rainingmoon

rainingmoon is the studio practice of Erin Price - a stationery atelier that does its best work after the rest of the world has gone quiet. Based in Yakima, WA, the studio produces small-batch journals, ritual prompt decks, and correspondence cards for people who keep different hours.

The work

Every piece in the collection is designed, cut, bound, and packed by one pair of hands. The journals are sewn on manual bookbinding equipment. The prompt decks are letterpressed one color at a time. The note cards are foil-stamped in small runs - rarely more than fifty sets at once.

This is not a production line. Nothing is made to sit in a warehouse. When a run sells out, the design sleeps until Erin decides to bring it back - sometimes the next season, sometimes never.

Why the dark

The aesthetic is not ornamental. The deep tones, the moon phases, the ritual language - they point at something real. These are tools for people who do their reflecting in the dark: the ones who process at 2 AM, who keep a notebook by the bed, who light a candle when they need to think clearly. The darkness is not the atmosphere. It is the condition the work is made for.

The name

"rainingmoon" comes from a weather phenomenon in the Yakima Valley where the autumn moon rises through a veil of rain - visible, but blurred at the edges. It is the kind of light you can only see when the conditions are exactly wrong. The name stuck.