Cutting Room Floor is a chance for you to peek behind the curtain and see the ideas that, for whatever reason, never made it into being. It’s an opportunity to see just how we’re willing to dream for our clients. They’re ideas we’d really love to see produced. Feel free to take these ideas and run. Of course, we’d love to make them for the right client. Is it you?

This one would be great for an apparel-related business card or a casual wedding invitation. The concept’s pretty simple: Woven fabric tags (like the ones found in the collar of most quality clothing) sewn into a scored/folded seam on a letterpress-printed card (perhaps a business card or wedding invitation). Of course, the design could be laid out any way appropriate to the concept – it doesn’t have to be done as I sketched it.

The options are pretty limitless here, but what I really like is the use of contrasting textures (the tag vs paper) and the potential to hide something (rewarding the careful observer) on the back of a half-folded label.

I think it would be an ideal business card (or anything else, really) for a tailor or seamstress, a fashion designer, a t-shirt manufacturer, or a milliner (what a cool word!).

If you’d like to have your own letterpress business card with a woven fabric label sewn in, you could expect to spend somewhere around $1.50-$2.00 per card at a quantity of 1,000 (depending on the complexity). Like all letterpress projects, the price per-card gets smaller as the quantity ordered increases.

If you’d like to have your own letterpress and fabric label business cards, leave us a note and we’ll get started dreaming with you right away.