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Bundle of antique papers, some with pressed flowers.
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Bundle of Antique Papers

What is included?

  • Antique French documents, some dating back to the eighteenth century.
  • Vintage ephemera: bills, invoices, letters.
  • Some new papers, cards, luggage labels and envelopes so you have something to decorate.
Many of the antique documents are over two hundred years old, and are very beautiful, with intriguing seals or examples of calligraphy. If you subscribe to The Stitcher's Journal you can access an article about collaging with antique papers on the Inspiration Board.

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Price range: £35.00 through £40.00

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I started to collect these in 2015, having found a pile of eighteenth-century legal documents at an antiques fair. the exquisite calligraphy and embossed stamps and seals are fascinating. The bundles are beautiful objects in themselves. I use them for collage and for making decorations as in the foldout included in Issue 23 of The Stitcher’s Journal (December 2024). If you are a new subscriber, you can still access this foldout via the Inspiration Board item ‘Collaging with antique papers’.

The price includes shipping to all areas of your location.

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Update for US customers

2 September 2025

Just a brief update to say that  Royal Mail and Parcelforce have merged and come up with a fantastic new system. It just requires some serious tweaks to the website, so if US customers could just hold off for a few more days while I ascertain precisely where we stand, and my website developer implements the changes which will enable us to send kits and journals ‘fully landed’, with the customer seeing the duty paid at the checkout. The Stitcher’s Journal is free of duty. My embroidery kits bear 11.4%. My bundles of used fabrics are also free of duty. So we are just setting up accounts and integrating the website, and I am very hopeful that any price increases will be minimal.

I am taking the opportunity to re-stock the website at the same time, so that we can re-open with some new things on offer. I am also working on Issue 26 of The Stitcher’s Journal to come out later this month.

Changes can be unsettling, but sometimes, once one gets to grips with them, things don’t look so bad so I just want to reassure my US customers that it is not all doom and gloom.

A newsletter will be going out as soon as everything is set up. I am also confident that I can soon open up to the EU again; I have an online meeting with a Product Safety Compliance Company in which I hope to demonstrate that neither The Stitcher’s Journal nor my embroidery kits pose a danger to anyone. 

Thank you for your patience and supportive messages, each one just spurs me on, even after a long day buried in the Harmonised Tariff Schedule, which actually makes the most fascinating and distracting reading!

With very best wishes,
Caroline