Borne out of a love of horticulture and antiquated country homes, this print takes inspiration from 18th century glasshouses blooming with exotic treasures like this cheery freckled orchid.
Oak Leaves is an original block print originally created as a paper cut-out and then drawn out on a silk screen by hand: the directness and energy of the original scissor-marks are still to be seen.
Pear Halves is an old Japanese small motif used here at a much larger scale and drawn out on a silk screen by hand. The irregularities and charm of the brushstrokes are clearly to be seen.
This original Cambridge Imprint design was created in 2014 for Persephone Books, celebrated independent publisher of undeservedly forgotten women’s writing of the twentieth century. Persephone books are elegant in their uniform covers of gentle grey, each hiding a different patterned end paper within. Our Persephone design has an appropriately early twentieth century Bloomsbury feel about it.