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BESPOKE LETTERPRESS | 2022 Linen Bound Desktop Planner in Stone

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BESPOKE LETTERPRESS | Heirloom Recipe Book in Deep Fig Purple

CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Card Frame

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Your Wild Books

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POM POM Magazine | Issue 37 Summer 2021

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SELVEDGE Magazine | Issue 82 Lace

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SELVEDGE Magazine | Issue 102 Mend

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PROPER CYCLING | Issue Two

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SIDETRACKED | Volume 21

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CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Book Frame

CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Pressi Frame A1 - A2 - A3 - A4 - 50cm

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BESPOKE LETTERPRESS | 2022 Petite Linen Planner in Lavender

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BESPOKE LETTERPRESS | 2022 Family Wall Calendar

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BESPOKE LETTERPRESS | 2022 Linen Bound Desktop Planner in Stone

BESPOKE LETTERPRESS

BESPOKE LETTERPRESS | 2022 Linen Bound Desktop Planner in Stone

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Looking Forward

Bespoke Letterpress' desktop diary for 2022 is bound in Stone linen and is perfect for your work, home office or studio desk. Or, simply keep track of domestic affairs and upcoming social events. Yes, they will exist again!

Open it up and pore over the magnificent internal design by Hoglet & Co. Just be sure you get back to work!

Finding pleasure in the ordinary is not easy but you may feel all Downton Abbey-like using this linen-bound, gold-edged diary. These days we're all the Upstairs and the Downstairs help so a diary close to hand makes those commonplace tasks more pleasurable while taking a few pounds off that mental load we all carry.

Bespoke Letterpress Diary features:

Linen Stone bound cover
Gold foil cover and bookplate
Gold gilded edges
Decorative internal illustrated spreads by Hoglet & Co
Three satin ribbon makers
Perfect bound allowing the planner to lay flat when writing
Rear Pocket

Main Planner pages:

A monthly Goal forward planner at the start of each month (1 spread) which includes a Day list, Major Goals, Sub Goals, To-do list and lined notes pages.
A week to a page appointed planner (52 weekly spreads) which includes: Australian Public Holidays, Moon Phases, Major calendar date reminders (eg Mother's Day, Easter etc) and Equinoxes and Solstices. Each weekly page also includes weekly mini list, weekly success checklists and daily list planner. Equal space for weekdays and weekends.

Additional pages:

2022 and 2023 page calendar (1 spread)
A month at a view calendar (12 spreads)
Budget & Financial planning (2 spreads)
Birthday Calendar (2 spreads)
24 Yearly reflection questions (2 spreads)
Australian Public Holidays & Public School terms (1 spread)
World Wide national Holidays (1 spread)
International World Days (1 page)
Contacts Page (1 page)
Lined Notes Pages (8 pages)
Blank Sketch Pages (4 pages)
Rear pocket

Specification

220 heavyweight internal pages. Offset printed. Hardbound in durable linen.

Material

Heavyweight environmentally friendly,  chlorine-free, pure wood fibre paper in a lovely light ivory colour.

Size

165 x 238mm

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CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Card Frame

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An adjustable hanging frame for displaying your treasured greeting cards.

Create ever evolving wall decor by framing artwork quickly and switching your display easily. It adjusts to display different sized greeting cards, post cards, photos and prints. Just slide the top timber piece up and down the cord.

Designed and crafted in Australia. Made from premium, sustainable timber, and 100% cotton cord.

HOW IT WORKS

It’s fast and simple use - just slide the top timber piece up and down the cotton cord and place your greeting card into the slot.

SIZE GUIDE

The Card Frame easily adjusts to suit a wide variety of greeting cards.

Ideal Card Size - the common card size of A6 (15cm x 10cm) in portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal).

Available in blonde Australian hardwood or raw pine

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YOUR WILD BOOKS

YOUR WILD BOOKS | Your Wild Child

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More green time. Less screen time.

Your Wild Child is the highly anticipated second book in the Your Wild Child Books series by South Australian Brooke Davis. It features more than twenty nature play activities that your kids will love.

Our kids have something to teach us. Watch their ideas and creative nature unfurl with a little guidance from you and the inspiring WIld Imagination book from Your WIld Books.

Full of fresh ideas for things to create with nature, the easy to follow instructions and stunning photography by Megan Crabb will captivate and inspire your wild child.

Brooke Davis is the Founder and Director of Your Wild Imagination and Your Wild Books. Her work in helping children, parents, schools, communities all over Australia and now the world, find their wild child by re-discovering nature play activities is inspiring. Read more about Your Wild Books here in our BRANDS showcase.

