QUILL & CINDER PRESS
Boise, Idaho

Books made slowly,
and the patterns inside them.

Quill & Cinder Press works with illustrators, textile designers and naturalists on books that are useful as well as handsome: pattern books you can print from, field guides you can carry, and art books that keep the notes behind the work.

Digital editions only. Files are delivered by email, from our own host, and stay available to the people who bought them.

Boise, Idaho

What we publish

Every title is commissioned, edited and proofed by us before it is released. We choose subjects we can test on paper, and we keep the finished files in formats that behave properly in a print shop as well as on a screen.

Pattern collections

Motifs drawn for screen printing, embroidery and block carving, supplied as layered vector files with a swatch sheet you can print at home.

Art books

Fixed-layout editions that gather a series of illustrations together with the artist's process notes, sketches and captions.

Field guides

Short illustrated guides written for walkers, gardeners and foragers rather than for specialists, with a glossary and clear captions.

How an order works

Choose a title from the catalogue and pay through our storefront. The download link and licence key arrive by email; if a link fails or a file is damaged, write to us and we will send a fresh copy. We fix our own files rather than sending you to a third party.

Where we are

Our editorial office is in the Mercantile Building in downtown Boise, Idaho. We are a publishing house rather than a shop: visits are by appointment and orders are handled online.

Every title on this site is our own work. We do not resell third-party licences or act as a marketplace.