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Here is a new colour board that I put together yesterday. Keep your eyes peeled today, I have some new products that I will be launching and they are very cute!

Credits: Skinny la Minx, Decor8 (some of the images are very old, if you spot one as yours, please let me know).

Smock is based in Syracuse, New York, where their print shop has 20 antique presses, 50 tons of equipment, and 17 employees. Smockpaper describe themselves as, “faithful lovers of historic craft. We have letterpress ink in our veins. We are idealists. This means we believe in things. We are trying to make the world better right now. This affects everything we do. We read Walt Whitman (he was a letterpress printer too, by the way). We fall head over heels for heavy cast iron presses. We believe in the creation of beautiful things. And we want, like you, to feel good about where our beautiful things come from”

You can see the beautiful letter-pressed stationary, invitations and gift wrap on http://smockpaper.com/.

Nicola Pearson is a very talented freelance surface pattern designer based in Manchester. After gathering 7 years experience designing prints for companies such as Sainsbury’s and Mamas and Papas, Nicola decided to take the plunge and work for herself. I love Nicolas work, it has a fresh, colourful and fun feel which I find very inspiring. Nicola is represented by Paper&Cloth.

Credits: Nicola Pearson and Mamas and Papas.

Todays trend is Folk, its a trend that I always find inspiring and I am constantly recreating my Folk trend board and updating it with new images as well as being re-inspired by the old ones. I have also added ina  few images of Amy Butlers range for Graham and Brown which previewed this morning on Print&Pattern as this follows the Folk theme and I think the colours are just gorgeous.

Credits: Living Magazine, Graham and Brown, A Print a day, Paperchase, Print&Pattern.

Jane Foster has been a screen printer that I have followed for many years. Jane lives in Devon where she prints and sews her own designs which are strongly influenced by Scandinavian designs. Jane also designs cards and posters for the Artgroup as well as collaborating with Cloth-kits. To see more of Jane’s work and her large collection of fabrics and ceramics from the 1950s and 60s, check out her blog here.