Dark Library Stamp Washi Tape

For bookworms, book moths, library rats, ink drinkers, and every other creature who has ever disappeared happily into a book.

Shelley Couvillion’s Dark Library Stamp Washi Tape turns book-loving idioms from around the world into a wonderfully strange series of illustrated postage stamps.

Across the tape you’ll find tiny tributes to the many ways languages describe people who simply cannot get enough books—from the familiar bookworm to book moths, ink drinkers, library rats, book eaters, and other wonderfully peculiar literary creatures.

Printed in a moody palette of black, cream, rust, and warm orange, the repeating stamp design feels a little like something discovered in the correspondence drawer of a very old library.

Use it in journals and planners, decorate letters and packages, add it to collages, or deploy it anywhere that could benefit from a tiny procession of literary oddballs.

Details

Width: 25 mm
Length: 5 m
Design: Illustrated postage stamps inspired by book-loving idioms from languages around the world
Palette: Black, cream, rust, and warm orange
Great for: Journaling, planners, scrapbooking, collage, correspondence, gift wrapping, and bookish craft projects

Why We Love It

Apparently, book people are strange in every language.

We love that this tape starts with something delightfully specific: the many expressions people around the world have invented for someone who reads voraciously.

And then Shelley turns those words into tiny pieces of art.

The result is bookish without being precious, scholarly without being serious, and just odd enough to make you stop and look closely—which is exactly what good washi tape should do.

About Shelley Couvillion

Shelley Couvillion is an illustrator and designer whose work draws from books, folklore, history, nature, and wonderfully specific bits of cultural ephemera. Her stationery and paper goods have the feeling of tiny illustrated discoveries—sometimes literary, sometimes peculiar, and frequently both.