Christmas Cards
A NEW range of Christmas cards
featuring designs made world famous by Moorcroft Art Pottery. The cards are embossed to
represent the tube-lining of the original tile and spot-varnished to recreate the
ceramic surface.
Each card is supplied with a
colour coordinated
120 gsm pearlised envelope and wrapped in a cellophane sleeve
bearing the Moorcroft logo.
Please note: Click images for a detailed view.
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Robin at Rest Christmas Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
MC007
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: A wise looking robin with head bowed, perches on a small holly branch with a
halo of snow behind him. Set in a winter landscape lit by a haunting full moon. |
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Shepherds Watch Christmas Card
Designer Kerry Goodwin
MC008
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: While shepherds watched their flocks by night all seated on the ground the
angel of the Lord came down and glory shone around. |
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Snowberry Christmas Card
Designer Nicola Slaney
MC009
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: Crisp white winter berries cascade from their branches while small, pink
bell-shaped flowers add a flush of winter colour. |
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New Moon at Christmas Card
Designer Sian Leeper
MC001
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: Small cottages, a church and a Moorcroft Christmas tree set in a landscape
of snow, all watched over by a crescent moon and a midnight blue sky filled
with stars. |
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Candlelight Christmas Card
Designer Nicola Slaney
MC002
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: Classic Moorcroft imagery shows golden candlelight flowing upwards from symbolic
splashes of purple, green and red. |
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Hellebore Christmas Card
Designer Nicola Slaney
MC003
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: A feast of Christmas Hellebore images fro Moorcroft in colors of cream and
burgundy. |
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Snowdrift Christmas Card
Designer Paul Hilditch
MC004
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: Snowdrops emerging from snow against a striking backcloth of monochrome black in traditional Moorcroft Style. |
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Arctic Tundra Christmas Card
Designer Sian Leeper
MC005
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: A family of Moorcroft polar bears in an artistic panel created by the wings
of a stylised arctic tern. |
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Woodside Farm Christmas Card
Designer Anji Davenport
MC006
$3.75 each
Occasion: Christmas
Inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Size: 5.8 inches x 5.8 inches
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Background: Eerie Moorcroft images of a cold winter landscape home to a solitary fox
looking across fields covered in freshly-fallen snow. |
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2008 Moorcroft Calendar
We are very pleased to announce the first ever Moorcroft Calendar
with twelve Moorcroft patterns gracing the pages of this beautiful 2008
Calendar.
The twelve featured Moorcroft patterns will be:
All of the images in the calendar will be embossed &
spot varnished and
calendar is about 12 1/2 inches wide by 13 1/4 inches tall. This beautiful
spiral bound Calendar will feature White Road to Tuscany on the front cover
shown below. Since the calendar will be printed in England, the calendar will list English national holidays.
Expected availability is from August 2007 and although production of
the first Moorcroft calendar will be limited but “Priority” reservations can
be made up to April 15th.
Please note: Click images for a detailed view.
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2008 Moorcroft Calendar
Twelve embossed pages with popular Moorcroft designs
MORCAL/2008
$ 28.00
($ 25.20 w/Club discount)
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Greeting Cards
A NEW range of greeting cards
featuring designs made world famous by Moorcroft Art Pottery. The cards are embossed to
represent the tube-lining of the original tile and spot-varnished to recreate the
ceramic surface.
Each card is supplied with a
colour coordinated
120 gsm pearlised envelope and wrapped in a cellophane sleeve
bearing the Moorcroft logo.
Please note: Click images for a detailed view.
