The Pattern Book

A new bundle of botanical forms 🌿

Our Plants, Trees & Botanical Bundle gathers designs centred on leaves, trees and plant structures, including illustrated cards and printed wraps drawn from natural history sources.

From branching forms to repeating leaf patterns, each piece highlights the quiet order and rhythm found in the natural world.

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At this time of year, we always find ourselves returning to the natural world 🌿 Botanical studies, seed catalogues and flower charts, all created to observe and understand the changing seasons with care and precision.

Many of our designs are adapted from these kinds of sources, where plants, trees and flowers were once documented in remarkable detail. Some scientific, some ornamental, all rich in colour, pattern and curiosity.

A celebration of spring, and of the enduring beauty of nature observed on paper.

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Wings, pattern, and delicate symmetry 🦋

Our Paper Butterflies bundle brings together a series of designs inspired by Lepidoptera, adapted from detailed plates and decorative sources.

A small exploration of form and colour, where nature meets ornament.

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Illustrations in this bundle are sourced from The Royal Entomological Society library. The Pattern Book donates 10% of the net sale price of this bundle to the Royal Entomological Society, registered UK charity number 213620. www.royentsoc.org.

There’s a particular pleasure in receiving a card beautiful enough to keep long after the message has been read. Framed on a wall, propped on a mantelpiece, or tucked among books and gathered objects, it becomes part of the room itself.

Many of our designs begin as archival illustrations and decorative prints, originally intended to be studied, collected and admired. Reimagined as cards, they continue to bring colour, character and curiosity into everyday spaces.

Often, the temptation is to buy one to send and another to keep. A perfectly reasonable impulse, if you ask us.

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Five new bundles, thoughtfully gathered 🌿

We’ve brought together a selection of designs into five new bundles, each shaped by a shared theme and drawn from the archive.

💼 'The Every Day' reflects life’s smaller moments, from travel to celebration.
🍃 'Plants, Trees & Botanical' explores leaves, ferns and trees, drawn from botanical studies.
🦋 'Paper Butterflies' captures Lepidoptera in careful arrangement from natural history illustration.
💌 'Just to Say…' brings together designs for messages both joyful and considered.
🌻 'Flower Varieties' brings together cultivated blooms and wild species in studied arrangement.

Each one offers a small, considered way to explore the collection.

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A new bundle, gathered in bloom 🌸

Our Flower Varieties bundle brings together a selection of floral designs drawn from botanical illustration and archival sources.

A vibrant collection of petals, pattern and seasonal colour, each one reflecting a different way of observing the natural world in print.

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After ten years of The Pattern Book, certain images have stayed with us...

Returned to, reprinted, and often admired. Chosen not for popularity alone, but for their composition, subject, and enduring appeal.

Among them are:
🍃 Know Your Broadleaves: Sourced from a Forestry Commission guide to British trees, both practical (there's a key on the reverse of the card) and beautifully ordered.
🧱 Forms of Bricks: Drawn from a construction manual, where function becomes pattern.
🎂 Illuminated Happy Birthday: Adapted from early European lettering, rich in ornament and celebration.
📃 Working From Home: A Parisian illustration that feels, in its own way, quietly contemporary.

Each drawn from a different context, each offering something distinct. Together, they reflect the kinds of images we are always hoping to find.

Not all Easter cards begin with bunnies and pastels. Ours tend to take a different route, drawn from natural history, encyclopaedias, and the more curious corners of print.

A wren’s nest, carefully described and illustrated in 1875, its structure woven from moss and grass. A chart of eggs from a French encyclopaedia of 1898, each one distinct, each quietly precise. Flower families, observed and ordered in 1928, revealing the relationships beneath the bloom. And, for those inclined towards the unexpected, a rabbit-eared demon from an 18th-century compendium of magical illustration.

For those who like their Easter with a touch of curiosity. Tap here to discover these and more > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/

What began in 2016 as a shared curiosity for historical imagery has grown into a collection shaped by archives, libraries, and a love of print.

Over the past decade, we’ve gathered designs from scientific texts, botanical studies and forgotten books, each one adapted with care and given a new life on paper.

To mark the occasion, we’re offering 10% off for 10 days.

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*Offer valid from 1st April to 10th April 2026. T&Cs apply.

The first day of spring is a fine time to reach out 🌱

As the season begins to turn, it feels natural to send something outwards; a small note, a kind thought, a reminder of connection.

Just as flowers begin to surface and stretch toward the light, so too do friendships, ideas, conversations. A notecard is a way of tending to these small, important things.

Our floral sets, drawn from botanical and ornamental sources, are made for moments like these.

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