Urban Cottage Industries Ltd.

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Historic Lighting (HistoricLighting.co.uk) affordable British made lighting classics. Components, bespoke manufacture & extensive 'ready to wear' collection. Expert advice, super-simple website, fast turnaround, legendary customer service. More down to earth than client list suggests: Hollywood: Scorsese, Burton, Boyle. Fashion: Hermes, Vuitton, Smith. Restaurants: Oliver, Blumenthal, Ramsey +1000's more indy businesses and private homes.

Moleskine Press (MoleskinePress.co.uk) works the UK's largest collection of linotype machines. We deboss your personalised text onto a moleskine and aim to get it delivered (beautifully packaged) through your letterbox the very next day. We are the only company in the world to offer this type of personalisation with no minimum order.

Fabric Cable (FabricCable.co.uk) a one-stop shop for all types of textile (cloth) sleeved lighting & electrical cable. From 1 metre to more than 100 kilometers (no minimum order), we carry the UK's largest range and largest stock. All orders placed before 11am ship same day. Our cables arrive beautifully packaged in 100% recyclable paper (no polythene/polystyrene). Free samples sets available for all who ask. Bespoke cable manufactured to order. Plastic cable is dead. Long live Fabric Cable!

Card Press (CardPress.co.uk) hand make personalised letterpress greeting cards. Front Cover → 4 lines of your own personal text, centre aligned. Inside → blank for you to add a personal note. Card → 100% pure cotton, the chunkiest & most luxurious that money can buy. British made → at the UK’s last remaining cotton paper mill. Font → ‘metro medium’, a typographic classic. Design → the letterpress impression is deep and crisp and even – you can easily feel the text, heavily indented / debossed into the paper (this is not digital print!). Next Day → order before 11am for delivery the next working day. Simple → and very beautiful.

Filament Lightbulbs (FilamentLightbulbs.co.uk) are beautiful and long lasting. Proudly hand made here in Europe for over 100 years, our lightbulb designs are often copied but never matched for distinctive hand-stitched filaments and vastly superior long-life, the symbol of design and workmanship. Our lightbulbs have enjoyed popularity among film industry, preservationists and traditionalists. Now a new generation of young designers is queuing up to support our unique creations. Beware of imititations.

Birthday Card Press (BirthdayCardPress.co.uk) offer personalised letterpress birthday cards with free next-day delivery (UK). Printed by hand on british made luxury pure cotton stock, order a personalised card before 11am and we'll get it to you the following day. High quality linotype and platen work, next day service. Bithday Card Press is unsurpassed in the letterpress community for quality and fast turnaround.

Kornflake (kornflake.co.uk) is a greeting & business card manufacturer | supplier with a small carbon footprint; Each Kornflake card is cut and printed from used breakfast cereal boxes using 100 year old cast-iron letterpresses. We re-use rather than just re-cycle, meaning that the environmental impact of the company is essentially zero. Our unique and innovative collection scheme has inspired and incentivised an army of school kids to get involved in recycling.

Pencil Press (PencilPress.co.uk) hand print linotype text on chunky pencils. Big, bright, white lettering, a classic linotype font set and foiled on jet black 'oversize' HB pencils. Never lose your pencil again. Next day delivery.

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