Handmade in Montreal by the dynamic duo of Sophie (R) and assistant Sophia (L). We visited these two on a recent trip to Montreal and they showed us around their wonderful paper-making studio.
Most of their fibres are recycled offcuts and textile waste from the city's flourishing fashion & textile industry. They take pride in the fact that their products are recycled and sustainable, not to mention beautiful to the eye and to the touch.
Sophie and Sophia take papermaking seriously, but not themselves (as you will see from their lighthearted descriptions of these wonder papers).
Spruce
There's nothing quite as refined, as delightful, as a shot of Buckley's to ease a cough. Right? Right, haha! That said, one of the key ingredients in this old-time remedy loved by our ancestors is Canadian balsam, a resin from balsam fir trees, a close relative of the spruce. Used for centuries for its healing and soothing properties, it's * almost * the same vital energy you find in its leaves.
Cotton or linen depending on color, suitable for mixed media.
Letter
We sprinkled shards of a bilingual dictionary into a base of off-white cotton pulp.
If I’m writing you a love letter, this is nothing new. Think of the entombed bowl with messages for the dead, a pigeon cooing to land, a scroll strapped to its iridescent throat.
Think of the tab of a soda can. Remember how we would bend it back and forth through the alphabet? The top falls off and this is who you’re bound to love, someone whose name starts with that final letter.
Cosmos
Handmade artisanal paper handmade in Montreal with inclusions of cosmos petals, harvested with great care in the Mile-End on the edges of the Clark bike path ;)
Made from fabric scraps, cotton. Suitable for all types of mediums. Excellent for drawing, printmaking, collage, painting—you name it!
Twilight
Out the window, you see the stages of twilight unfold: civil, when street lights flicker on; nautical, when you could navigate at sea; and astronomical, when celestial bodies reveal themselves. Like the early evening sky, this month's paper is a blend: cotton and linen fabric scraps in magenta, gray, and dark purple, transformed into pulp and merged together in each sheet. This mood invites you to twirl berries into snow and take a bite in the starlight.
Cotton or linen depending on color, suitable for mixed media.
