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The atelier
How it's made
Your words, a real fountain pen, iron-gall ink and two hands in Hamburg.
From your words to the post box
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Your words
You write the text and choose the date. We take your words as they are and never rewrite them.
- 02
Single-line strokes
Our renderer turns each letter into one continuous line, joined like a hand would join it, with small variations so no two letters are identical.
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A real fountain pen
A machine guides a Lamy Safari fountain pen filled with Rohrer & Klingner Salix, an iron-gall ink, across an A6 card of Munken Pure.
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Checked by hand
A person looks at every card. A blot or a skipped line means the card is written again before it leaves.
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Stamped and posted
The C6 envelope is addressed by the same pen, gets a real stamp and is posted by hand in Hamburg.
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Your data deleted
Thirty days after posting, the text, names and addresses are deleted automatically.
Is the card written by a person?
No, and we would rather tell you than let you guess. A person writes the words: you. A machine guides a real fountain pen. A person checks every card, stamps it and posts it.
The ink is real ink and the words are not printed. You can feel where the nib pressed into the paper, and the ink sinks into the fibres and darkens as it dries.
Written with a real pen guided by a machine, then checked and posted by hand in Hamburg. How it's made
What we write with
The machine
A UUNA TEK iDraw H, fed by hand one card at a time. It holds the pen; it does not choose the words.
The pen
A Lamy Safari fountain pen. A steel nib, refilled from the bottle.
The ink
Salix by Rohrer & Klingner, an iron-gall ink. It goes on blue and darkens on the paper.
The paper
A6 cards in Munken Pure, a creme paper, with C6 envelopes and a real Deutsche Post stamp.
Questions
Is the card written by a person?
No, and we say so plainly. You choose the words, a machine guides a real fountain pen with real ink, and a person checks every card, stamps it and posts it by hand in Hamburg. The words are not printed.