The Pattern Book

The Pattern Book The Pattern Book is a greetings card publisher supplying galleries, bookshops and upmarket gift and stationery stores.

We curate images from the archives of art, literature and science and repurpose them for the contemporary eye.

A new bundle of botanical forms 🌿Our Plants, Trees & Botanical Bundle gathers designs centred on leaves, trees and plant...
28/05/2026

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.

Explore the bundle > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/bundles-1

At this time of year, we always find ourselves returning to the natural world 🌿 Botanical studies, seed catalogues and f...
23/05/2026

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.

Explore our nature-inspired designs > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/natural-world

Wings, pattern, and delicate symmetry 🦋Our Paper Butterflies bundle brings together a series of designs inspired by Lepi...
18/05/2026

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.

Explore the bundle > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/bundles-1
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 ...
09/05/2026

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.

Discover our greeting cards > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/

Five new bundles, thoughtfully gathered 🌿We’ve brought together a selection of designs into five new bundles, each shape...
06/05/2026

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.

Explore the bundles > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/bundles-1

A new bundle, gathered in bloom 🌸Our Flower Varieties bundle brings together a selection of floral designs drawn from bo...
23/04/2026

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.

Explore the bundle > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/bundles-1

After ten years of The Pattern Book, certain images have stayed with us...Returned to, reprinted, and often admired. Cho...
09/04/2026

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, en...
05/04/2026

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, librarie...
01/04/2026

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.

Use code PB10 at checkout > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/

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

24/03/2026

A miniature world under glass 🌿

Our Terrarium card is adapted from an illustration in Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (1879), a publication rich in ornament, advice and domestic detail. The original terrariums - or Wardian cases - were first created in the mid-19th century to protect delicate plants from London soot, forming their own gentle ecosystems in miniature.

At this time of year, as light lengthens and everything begins to shift, there’s something quietly reassuring about the idea of a contained world, carefully tended.

A small design for those who love structure, stillness and green things > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/new-collection/products/terrarium

The first day of spring is a fine time to reach out 🌱As the season begins to turn, it feels natural to send something ou...
20/03/2026

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.

Explore the collection > https://thepatternbook.co.uk/collections/notecards

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