i have a thing for stamps. every year around christmas i collect dozens of them from local craft stores or my favorite online sellers and gear up to design my own homemade wrapping paper. it’s usually of the kraft-paper variety but i think it’s much better than buying those $18 wrapping paper rolls (i save those for special, more permanent projects). meg posted these great tomoko kataoka stamps the other day and i instantly imagined the packages for ac and my dad filled with little stamps depicting mathematical symbols. it doesn’t look like these are available for regular retail sale but you can contact the artist right here if you’re interested in purchasing any of these. they’re part of an exhibition so i’d expect selling prices to be well above your typical $5 stamp.
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these are amazing. i would love to use them to make wrapping paper (light blue ink on kraft paper = love)!
What a great idea! Can you let us know an online resource for buying interesting stamps? Thanks, Grace!
adina
sure! these are my favs:
impressrubberstamps.com (my stamp mecca)
katespaperie.com
http://www.thesmallobject.com/products.html
http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/rubberstamps/index.html
grace
what about favorite NYC-area brick and mortar stores?
thanks!
emla
kates paperie has a great brick and mortar store on broadway near prince with great stamps :)
grace
Hi there. Kates moved from Bway to Spring and Crosby. The store isn’t what it used to be, I was just there the other day and stock (stamps, paper, books, etc) seems to have shrunken greatly…which is a huge disappointment! In NYC I go to The Ink Pad (8th and W. 12th) for stamps…she has a great selection.
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