Northern California
The slow art ofgiving well.
We are opening our doors with two memberships. One remembers every date and sends a handwritten card in your name. The other posts a book and an artisan gift each month. The wider Guild shop follows later this year.
Now open · Membership
The Ribbon Card Society.
Give us the dates and the people. We remind you in good time, draft something in your voice, and one of our writers pens and posts the card. Ten dollars a card, nothing else.
- Birthday
- Anniversary
- Holiday
- Thank You
- Congratulations
- Sympathy
- New Baby
- Housewarming
- Custom Occasion
One
Create your account
A quiet place to keep the dates that matter.
Two
Enter your people and dates
Names, addresses, birthdays, anniversaries — as few or as many as you like.
Three
Choose card style and voice
Six papers, four voices. We keep to them all year.
Four
We remind you, in good time
By email or text, two weeks ahead. Never the morning of.
Five
Approve or write your own words
We draft something in your voice. Change a line, or all of them.
Six
A card is written and mailed
Pen to paper in our Northern California bindery, then posted.
Now open · Subscription
The Ribbon Book Club.
One book, one artisan gift, one very good cup of something — arriving in packaging handsome enough to keep on the shelf beside the book itself.
- MarchCoastal Gothic · Smoked sea salt caramels & a linen bookmark
- AprilThe Kitchen Table · Single-estate Assam & a beeswax candle
- MayLetters & Longing · Iron-gall ink and a hand-bound notebook
$42 / per month
Join the Book Club
The houses behind them
Every card and every box is made by hand.
- 1974
Dry Creek Vintners
Late-Harvest & Fortified Wine · Dry Creek Valley
- 1911
Tomales & Reed
Beeswax & Botanicals · Point Reyes
- 1996
Marlowe Confiserie
Chocolate & Confection · Berkeley
- 1948
Hartwell Bindery
Bookbinding & Stationery · Nevada City
- 1963
Cazadero Wool
Blankets & Knitwear · Mendocino
- 1902
Grass Valley Tea Works
Single-Estate Tea · Grass Valley
From our members
Kind words, kept.
“Twelve client hampers, twelve different cities, one invoice — and every single note in my own handwriting. I have never looked so organized.”
“The Book Club box is the only mail I look forward to. The October tin is still on my mantelpiece.”
“My concierge remembered my mother's birthday before I did. That is worth the membership on its own.”
The Guild Letter
The shop, the makers and what opens next.
One letter a month. No noise, no countdown timers.