About Merryfold

What we actually do

Three things. We draw line art in families — kolam, girih, celtic knot, botanical, celestial and five more — and put them on prints, clothes, homeware and cases. We publish books from those drawings: colouring books, drawing-practice books, puzzle books, and an art library of public-domain paintings. And we write about the paintings, properly, on merryfold.art, because almost nobody selling reproductions bothers to tell you what you are looking at.

Where things are made

The drawing happens in Dehradun. The printing does not. Your order goes to the print partner closest to your delivery address, so a hoodie ordered in Leeds is printed in Europe and one ordered in Austin is printed in North America. That is why delivery is usually under a week, and why nothing is made before somebody wants it.

We do not own the presses and we do not hand-print anything. The people who print your order work for our partners. We would rather say that than imply a workshop that does not exist.

What we will not do

• Show a star rating we did not receive, or a review we did not get.
• Call the free printable pages a gift or a bonus. They are included, and that is the word for it.
• Run a countdown that resets when you reload, or tell you that eleven people are viewing this page.
• Print a painting without naming the museum that holds it and the licence it is under.
• Sell a design on a product it does not survive on. Some of our families go blurry small; we say so.

The name

A fold is a crease you put in on purpose. Unfolding is what happens when somebody finally gives themselves permission to draw. The crane in the logo is the obvious reference and we are not going to pretend it is subtle.

Get in touch

Contact reaches the two of us directly. There is no support department, so a reply takes a day or two and comes from a person.