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March 29th, 2009

Nursery Rhymes

Nursery rhymes, are traditional English and American very short songs.
They not only were to sing to children but also as parodies to royalty or the political events of the day, specially from the 16th Century when the king Henry VIII.
Our plate represents six of them: Little Miss Muffet, Little Boy Blue, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, [...]

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March 26th, 2009

Pop Notebooks

The covers of these notebooks are collage mosaics made with square-cut sheets from magazines. We choose those fragments where preponderate the violet, thus achieving a monochromatic surface. The result is a notebook with covers rigid, modern and yet unique.
To the inside of the lids were used the same approach but with a white background. The [...]

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March 25th, 2009

Vintage Scans: Cucina Italiana

Some time ago our friend Gianna Ferretti sent us the wonderful images of the covers from the ‘50 magazine Cucina Italiana.
They show nice smiling housewives doing everyday tasks with the comfort offered by the modernity.
The digital images can be purchased in our store and the jpg files will be shipped as soon as possible.

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March 24th, 2009

Bagasse Paper

Do you know that not all paper is derived from the felling of trees?
Another way to make paper more easily and cheaply from bagasse, the fibrous sugar cane waste from sugar production, an eco friendly renewable resource which when converted to paper reduces the demand for trees significantly.
Argentina has important sugar cane production which residue [...]

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March 24th, 2009

Welcome!!!

Welcome!!
Here is the new way to see our store Ciaffi, where you can find cool recycled notebooks, some stationery items and our collection of vintage scans images.
Have a nice Ciaffi!

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March 24th, 2009

This is your first post!

Welcome to Maker Spot. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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