No. 1 · Summer Almanac 2026

Everything that grows
near Hemlock Street,
printed on paper.

We paint the plants inside a one-mile walk of the shop — garden roses, tomato vine, the mushrooms that come up after rain — then set them in ink on heavy stock and post them to you.

Short runNo. 4West Hazleton PA
Close view of the Botanist pattern printed on washed linen
Plate I — ‘Botanist’ on 100% washed linen See the pattern

In the drawers

201Goods in the current catalogue, across four departments.

Printed where

PennsylvaniaEvery sheet runs close to the studio, on FSC stock.

Posted when

Same dayOrders in before noon Pacific go out with the afternoon mail.

Carriage paid

Over $100Free ground shipping anywhere in the fifty states.

Four departments

Where would you like to begin?

All 201 goods
Just off the press

New this season

Everything new
The method

Gouache first.
Ink second.

Nothing here starts on a screen. Marlowe walks up the hill with a sketchbook, brings back a stem or two, and paints it at actual size in gouache and watercolour on the table by the window. Only when the painting is dry does it go under the scanner.

The files then go to a press two towns over, where the cards are run on 118 lb cotton stock, foiled by hand where foil is called for, and trimmed in short batches. If a run comes out wrong, it goes in the seconds bin rather than in the post.

How we print
“A card is the only thing left that arrives in someone’s hands the same way it left yours.”
Marlowe Ash · Founder & illustrator
  • Stock118 lb cotton, uncoated
  • InksSoy-based, non-toxic
  • FoilHand-fed, 24k leaf
  • EnvelopesA2 & A7, gum-sealed
  • Runs250–600 sheets
  • Made inThe United States
The pattern library

Shop by what’s drawn on it

All patterns
Kept in stock for a reason

The old favourites

Sorted by rating
The small table

Twelve dollars and under

See all

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Plates II–XIII · from the 2026 catalogue