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peony stems note card
$6.00
plant-dyed handmade paper
Individually letterpress printed
thoughtfully made In california
Ships by next business day
100% satisfaction guarantee
woman-owned family business
Vanilla handmade paper with black letterpress ink. Full deckle edge paper handmade in our California studio, hand-fed onto antique letterpresses for a textured deboss.
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 ecru A2 envelope and a small card matte printed with photos and a little information about our process.
Card features an illustration of three peony stems.
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: 5.0 / 5 from 96 reviews.
As always such lovely paper. I used to order thank you cards to send with my portraits. I will be using the lovely cards from you all now. I just love them.
I have a friend who is going through radiation and she loves cards. I know these cards are going to brighten her day. She lives in Montana and loves things organic so these cards are perfect.
My friend absolutely loved it!! Sent it as a gift for her birthday!!
absolutely beautiful products! from the dye, to the paper. thank you for this
These cards are stunning! Can’t wait to get next month’s!
Beautiful cards & amazing presentation!
All of the cards were beautiful!
I love your products. Can’t wait to order more ! They are as beautiful as seen on your website.
Your cards are lovely!
I love the process and paper. Already sent a card off and the gifted commented on what a lovely card it was! Beautifully packaged.
Love my package. Everything in it was beautiful.
What a soothing, truly beautiful box of preciousness, each piece offered a sweet surprise and something to be treasured or passed along to bless someone else. I already had a prompt to start a monthly card to my 13 year old granddaughter to encourage her through these new high school years. Can't wait for the next one. Thank you for hand wrought items and a time to just settle in with my thoughts and intentions to be more aware of spreading joy through your creations. NJS Detroit Lakes MN
This little envelope was filled with wonderful things! I had so much fun opening it and inspecting all the goodies inside. Well done!
Beautifully handmade; looks and feels so special.
This stationary brings me back to when I was younger, and everyone wrote letters Thank you for bringing this back into my life Colleen RC Harris
This was my first order and just over the moon with the quality and the beautiful items. The attention to detail in shipping was so wonderful. I cannot wait till my next shipment to receive my next treasures! Thank you!
I just absolutely love your company - everything is so beautiful and thoughtful. KUDOS and please keep it up. ❤️
Very nice. So different. Can’t wait to send one out.
Love my products!
you always have lovely cards :O)
Very cute card that can be used for short notes.
Beautiful products!
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
I love ALL of my farmette cards…they are simply gorgeous and they help me on my mission to write more “snail mail” letters to friends. I cannot recommend them highly enough!
Love each piece included in the packet & have used most pieces already.
Creating happy moments weekly! Thank you. 💛
So beautiful!
Beautiful and thoughtfully made, very special card to add to a special gift. Highly recommended.
Beautiful. Everything about it, the paper, the color, I love the letter press.
Loved all the cards and used the cute extra pieces for cute notes in my kid's lunches. Can't wait for next subscription.
Lovely artisan paper goods.
Always such beautiful, quality cards I look forward to receiving!
I have been very happy with my first order.
Adorable. I used this as a thank you note for my housesitter along with a little gift and she just loved it. She’s going to frame it.
Beautiful cards and papers…..thank you for making such unique paper products!.. gerri
These artisan homemade papers are gorgeous and of the highest quality. I am already looking forward to the next delivery!
Beautiful!
I love the cards