1. Tell us a bit about Pressed & Folded?
We are Pressed & Folded, a creative studio based in Somerset. We design and publish greeting cards and linocuts that bring together typography, illustration, colour and fun! Our background is in textile and surface pattern design, and that foundation continues to shape, and colour, everything we do. This is now our eleventh year and we’re still very much inspired to create unique paper goods that we enjoy looking at and hopefully others do too.
2. Tell us more about your studio and ways of working
As I write this, we have just moved studio. This will be our third studio at Makers Yard, an artist-run project space in Frome, Somerset. We moved here four years ago into a small studio and have been upscaling gradually since. We are now in our dream studio, it has a stock/packing room, deep storage, a print room and we also have the luxury of a table with absolutely nothing on it – space for a vase of flowers! There is even room for another printing press I own that’s being delivered in a couple of weeks – it’s been in the loving care of London Centre for Book Arts for the past few years. This is a very exciting move for us!
3. What inspired your range in the Kettle’s Yard Shop?
All the Pressed & Folded cards stocked by Kettle’s Yard feature artworks, originally linocuts, of still lives from our home – our house plants, vases and cut flower stems from the garden. It’s great to have some small hints of our home life in the wonderful house that is Kettle’s Yard.
4. Why did you want to collaborate with Kettle’s Yard?
Obviously it was always a dream to one day count Kettle’s Yard as one of our stockists. Luckily for us, I think it was our ‘Lemons’ card that caught the eye of the Kettle’s Yard shop team, the lemon being significant in the Kettle’s Yard house. Jim and Helen Ede, who created Kettle’s Yard, placed a single fresh lemon on a grey pewter plate in the Kettle’s Yard house every week: a tradition which continues to this day.
5. If you had to buy yourself a gift from the Kettle’s Yard Shop, what would you choose?
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Pressed & Folded
Pressed and Folded is the joint venture of James and Malissa Brown, founded in 2016. Together they design and publish greeting cards, linocuts and screen prints from their studio in Somerset.
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