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Morris & Essex cards are now printed on French Paper stock, domestically manufactured using hydro power and some recycled content. T-shirts are now printed on organic cotton!
Check out these really exciting new Morris & Essex collaborations:
Galison Press Journals, stickers, etc
Hello Lucky customizable holiday cards!
Morris & Essex cards are currently available at a number of shops around the world, including:
•Terrain at 914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills, PA , USA.
•Pinecone and Chickadee at 6 Free Street, Portland, ME, USA.
•Ferdinand at 243 Congress Street, Portland, ME, USA.
•North Creek Farm at 24 Sebasco Road, Phippsburg, ME, USA.
•Maine Maven at 31 Mill Street, Orono, ME, USA.
•Dots and Loops Handmade at 183 Lincoln Road, Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
•Coucou at Thames 1437 in Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
•Newspaper Taxi at 247 Australia Street, Newtown, Australia.
•Kate's Paperie at locations throughout Manhattan. New York, NY, USA.
•Renegade Handmade 1924 West Division St. Chicago, IL, USA.
•Magpie and Rye at 262 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA, USA.
•Clay Cotton and Wood at 149 Main Street, Beacon, NY, USA.
•Papel New York at 225 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
•Roots and Tendrils at 2 Cross Street, Belfast, ME, USA.
•Catbird at 219 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
•Muddy's Bake Shop at 5101 Sanderlin Ste 114, Memphis, TN, USA
Morris & Essex products are all designed and printed by me, Eliza Jane Curtis, in my farmhouse studio in the small historic district of Limington, Maine. My work is a combination of letterpress, linocut block-printing and silkscreen, using both traditional screenprinting techniques and a new-fangled Japanese Gocco machine.
Morris & Essex began around 1998 as a series of hand-printed birds on thrift-shop t-shirts, made in the silkscreen studio at Parsons School of Design. Over the years, Morris & Essex productions have moved with me from Brooklyn, NY to Buenos Aires, Argentina and now to an 1800's farm in rural Maine.
Designs combine my love of historic ornament and decorative ephemera, and memories of childhood daydreams in the fields and forests of Maine to create motifs of geometry, nature and fantasy.