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Stationery & Fine Prints, Made the Old-Fashioned Way

Ye Olde Cottage

Correspondence worth keeping

yeoldecottage.store Notecards · Wax Seals · Botanical Prints · Custom Orders


I design and print the sort of stationery that used to arrive by hand.

Every card, seal and print here starts on paper, not on a screen. I work the old way — hand-set layouts, letterpress textures, a proper wax seal — because a letter worth sending should feel like it took some trouble. Nothing here is mass-produced, and nothing is trying to look new.

The shop began as a way to keep a few old crafts alive: engraved botanical prints, correspondence cards with real weight to them, and invitations you'd actually want to keep in a drawer. If that sounds like your kind of thing, you're in the right cottage.


The Collection

Correspondence Cards

Letterpress-textured notecards for the letters you actually intend to send, sold in keepsake sets.

From £18 per set

Wax-Sealed Invitations

Hand-sealed suites for weddings and occasions worth marking properly, in your choice of wax and ribbon.

From £3.50 each

Botanical Prints

Engraved-style plates of hedgerow flowers and kitchen-garden herbs, printed on archival stock.

From £24 unframed

Custom Commissions

A crest, a monogram, a house portrait — drawn up and printed to your own specification.

Priced on enquiry

How It's Made

I.

Drawn by hand

Every motif starts as pencil or ink on paper before it ever touches a plate or a press.

II.

Set the old way

Layouts are composed with the same restraint as a proper broadsheet — rules, margins, and type that earns its place.

III.

Printed & sealed

Finished on heavyweight stock, and where it suits the piece, closed with a genuine wax seal.

“I ordered a set of correspondence cards and now I write actual letters again — that's the highest praise I can give a piece of stationery.”
A Correspondent, by post

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