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SELVEDGE Magazine | Issue 82 Lace

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Issue 82 Lace: the light fantastic

'I am embarrassed to admit that I used to be sceptical about lace — being put off by its associations with cheap lingerie. However, the more I discover about its past, present and future, the more intrigued I become. What textile carries so many contrasting messages? It is at the same time; demure, erotic, delicate, brutal, cheap, sophisticated, fragile and strong. It is made either with needle and thread, as in Alençon, in Normandy, France; with miniature bobbins on a cushion on one’s lap as is used in the case of Honiton lace from Devon; or, as with Leaver lace, making use of a cast iron loom weighing more than ten tons.

In the 19th century, lace instigated the famous Luddite riots, a series of attacks on factory looms in the UK, and was a catalyst for the smuggling of looms from Nottingham to St Pierre and Calais. Lace is, simultaneously, the darling of the haute couture fashion industry and a source of ridicule when used to shield prying eyes in suburban dwellings. In this issue, we unpick this most complex of materials, visualising the working of Leaver looms, tracing its history from Nottingham to Honiton and Calais, and examining its political status in the form of the veil.

This emotive material is a favourite amongst contemporary artists who manipulate its scale and substance to comment on gender and a myriad other messages lace conveys. Architects, on the other hand, enjoy its structural qualities of strength and delicacy. Finally enjoy the elegant beauty of lace observed in the photographs of Christine Mathieu on display at Calais’ Cite Dentelle Mode museum, and as we look forward to the spectacle of a Royal Wedding we wonder if Meghan Markle will choose a dress of Cluny lace – or maybe she will choose something by the American designer Vera Wang? '

Polly Leonard, Founder, Selvedge Magazine

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SELVEDGE Magazine | Issue 102 Mend

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September / October 2021

MEND Darn, Patch & Repair

"Darning is having a moment. We are surrounded by books about darning, workshops even high street brands are getting in on the act. There is no denying darning is cool and to own a visibly darned sweater is a status symbol. I wonder why we value darning so highly? Go back 200 years and everybody darned, as Vanessa Jones’ explains in her article Makers and Menders. There was little choice and certainly no kudos to mending. Back then, clothes were valued: for the fabric itself; precious, expensive and replaced rarely. Wear was a source of embarrassment and even shame as Kate Sekules describes in Evil in your Wardrobe. So, the skill to create a discrete repair was prized and practised. Girls would produce brightly coloured darning samplers that mimicked the patterns of woven cloth. The object was to use a matching thread for the actual darn so the wear would disappear. To produce visible mend would have been seen as wearing a badge of impoverishment and idleness.

Curiously, it is the pivot in the value system that accounts for the current trend. Now the majority of the clothes we wear have little financial or emotional value, yet our conscience drives us to increase their longevity and reduce their environmental impact. The incentive today is to use darning as a political statement, you can't do this if the darning is invisible. We talk to contemporary darners about why they darn and look at other methods for extending the life of clothes. Catching the eye is also the speciality of Mexican fashion designer and Instagram sensation Melania Chavarría. Collecting, altering and designing garments, she crafts striking tableaux vivants where her outfits tune in to Mexico City’s street art, producing images that brim with a bold presence and bracing, vibrant energy."

Polly Leonard, Founder & Editor of Selvedge Magazine

96 pages. Size 24 cm x 24 cm. Printed with soy-based inks on FSC certified paper which has been produced in an environmentally-friendly, socially responsible and economically viable manner.

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Proper Adventre

PROPER CYCLING | Issue Two

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Proper Cycling is a new independent magazine and journal dedicated to all things cycling, and covers mountain biking, road bikes, races and reviews.

Proper Cycling Issue Two brings you 196 pages of exciting and inspirational stories from people and brands from across the globe coupled with stunning photography to inspire your next ride. Issue Two also includes the 'Proper Stuff' section - a selection of the best cycling brands and products on the market.

Features in this issue include 'Queen of the Ardennes,' Anna Van Der Breggen, Gee Atherton's latest mountain biking project, cycling the Glens, mountain biking on Skye and news from the competitive arena including the Strade Bianche, and the cyclo-cross World Championships.

Designed and printed in the U.K.

Proper Cycling One is printed on a quality recycled paper with a 140gsm inner and a 300gsm cover with a scuff resistant matt laminated finish. Perfect bound and measuring 270 x 210mm with 176pp plus 4pp cover.

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CONQUISTA | Issue 21

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Conquista 21: the introvert’s edition. A bit like all the others then.

Here's what's to pore through in issue 21...

A British cycling dynasty whose members don’t like to draw attention to their achievements – for fear of “living in the past”. The nameless motorised sidekicks of the six-day scene. An astonishing Grand Tour achievement that no one noticed – not even the team that had pulled it off. A road trip into the wild and remote depths of Spain in celebration of high literature. A race with a thousand starters that you’ve never heard of. And a trip to the World Championships with some antipodean also-rans.

