2025 Ebel Studio Holiday Card
Stationary Design • Custom Holiday Cards
For our 2025 holiday card we drew on the traditions of American folk art to create a piece that felt both handmade and rooted in folk art history. The card pairs two aging crafts: Scherenschnitte, the German and Swiss art of intricate paper cutting, and tintype photography, a wet-plate process captured in collaboration with neighbor and tintype photographer Conrad Young. The result is an old-fashioned image framed by a delicate cut-paper border.
Equal parts research, craft, and patience, the card reflects the studio's ongoing interest in heritage techniques and its commitment to making objects that carry a genuine sense of place and time.
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Archive * No. 034: The Making of Our Holiday Card
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To take our Scherenschnitte border from concept to production meant designing the motif digitally and using a Cricut to cut it cleanly while preserving the fragile, hand-cut feel of the original technique.
Riley scored and folded each border to wrap the printed portrait, and Jillian wrote an original poem for the back, inspired by a California winter and the turn toward a new year.
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Interior Card