Foolscap

Foolscap is a small studio in Moira, Goa. Nitya and Parth publish from here: books, kits, and objects that do not need a charger. Weavsy is...
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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Sep 22

Ten-count. Four plants. Cork.

Cheli, Nemor, Poppy, Papaver. Four inches each. Charts in the box. Hands busy for an evening.


$117, shipped from Goa.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Sep 8

Four wings. One quiet table.

Fli, Moth, Parrot, Toucan. Four small plates, cork at the back, charts in the box. You finish them in an evening and put the phone back when you're done.


$140, shipped from Goa.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Sep 7

Four plates before the phone comes back

You put the phone in another room and sit with four small plates. By the end of the evening they are finished — cork at the back, charts in the box, four things you can hold.


$117, shipped from Goa.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Sep 4

The loom. The book. One evening.

A frame loom and the Knot Book print in the same box. You warp it. You read it. The phone stays in the other room.


$75, shipped from Goa.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Sep 3

Aida, cork, a needle. Cheli.

The box holds 10-count Aida, cork for the back, a colour chart and a black-and-white one, and Cheli. Four inches when you finish it. The Knot Book print is in the box. We ship from Goa.


$39.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Sep 2

A herbarium you stitch

Cheli, Nemor, Poppy, Papaver. Four inches each, 10-count Aida, cork at the back. Colour chart and a black-and-white one in the box.


$117, shipped from Goa.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Aug 31

You hang this. The phone stays in the other room.

Four specimens. Moth, parrot, toucan, fli. Each is four inches. You finish them. Then they hang.


The box ships from Goa. $140.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Aug 31

She did not invent the computer. She named the metaphor.

Ada Lovelace, 1843: the loom already knew how to follow a list of instructions. She did not invent the computer. She named the metaphor.


The Knot Book is a short zine. Most people finish it in an evening. $16.


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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Aug 31

The first program you can fail with your hands

The first line will be ugly. That is the point. A draft is if-this-then-that, in yarn, and you can fail it before dinner.


The Knot Book, $16:


The loom with the book, $75:

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foolscapProfile picture@foolscap·Aug 31

This is an array you can pull

Ten white threads. Addressable rows. You can pull one.


A draft is a program you fail with your hands. The Knot Book is $16.