Dauphine Press
Photo by Dauphine Press
Printed using 50-year-old Heidelberg Windmill letterpresses, Dauphine Press’s exquisite notecards marry luscious vintage imagery with modern sensibilities about sustainability.
Graphic designer Trish Kinsella, who founded the Petaluma-Calif. based company in 1999, wrote to let me know that Dauphine primarily uses Crane & Co.’s 100-percent cotton papers, which are made from the reclaimed cotton by-products of the garment industry. (No new cotton is grown for manufacturing any of the papers.) Also preferred over virgin-tree options: Neenah Paper’s Classic Crest 100-percent post-consumer recycled papers. “Their mills are even wind-powered, which is an added bonus,” Kinsella says.
Her favorite sustainable papers are known as “offcuts”—smaller pieces of paper left after a larger sheets has been cut to size. “Most shops just throw them away as they are too small to fit through their larger presses again,” she says. “But because of the nature of our printing technique, we can use them.” Dauphine also sources offcuts from larger print shops who “don’t have the time or the purpose” to find alternate uses for their offcuts. (From $10.50 for a set of six, Dauphine Press)
Photo by Dauphine Press
Photo by Dauphine Press
Regina Clare Jane said,
April 22, 2007 at 7:53 am
These are beautiful… I would just keep them for myself!