After moving to California, Yoshiko taught herself (with the help of wonderful mentors) the craft of letterpress printing. Most of the designs are original creations by Yoshiko who grew up in Tokyo and studied sculpture at Tama Arts University in Tokyo. Cards are blank inside.įounded by Yoshiko Yamamoto and Bruce, The Arts & Crafts Press is a small letterpress printing studio specializing in designing and printing letterpress note cards and limited edition block prints. Each card is made with acid-free and recycled paper and soy-based ink. Published with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.Īll cards are 5" x 7" and come with a matching envelope. blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box. Contains five each of the following notecards: For the present set of notecards, four exceptional plants were selected from a copy of The Orchid Album in the collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The illustrations-hand-tinted lithographs on royal quarto pages measuring ten by twelve inches-are by John Nugent Fitch, a printmaker who often worked for the Linnean Society.
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That year Benjamin Samuel Williams published a series of articles under the title "Orchids for the Millions" Together with Robert Warner, Williams went on to write his magnum opus, The Orchid Album, published in eleven volumes from 1882 to 1897. Nursery catalogs record orchids for sale as early as 1804, but few understood the needs of these unusual plants until the breakthrough of 1851. blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box.įor decades after the appearance of the first tropical orchids in the British Isles, enraptured gardeners built hothouses and essayed all manner of methods to coax their fabulously expensive Cattleyas and Oncidiums to bloom. Single Stem pattern (detail), before 1917
Morris' designs-many still produced today-exemplify the best of Victorian fashion and foreshadow the Arts and Crafts aesthetic that Morris would go on to champion. The gorgeous floral and foliate wallpaper designs on these notecards, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, were selected from a sample book of William Morris and Company published around the turn of the twentieth century. So after training as an architect, he founded a decorating company with friends to produce glasswork, metalwork, and countless other crafts, including many textiles he designed himself. He believed that decoration, in its finest form, gives pleasure to those who use it as well as to those who make it. A fierce foe of modernity, William Morris (English, 1834-1896) drew inspiration from the Middle Ages, when artist and craftsman were considered equals.
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