Fine-art prints of museum masterpieces, apparel and homeware carrying our own line-art designs, and the books they come from. Made in Dehradun, printed near you.https://merryfold.com/en-ushttps://merryfold.com/blog/what-made-in-dehradun-means/https://merryfold.com/blog/what-made-in-dehradun-means/Where the designs come from, where the printing happens, and why those are two different places.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTstudioMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/turner-painted-a-train/https://merryfold.com/blog/turner-painted-a-train/Rain, Steam, and Speed makes the machine and the weather out of the same paint. Critics complained you could not tell what anything was.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTgalleryturnerlookingMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/labyrinth-versus-maze/https://merryfold.com/blog/labyrinth-versus-maze/One has a single path and no choices. The other has junctions and dead ends. Calling them the same thing mis-sells the page.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignspuzzlesMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/monet-shadows-are-not-grey/https://merryfold.com/blog/monet-shadows-are-not-grey/In the wheat-stack series the darkest part of the picture is also the most colourful. Here is what he was doing.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTgallerymonetcolourMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/printable-pages-free-account/https://merryfold.com/blog/printable-pages-free-account/Extra printable pages are included with our books and packs — free account, no purchase needed to download the free ones.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTstudioprintablesMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/what-a-tronie-is/https://merryfold.com/blog/what-a-tronie-is/It is a tronie — a Dutch genre of invented head study. Knowing that makes the "who was she?" question the wrong one.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTgalleryvermeerlookingMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/van-gogh-bedroom-colour-list/https://merryfold.com/blog/van-gogh-bedroom-colour-list/He described exactly what each surface was to be, and why. Reading the letter beside the painting changes what you see.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTgalleryvan-goghlookingMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/bold-and-easy-is-a-design-brief/https://merryfold.com/blog/bold-and-easy-is-a-design-brief/Thick lines and open fields are harder to draw well than intricate ones. Here is the test we use.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignsstudioaccessibilityMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/how-we-choose-paper/https://merryfold.com/blog/how-we-choose-paper/What 240 gsm cotton rag actually means, why it costs more than satin poster stock, and when you should buy the cheaper one.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTstudiomaterialsMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/why-the-great-wave-is-not-about-the-wave/https://merryfold.com/blog/why-the-great-wave-is-not-about-the-wave/Hokusai's most famous print is the first in a series about a mountain. Once you find Fuji, the composition reorganises itself.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTgalleryhokusailookingMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/girih-five-tiles/https://merryfold.com/blog/girih-five-tiles/Girih patterns look impossibly complicated and are built from five shapes. Here is the set, and what the tilemakers were actually drawing.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignsgeometrygirihMerryfold Studiohttps://merryfold.com/blog/what-a-kolam-actually-is/https://merryfold.com/blog/what-a-kolam-actually-is/A kolam is one unbroken line looped around a grid of dots. That constraint is the whole art form — here is how it works and how to draw your first one.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignshow-tokolamMerryfold Studio