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Song of the Wind Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons
NE001
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: On Emma Bossons' haunting Moorcroft image, the earth and the sky bend
to the song of the wind. Only flowers, plants and trees which grow from the earth
remain constant, beautiful and upright. |
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Impala Greeting Card
Designer Terry Goodwin
NE002
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Poetry in motion with wild impala racing in unison through the African
bush, captured forever by Moorcroft designer, Terry Goodwin. Grass and trees bend as the impala sprint past, emphasizing their movement and
graceful energy. |
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Summer's Day Greeting Card
Designer Sally Guy
NE003
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: A magical combination of foxgloves and butterflies radiating the warmth
of a summer day from guest Moorcroft designer, Sally Guy. |
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Red Kites Greeting Card
Designer Philip Gibson
NE004
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: From the Chilton Hills to the Cotswolds and from there, northeast to
Saffron Walden on the Cambridge/Essex borders, red kites are once more a familiar
sight in the English skies. Soaring movement of birds in flight from former Moorcroft
Designer Philip Gibson. |
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Memory Lane Greeting Card
Designer Nicola Slaney
NE005
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: One of the traditional and best loved of all English flowers, the
Forget-Me-Not makes a welcome reappearance in Moorcroft art under the guise of Memory
Lane designed by Nicola Slaney. |
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Hermanus Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
NE006
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: An African Robin hangs precariously from a tree branch with a designer
medley of King Protea flowers for company. Rare images from Rachel Bishop, senior
designer at Moorcroft. |
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Combermere Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
NE007
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: In the grounds of Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, carpets of Bluebells spread
swathes of blue, white and pink beneath the trees. An opportunity for traditional
English design too powerful for senior Moorcroft designer, Rachel Bishop, to resist. |
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Juno's Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
NE008
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: After a fierce, legendary battle between Argus, the monster and Mercury
the God, Juno bestowed the eyes of Argus to the peacocks which drew her war chariot
and placed them in their tails. In return, the Peacocks pledged to protect Juno for
eternity. No a symbol of eternity and perpetual devotion, the birds are featured by
senior Moorcroft designer, Rachel Bishop in Juno's Gift. |
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Fly Away Home Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
ME026
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: A magical mix of agapanthus flowers from senior Moorcroft designer, Rachel Bishop,
plus some lively ladybirds, one of them flying home. |
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Avalon Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME025
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Avalon marshes in Gloucestershire, England are rich in aquatic
plants and insects. Flag Irises play host to butterflies inspired by the
tortoiseshell in Sian Leeper's nostalgic images of unspoilt countryside with
its atmosphere of silence. |
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Three Ships Greeting Card
Designer Kerry Goodwin
ME027
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Three quirky Moorcroft ships tossed around on stormy seas with
their precious cargo. Like life, the elements can be unpredictable until a
safe harbour is reached. |
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Parasol Dance Greeting Card
Designer Kerry Goodwin
ME017
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Toadstools have played their part in the colourful history of
Moorcroft for over a hundred years. Kerry's toadstools look surreal as they
dance across a stylized landscape. |
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Wild Meadow Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons
ME018
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Reminiscing in the Moorcroft style. An image of wild flowers
growing in profusion is there to remind us of the environmental sacrifices
made today in the name of agricultural progress. |
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Proud as Peacocks Greeting Card
Designer Kerry Goodwin
ME019
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Two colourful Moorcroft peacocks watch over a clutch of eggs. |
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Stars at Dawn Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons
ME020
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: For a moment the old collector allowed his imagination to drift
back in time. From the gaping mouths of the bottle ovens, dark grey, almost
black sulphurous smoke laced with sparks billowed high into the night sky in
huge clouds, all of them rolling and heaving on their journey towards a sea
of stars spread out across the heavens. For people who are able to dream,
if by magic into images of dragonflies, birds, flowers, trees, and
butterflies.
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Snap Dragon Spell Greeting Card
Designer Kerry Goodwin
ME021
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: According to Saharan Legend, the blue-eyed dragon of the gods
fought to the death with a venomous serpent, believed to have been the devil
incarnate. Good eventually triumphed over evil and the dragon killed the snake with the final movement of its stricken body. |
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White Road to Tuscany Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME022
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: A Tuscan landscape from Moorcroft full of Cyprus trees, red-roofed houses and fields of sunflowers. Sian Leeper's Italian imagery is
accompanied by summer sunshine reflecting off a winding, white road. |
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Dasara Greeting Card
Designer Kerry Goodwin
ME023
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Decked out for a carnival, elephants are on parade at
Dasara.
