No fold.
Comes with an acru A2 envelope and a small card matte printed with photos and a little information about our process.
*Please note: all of our paper dyes are botanically-based and will vary because of slight differences in the plant matter, weather, and making process. Expect that the colors will be a little different than the image you see here, and enjoy that your card is truly one-of-a-kind. To maintain the original hue longest, please store out of direct sunlight.
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!
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.7 / 5 from 18 reviews.
Such a beautiful and thoughtful gesture when there simply aren’t words to say. Sometimes you just want to send someone a hug, and this card captures that feeling perfectly. The simple illustration and beautiful letterpress texture make it feel incredibly special without needing to say much at all.
It’s become such a meaningful part of one of our staple gift add-ons, our Sympathy Bundle, and is one of those pieces that says so much through such a simple gesture. A quiet reminder that you’re thinking of someone and holding them close, even from afar.
On the day after I received these lovely cards, I got a call from a friend who had had to put her husband in the hospital. This card was a perfect way to let them know I was holding them close. Thank you.
Love the look and feel of the cards. The “Hug” card is in the mail to a family member who is struggling with poor health. It was the perfect card at the perfect time. I will be ordering more from you guys! Thank you
I purchased this card to keep in stock for when a long distance friend needs a hug. This morning I received a distraught phone call from my best friend who is 9 hours away so I plan to send the card tomorrow. It's beautiful and evokes the emotion of a real heart hug. Thank you so much!
