“Award-winning Ladyfingers Letterpress is a Queer and Trans-owned-and-operated stationery and gift brand based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded by designer+printmaker couple, Arley Torsone and Morgan Calderini.
We launched our business in 2010 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island when our own wedding invitation went viral and were faced with a wedding industry that wasn’t prepared to work with a couple of creative Queers. While we suffered through both the aesthetic and LGBTQ+ injustices at the time, we realized there was a need for affirming stationers who gave a damn.
We quickly became very busy producing one-of-a-kind wedding invitations for the most creative and amazing clients. After the weddings were over, our clients came back and asked if we had any letterpress cards to celebrate holidays, birthdays, etc. As a result, we decided to launch a humble line of greeting cards at the 2013 National Stationery Show and to our surprise, the line took off and we now sell hundreds of products in over 1,000 stores around the world.
We believe that you don’t have to be a large company to make a big impact. We take pride in making things by hand, locally, and sustainably. If it’s not made in our shop, you better believe we’ve done our best to research other environmentally-friendly and civically-minded businesses to collaborate with.”