Kerry Goodwin's Moorcroft elephants add a note of grandeur to the occasion. |
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Hickory Dickory Dock Greeting Card
Designer Nicola Slaney
ME024
$3.75 each
($ 3.38 each w/ Club discount)
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Mother of three and celebrated Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney, turns her
attention to one of the most famous nursery rhymes of them all. |
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Tree Doves Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons FRSA
ME001
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: From its Hidden Dreams collection, launched in the late summer of 2005,
Moorcroft highlights an outline of white doves perched high in stylised
trees. |
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Derwent Greeting Card
Designer Philip Gibson
ME002
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: The river Derwent in the Derbyshire Dales is home to both perch and roach. Derwent is a Moorcroft
design which portrays both fish in a silent, underwater world. |
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La Garenne Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons FRSA
ME003
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Classic Moorcroft imagery of trees worked into a design style suitable for the 21st century. Emma
Bossons has used for inspiration the glasswork of Frenchman, Emile Galle.
'La Garenne' is the name
of Galle's family home. |
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Hartgring Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons FRSA
ME004
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Rich colours and senuous movement fuse together to create design from everyday images of life.
Moorcroft introduces cobwebs and caterpillars into its art for the
first time. |
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Requiem for Trees Greeting Card
Designer Fraser Street
ME005
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Trees, one of the foundation themes in Moorcroft art, have been used in classic form, with rich,
sombre colours, to create a reflective mood. |
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Oyster Bay Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME006
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: The marriage of two stained glass designs by Louis Comfort Tiffany, the first showing evening light
over water, and the second, ripe purple grapes hanging from a wrought iron trellis. Both fuse together
to form a Moorcroft image of haunting beauty. |
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Ararauna Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME007
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: With a reputation for highlighting trees in ceramic art, Moorcroft introduces gracious but colourful
blue and yellow macaws hidden away in an Amazon rainforest. |
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Coral Reef Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME008
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Warm, turquoise coral seas with a myriad of colourful fish is the Moorcroft approach to Pacific
Paradise. |
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Shearwater Moon Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons FRSA
ME009
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: One of three images taken from the classic Moorcroft vase, Shearwater Moon, by Moorcroft's
youngest designer. |
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Calla Lily Greeting Card
Designer Emma Bossons FRSA
ME010
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: This design in the Art Nouveau style was first used as a personal wedding invitation before
securing deserved international acceptance as a Moorcroft collection. |
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Lamia Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
ME011
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: Poet John Keats' water nymph, Lamia, provided the senior designer at Moorcroft with inspiration
for her most successful work to date. Still made ten years after its launch as a Moorcroftr design,
Lamia helped propel Rachel Bishop to centre stage. |
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Turtle Doves Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
ME012
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: A pair of turtle doves gaze at each other high in a stylised tree. The imagery carries shades of
William Morris, an artist, poet and designer greatly admired by Rachel Bishop. |
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Siberian Iris Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME013
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: An unusual but classic Moorcroft design setting colourful Siberian Iris flowers against a trellis
frame to give the image an appearance of stained glass. |
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Islay Greeting Card
Designer Rachel Bishop
ME014
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: The senior designer at Moorcroft opens up a view, from the shore across to the mountains of
Tormisdale on the famous Inner Hebridean Island of Islay. |
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Apollo Greeting Card
Designer Sian Leeper
ME015
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: For more than a hundred years, butterflies have graced Moorcroft pottery with their
colour, beauty and
movement. The latest is Apollo, the butterfly from which the design takes its name. |
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Torridon Greeting Card
Designer Philip Gibson
ME016
$3.75 each
Occasion: Any occasion
Inside: No text
Size: 4 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches
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Background: For display, and as a means of communication, the North American Loon can be found in Torridon Lake
flapping its small wings ferociously. A Moorcroft design full of good humour and movement. |
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