Botanica Nocturne — the engraved olive plate

Pl. IThe dense field

Collection N° I

BotanicaNocturne

An olive branch, engraved as a naturalist's plate. Made to order, and finished by hand.

Made to order
Finished by hand
Shipped internationally

One olive branch, drawn as a naturalist once drew it, and nothing added that the plate did not already hold.

A dense engraved botanical drawn in the manner of a nineteenth-century naturalist plate — one olive branch, rendered in linework fine enough to read as an apothecary label at arm's length and as botany up close.

Every piece carries one of three forms, never a fourth

Nothing is redrawn for a product. The plate is cropped, edged or set alone, and the linework stays exactly as it was engraved.

Pl. I
Dense field
The complete engraved botanical repeat. Used where a large flat surface can carry the whole story — as a border treatment, or as a full or reduced-scale repeat.
Large flat surfaces: borders on linen, full repeats on cushions, throws, wall hangings and canvas prints.
Pl. II
Single-sprig emblem
One isolated branch or leaf cluster pulled directly out of the dense field and used as a standalone mark. It is a crop, never a redrawn simplification — the line weight and engraving of the plate are preserved exactly.
Placement marks and smaller pieces where a dense print would be too loud, or too costly to execute well: mugs, coasters, tins, chest and cuff placements.
Pl. III
Hairline border
The thin gold or ivory linework that edges the dense field, used alone as a minimal trim. It is the same line that frames the plate — and the same hairline that runs through the rest of the house's visual language.
Edges and trims: hems, napkin and glove borders, board edges, bag piping.

The rooms of the house

The house began at the table and works outward from there, slowly.

Shop every room

Kitchen & DiningI / VII

A piece from every room

An olive branch, engraved as a naturalist's plate.

The whole collection

Made after it is ordered, and made to be used

Not a print run. Each piece is made once it is bought, to a standard set for daily use rather than for display.

Made to order
Nothing is warehoused. Each piece is made after it is bought — slower, and better: no surplus, no clearance, and no season that ends in a sale.
Finished by hand
Every piece is made and finished by hand to order, then checked before it is packed. Where a hem, an edge or a seam is involved, a person has handled it.
Built for daily use
These are working objects, not display pieces. The tray gets carried and the tea towel goes in the wash, and they are made to be treated that way.

New from the workshop

All new pieces

Notes from the house

Three essays are being written. They are listed here so you know what is coming, and will link once they are published.

In preparation
How the plate was drawn
One olive branch, and why it is engraved rather than painted.
In preparation
Choosing a colourway
Ivory, sand and espresso, and the rooms each one suits.
In preparation
Caring for printed linen
What a printed piece needs to last as long as it should.

Letters from the house

A note when a new collection opens, and nothing more often than that.

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BotanicaNocturne

Every piece carries one of three forms, never a fourth

Dense field

Single-sprig emblem

Hairline border

The rooms of the house

A piece from every room