Ashmolean: A Japanese Garden Greeting Card Pack

Sold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled greeting cards, blank inside with a gold envelope. Plastic free, the envelope is slipped inside the card, sealed with an easy-peel sticky tab. The 6 cards are packed in a recyclable plastic bag. Themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and gift stationery, our cards and envelopes are printed on FSC-certified paper. This example features an Embroidered Hanging with Peacock from the Ashmolean Museum.

The peacock was emblematic not of glory but of compassion and care, and so it would appear to be in this intricate hanging. What we might expect to be its show-stealing splendour is almost upstaged by the pure-white peonies, lilies and roses all around. The eyes of its furled-up tail, though beautiful, blend into the background as though they were another flower.