Kelp Paper - Raspberry Ripple

Quercus is an original Cambridge Imprint design, first published in spring 2022. It’s a pattern of alternating stripes of oak leaves and spots with an Arts and Crafts feel.

Cambridge Imprint is a small paper-making business in Cambridge, England, designing and printing patterned paper. It is known for beautiful colours, joyful illustration and typography, a lively, hand-drawn aesthetic, and meticulous attention to detail.

Using simple hand-stencilled screen-printing to create original designs, Cambridge Imprint employ spot-colour lithography to replicate the studio process in manufacturing the final paper product. The result is a matte paper of unparalleled intensity and clarity of colour, not to mention quality!

Kelp is an original Cambridge Imprint design, first published in 2025. It is an undulating line of waving or oscillating fronds, which could be found in nature or perhaps arising from a mathematical formula. When viewed from far away a natural vertical stripe emerges optically that is not evident close up.

Cambridge Imprint paper is printed in England on FSC paper of archiving quality, using vegetable oil-based inks that are friendly to the environment. Each sheet is printed in one or two hand-mixed inks on uncoated 90 gsm paper to create a high quality matte paper with a hand-printed feel to it. A sheet of paper measures 50 cm x 70 cm.