Marbled greeting card
Marbled greeting card
Giulio Giannini
Marbled paper is made one sheet at a time. Colour is scattered onto a bath thickened with seaweed, drawn into the swirled, feathered pattern with a comb, and lifted away on a single sheet - then hung to dry, the way Giulio Giannini e Figlio have dried it for generations. This card was made exactly that way: pegged to a line in a Florentine bottega.
Because the pattern is taken once and cannot be taken again, no two cards are the same.
A blank card, left for your own words.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product information
Includes envelope
Small 9cm x 13cm
Medium 12cm x 18cm
An assortment of colours is avaiable and will be selected at random. If you would like a specific colour please let us know.
About Giulio Giannini & Figlio
Marbling is close to a thousand years old. It came west along trade routes, reached Europe through the Arab world, and by the nineteenth century had found a particular home in Florence. In 1856, Pietro Giannini opened a stationery and bookbinding bottega in Piazza Pitti, in the Oltrarno, a few steps from the Palazzo Pitti. It has been there ever since - long enough that you could visit Florence for years and still walk past it.
The craft has moved through the family without a break since: six generations of it. Maria Giannini runs the bottega now, alongside Guido Junior, the fifth generation - and the name, "e Figlio," still records an earlier Giulio and his son. The first Gianninis bound books for the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In the generations since, the family has trained makers who went on to open workshops of their own, in Italy and beyond.
The marbled paper is made the old way, one sheet at a time. Colour is dropped onto a bath thickened with seaweed, combed and feathered into pattern, and lifted away in a single pass. No two sheets are the same; no sheet can be made twice. From that paper - and from Florentine leather - the bottega binds notebooks and photo albums, and hand block-prints its gift wrap, each piece finished by hand in the room behind the shop.
The marbled paper across The Leopard - the homepage, the identity - is theirs.
Giulio Giannini e Figlio is exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.
