About Farmette Co.

Hello and welcome to our little farmette! I’m so glad you’re here. I founded farmette co in 2017 as a hand paper-making and letterpress studio that would emulate the values my family and I hold on our hobby homestead: pursuing beauty, celebrating the rhythms of the seasons, making space for peace and reflection and authentic connection, and sharing the abundance of this good earth.

My small team and I dream up, write, design, botanically dye, handmake, fold and letterpress print each card that we offer. They truly are a “farm to card” labor of love and we hope they bring you joy!

We use a 50% cotton noil half-stuff and 50% abaca blend. The cotton is remnant from a cotton mill in the garment industry in the United States. Abaca is a fiber from the banana family and ours is imported from the Philippines.

We use many different natural dyes, and we try to source them as sustainably as possible. We encourage you to experiment with your own natural dyes - it's so much fun! Some great sources (in the US) of dyes and information are: botanicalcolors.com and aurorasilk.com.

In addition to natural dyes, we internally size our paper to accept ink and use calcium carbonate (chalk) to balance pH. We do not mordant our fibers for dye acceptance at this time because of environmental considerations.