Beautiful rabbit garland
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plant-dyed handmade paper
Individually letterpress printed
thoughtfully made In california
Ships by next business day
100% satisfaction guarantee
woman-owned family business
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 28 reviews.
My packet arrived with a wonderful Valentine theme. I love my string of hearts and immediately hung them . Valentine’s Day is my birthday, so the entire packet tied with the lovely dyed fabric felt like a birthday gift!
This room and linen spray smells incredible and was a wonderful addition to my subscription! Thanks you!
What a beautiful gift!! The personal note made me feel so appreciated. And I cannot wait to experience the room fragrance. Wow!!!
I always look forward to your beautiful designs and fabulous paper!
Always lovely and such beautiful craftsmanship.
I have to say that I look forward to these packages every month. They always bring a smile to my face! Better than that, when people receive the cards, they always comment to me how special they are to them. Thank you for all of your personal touches and attention to detail. Cards have become a bit of a lost art in my opinion and every note makes someone feel encouraged and thought of. Who doesn't need that!
I love getting my farmette happy mail package... every bit of it is special from the outer kraft envelope to opening the tissue paper wrapping with sketches printed on it... releasing the hand dyed ribbon and exploring each and every wonderful handmade piece... the tea, the circle pieces, the affirmation card and of course the letter-pressed notecards. they are a delight to receive and a delight to mail to a special friend.
I assume the sticker was the free gift. Honestly, I was a little disappointed.
What was it? Did I miss it?
I love my Farmette mail! Truly Happy Mail.
Consistently beautiful products that I love to mail
Love the tea and wish I could purchase more.
The cards are beautiful, elegant yet earthy. I love the feel of them. Thank you.
Always beautiful
Thank you for the super cute sticker!!!
Find myself writing notes to friends & family more often using the lovely papers.
I have the monthly subscription and cannot express how much I love these! I love using these cards to send happy mail to friends and family. The designs are always beautiful and they always include extra fun bits that I get to use in my junk journal!
This delightful garland is going to make my strawberry-loving daughter SO HAPPY.
Please cancel my monthly card/paper subscription. Thank you! I really treasure all of the contents of your beautiful packages! Marilyn Hower marilynhower@gmail.com
It is always so exciting to receive Farmette's package in the mail. each item is perfect and fits what i am doing this month. thank you so very much.
I think I already did this. I remember saying that I hadn’t found a use yet for the little pieces of paper, but I did!! Gift tags!!
Very thoughtful and a beautiful piece to add to my Valentine decor
Lovely surprise every month
Beautiful product
What a treat to find the room/linen freshening spray in my monthly farmette package! The Winter Window scent is perfect for this time of year--crisp, cool, and conveying an optimism that spring will come. Thank you so much!
The January subscription box has been my favorite yet! Receiving my monthly box has become the highlight of my month.
What a wonderful surprise! Thank you. The scent is truly heavenly. And bespoke. I love it.