Personalised cotton anniversary gifts
Two years in. Cotton is the tradition — and our prints are made on cotton-fibre archival paper, the same stock used by fine-art print houses. The honest version of the second-anniversary gift.
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The cotton anniversary, on actual cotton fibre
Two years of marriage. Cotton, traditionally — and most cotton-anniversary gifts on the high street are a cotton tea towel or a cotton tote bag with a heart printed on it. Ours is different: our prints are made on cotton-fibre archival paper. Real cotton rag in the sheet, not wood pulp. The same paper specification used by the best fine-art print studios in London and New York, because cotton-fibre paper holds ink better, sits flatter, and lasts longer than anything made from tree fibre.
Pick the print — the map of where you live now, the night sky from a date that matters, the lyrics of a song you both come back to — and the cotton tradition is woven (literally) into the paper itself.
01 / SHOP THE OCCASION
The right print for the moment.
HOW IT WORKS
Made by hand, finished like a gallery.
Real cotton-fibre paper, 310gsm
Acid-free, museum-grade, fade-resistant — and made from cotton rather than wood pulp, which is what makes it valid for the 2nd anniversary.
Designed by you, live
Type the date. Drop the pin. Choose the song. Our designer renders every change as you make it.
Hand-framed in London
Cut, joined and finished in our own studio. Real-wood and aluminium mouldings, glazed or open-faced.
About
Why cotton-fibre paper matters for the 2nd anniversary
The 2nd wedding anniversary tradition in the UK is cotton. Most cotton-anniversary gifts on the market lean into the textile reading — cushions, tea towels, embroidered hankies — which is fine if that's the gift you want. But there is a second, equally valid reading: the paper itself. The best fine-art papers in the world are made not from wood pulp but from cotton rag, the same fibre that goes into a cotton shirt. The Library of Congress, the V&A, and every museum that takes preservation seriously holds works on cotton-fibre paper for a reason — it does not yellow, does not embrittle, and holds ink with a depth that wood-pulp paper cannot match.
Our archival paper is 310gsm cotton-fibre. So when we say 'a cotton anniversary gift', we mean a print whose paper is, literally, woven from cotton. A keepsake that will look the same on the 50th anniversary as it does on the 2nd.
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