Estienne

The stock room

Choose how it feels.

Every sheet, colour and finish changes the way the card receives light and meets the hand.

The Craft

Materials & Finishes

Premium isn't a word here — it's a weight, a bite, a sheen you can feel. This is what your card is made of.

Papers

Cotton stocks from Gmund and comparable mills — soft, warm and substantial, in weights from a confident 300gsm to a duplexed 600gsm and beyond.

Choose colour and texture, or duplex two sheets to bury a coloured core that shows only at the edge. Heavier isn't a gimmick — it's the first thing a hand notices.

Modern tactile paper and card textures
Stock, grain and edge · choose how it feels
Modern raised relief on premium cotton stock
Blind emboss · impression without ink
Raised relief across a textured paper surface
Paper relief · depth at the fingertip
Modern painted edges on a stack of premium cards
Edge finishing · colour in profile

Finishes

Hot-foil

Metallic and pigment foils stamped under heat and pressure — gold, copper, blind white, oxblood.

Blind emboss & deboss

Raised or recessed detail with no ink — texture you read with your fingertips.

Letterpress finish detail

Letterpress

The deep, tactile bite of type pressed into soft cotton stock. The oldest trick, still the best.

Edge painting & gilding

Colour or metal leaf applied to the card edge — a line of surprise when it's turned.

Spot UV & gloss finish detail

Spot UV & gloss

A high-shine varnish on selected areas against a matte ground; light does the work.

Laser detail

Fine cut-through and etched detail for filigree and monograms too delicate to print.

Duplex & coloured core

Two sheets bonded around a coloured core — oxblood, olive or gold — a seam that shows only at the edge.

See them on your card

Open the 3D studio, choose a stock and a finish, and turn the card in your hands before we press it.

Design your own →

Inks & colour

CMYK for photographic richness, spot colours for exact brand matches, and metallics mixed into the ink itself. We proof colour before we commit it to cotton.

The anatomy of a card: stock, duplex core, printed layer, finish and edge — five decisions that together decide how it feels in the hand.