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Aroha Love Hand-Printed Gift Card

$8.00 GST incl.

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Lighting the Way Encounter 1 Waka Huia

$750.00 GST incl.

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Pop Art Bottles Print in 3 Colours

$129.95 GST incl.

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Pop Art Bottles Print in 4 Colours

$129.95 GST incl.

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Mystical Ruru Print

$69.00 $74.75Price range: $69.00 through $74.75

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Artist Journal Landscape Hard Cover

$34.00 GST incl.

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Kitchen Essentials – Kitchen Towel – Collect Moments Red

$23.00 GST incl.

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Latest Happenings

Building relationships with Wholesale Buyers

Engaging with our client companies and selling at wholesale prices offers Ruru Artisans a powerful strategy for growth and sustainability.

Ruru Artisans at the Old Packhouse Market in Kerikeri

Come see Ruru Artisans at The Old Packhouse Market in Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, which represents the vibrant spirit of New Zealand's artisan community. This bustling market, held every Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday offers a unique blend of fresh produce, local crafts, and a vibrant atmosphere that attracts both locals and tourists alike.

How to Support Local Artisans at the Artisans Affair 2024

How to Support Local Artisans. We are very pleased to be at the Artisan Affair happening 6-7 September, 2024 at the Te Ahu Centre in Kaitaia. We are going to be there with a range of beautiful products, many of which are not listed on our site. We've been busy preparing to get things underway and will have EFTPOS available.

Handmade Notebooks: The Perfect Gift That Tells a Story

Introducing local artist, Michelle Newman

Michelle Newman is a self taught who lives in Doubtless Bay. Her artwork is inspired by nature and she uses various mediums to create it. She sells her artwork through her online store, Michellezart Studio. Some of the products she sells include greeting cards, watercolors, and personalized letters. She also offers custom artwork commissions. Newman finds joy in creating art and wants to share that joy with others.

Hand painting onto prints

Sometimes we opt to add some colour to pieces by hand. In this case, the colours added are Windsor and Newton inks and highlight a small part of the pictures.

How we crease gift cards

We crease gift cards using the Squintani Model 5 treadle press. Each card is individually creased by hand and as you see in this short video, it is a quiet meditative process. Enjoy the video and take a little time out with the gentle roll, click, crunk of the treadle press.

Printing the Tui and Duck pieces

As we have been sorting out various mechanical and technical issues, printing the bird series has been delayed for seems like forever. But this week, we have take off! The first off the press are the large Tui and Duck prints, which sport one colour so far.

A little bit of fun

Reworking Existing Iconic Children’s Book

The Boy and the Taniwha: This reworked book design was exhibited at the Bodleian Library at the Oxford University, United Kingdom, and is catalogued in the feature publication Heroic Works, for the Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2017, edited by Jeanette Koch.