“I have ridden with two unbelievable descenders in my life: Sean Kelly and my Aunty Margaret.” Joe Earley (son of Martin Earley and Catherine Swinnerton).

After telling the story of Bernadette Swinnerton in issue 20, Suze Clemitson concludes her history of a remarkable cycling dynasty by telling the tales of younger siblings Catherine and Margaret. Don’t miss part two of Searching for the Swinnerton Sisters.

Ernest Hemingway called Spain “the last good country left”. Tom Owen and photographer Matt Grayson rode from Madrid to Pamplona, the two cities most closely associated with the author, across some of the wild and remote areas he loved above all. They tell the story of their adventures in Papa’s Bravas.

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Sidetracked Ltd

SIDETRACKED | Volume 21

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The Meaning of Trust in Adventure.

In Sidetracked Volume 21, the best stories of adventure in our time have been collected: groundbreaking journeys, pioneering ascents, endurance in the face of escalating challenges, and moments of quiet beauty in nature.

In ‘Polar Shadows’, Vincent Colliard and Caroline Côté face the long, brutal night of the Arctic winter with little beyond their reliance on one another to keep them going. Mónica Fuentes and Alberto Ojembarrena dig deep and trust in each other’s capabilities when trekking through a seldom-hiked region of Iceland, and Tamara Lunger and Simone Moro touch the very limits of human endurance while attempting the first winter crossing of two 8,000m Himalayan peaks – an expedition that changes Tamara’s life.

Join in an exploration of what it means to survive, and to accomplish things greater than ourselves, in this issue of Sidetracked.

144 pages, perfect bound, and printed in full colour on FSC approved uncoated 120gsm paper in the United Kingdom.

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CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Book Frame

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A finalist in the Frankie Good Stuff Awards 2019 here's an adjustable hanging frame for displaying open books.

Enjoy a page a day from your favourite albums, recipe books, kid's books, and magazines.

Designed and crafted in Australia by Corner Block Studio. Made from premium, sustainable timber and 100% cotton cord.

SIZE GUIDE:

The Book Frame easily adjusts to suit a wide variety of books. It's likely that anything in your bookcase will fit!

Book Height - up to 35cm.
Book Width - 18cm-28cm wide when closed / 36cm-56cm wide when open. (We think this size range looks the best. The frame is 41.5cm wide).
Book Thickness - up to 4cm when open. (The inside of the frame is 4cm deep).

Suits hardback and paperback.

Simple usage instructions with pictures are printed inside the packaging.

Fora Studios is proud to stock Corner Block Studio's designs which are Australian made from 100% renewable materials.

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CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Pressi Frame A1 - A2 - A3 - A4 - 50cm

CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Pressi Frame A1 - A2 - A3 - A4 - 50cm

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An easy and beautiful way to frame your artwork. Simple to use with no magnets or tools required.

Ideal for prints, photos, posters, kid's art, and original art - on paper, card or unhemmed fabric up to 1mm thick.

Designed and crafted in Australia by Corner Block Studio in Meanjin, Queensland, they are made from premium, sustainable timber and 100% cotton cord.

How it works

The artwork is gently clamped in each timber bar using a soft cotton cord. This securely holds the artwork, without damaging it.

The top and bottom 1cm of the artwork is covered by the timber.

The Pressi Frame suits paper or card up to 1mm thick (about 600 gsm card).

It also suits textiles if un-hemmed and with straight edges e.g. (linen, cloth, silk, canvas). For hemmed textiles see the tea towel frame.

Size Guide

Frame size and ideal artwork size:

(Tip - choose to suit the width of your artwork, the length can be anything.)

A5-15cm wide - suits A5 portrait orientation or 5-6" wide artwork (Special order - Please contact info@forastudios.com if you would like to order this size)

A4-22cm wide - suits A4 portrait, A5 landscape, 8"-8.5" wide artwork.

A3-30cm wide - suits A3 portrait, A4 landscape, or 11" wide artwork.

A2-43cm wide - suits A2 portrait, A3 landscape, or 16" wide artwork (Special Order - please contact info@forastudios.com if you would like to order this size)

A1-62cm wide - suits A1 portrait, A2 landscape, or 24" wide artwork.

50 cm - to suit Clubbies Surf Life Saving Clubs Screen Prints

Custom - We can also supply made-to-order custom sizes. Please contact us via info@forastudios.com should you wish to place a special order and will provide you with a quotation.

The artwork can also be narrower or wider than the timber bar - the timber or artwork will overhang accordingly.

Hanging Methods

Hidden (standard) - Hang from the 'keyhole' slot in the top timber bar onto a screw/nail/hook (not supplied) in your wall.

Cotton Cord (add on) - Love the cotton cord triangle look? Add it on and hang from, well, anything! Add it on here

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