How glorious to have my favorite Mary Oliver poem letter pressed onto the most beautiful paper by my new favorite card and print shop. Framed and hung, and now I may see it every day as an affirmation of my wonderful life’s possibilities.
“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver 5x7in Art Print
$15.00
plant-dyed handmade paper
Individually letterpress printed
thoughtfully made In california
Ships by next business day
100% satisfaction guarantee
woman-owned family business
The Summer Day A print of the poem “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver - a beautiful reminder to savour life and each glorious day. Calendula petal handmade paper with black letterpress ink.
Full deckle edge paper handmade in our California studio, hand-fed onto antique letterpresses for a textured deboss.
Medium approximately 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches;
Comes with a backer for stability and an insert explaining a bit about how it’s made.
*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!
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 14 reviews.
I framed the Mary Oliver print.
Beautiful paper, crisp printing, terrific product.
Absolutely beautiful
This poem has been elevated to be a gorgeous piece of artwork by having it embossed on your paper. Love it! Will place it in a frame to remind myself to embrace every day.
Beautiful broadside. Thank you.
I used “floating frames” to display the prints, so the pretty paper was visible from the back as well as the front. The four prints I initially purchased were gifted on the summer solstice to family members, who were enchanted by them. I subsequently ordered additional prints to further extend my gifting (and to keep one for myself!). I eagerly await more farmette treasures.
One of my favorite poems is , The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver. Growing up my Dutch Grandmother had a plaque on her kitchen wall that read, Ve get too soon old, and too late schmart. Not the best message for a child, I decided I would rather have a poem on my wall that asks , "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?". I thought I would find nice paper and print the poem onto it, and then I found this amazing site where the paper was not only hand made, but actually had the poem on it already. When it arrived, it was more beautiful than I expected, the wording is embossed on this exquisite paper. But more importantly, it also came with a personalized thank you , and a postcard with lovely insights into butterflies and the stages of life. Our country, indeed our world is at an inflection point now and this insightful , caring human touch warmed my heart, How often does that happen now.? Thank you.
so quick and better in person! and the sweet little gift included was the best.
Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets and having one of my favorite poems typed on such beautiful handcrafted paper makes this piece so special.
Beautifully crafted!
Absolutely beautiful. I cannot wait to frame it and share it with others.
Great poem!!
I framed this beautiful print! Mary Oliver is my favorite poet!