01 / Process
How a Vonderly card is made.
01.
Design and paper prep
Colors selected from our palette. Strips of color paper cut to width. The design is mapped onto the 300gsm card base with light guideline marks that the quilling will cover entirely.
02.
Artisans build the elements
Each artisan owns one element type. Our floral specialist coils petals. Our bird specialist fans wings. Our border specialist scrolls leaf borders. Two to three collaborate per card depending on design complexity.
03.
Assembly and quality check
Elements glued in place with water-based adhesive, dried under press, inspected against the master sample. Anything below standard is rebuilt, not shipped.
90 to 120 minutes per card on average. Two to three artisans collaborate, every card.
02 / Occasions
Cards by occasion.
Birthday
14 items
Wedding
4 items
Anniversary
5 items
Congratulations
0 items
Graduation
0 items
Thank you
12 items
Sympathy
0 items
Just because
4 items
The Dancer: Handmade Quilled Bharatanatyam Dance Greeting Card
Handmade Quilled Sunflowers Art | Eco-friendly Elegant Floral Wall Décor
Handmade Quilled Cupcake Card | Eco-friendly Greeting Card for Birthdays
Handmade Quilled Tropical Card | Eco-friendly Greeting Card for Summer & Travel Lovers
04 / Studio
From a studio in Jaffna.
Vonderly is made in Jaffna, on the northern tip of Sri Lanka. The studio is led by Kirushanthi and Shobethan, and the cards are made by a team of women who live and work in the city.
The multi-artisan model exists because quality cannot be faked at this price. A single artisan, however gifted, cannot build every element of a card to the same standard. So each one specializes, and two to three hands meet on every card.
2-3
~120 mins
All women
Jaffna · 3 Min
Inside the studio
9.6800° N · 80.0231° E
05 / The Co-founder
We could print these in minutes. We choose not to. Every Vonderly card passes through two or three pairs of hands and most of two hours before it is finished, because that is what it takes to make something a person keeps rather than reads once. We would rather make fewer cards that matter than more that do not.
S.Kirushanthi
Co-founder and Creative Lead
⎯⎯ The Vonderly Idea ⎯⎯
Made to be felt.
06 / Aesthetics
Cards by aesthetic.
Floral
Botanicals, in paper
Botanical
Leaves, scrolls, vines
Birds
Wings, fanned
Tamil Heritage
Motifs from Jaffna
09 / Questions
Things people ask.
01. Are these cards really handmade?
Yes, every card is hand quilled in our Jaffna studio.
Each visible quilled element is shaped, glued and placed by hand. Some cards carry a small printed wish on the cover top, which we always state on the product page.
02. What makes a Vonderly card different from a store-bought one?
A store-bought card is printed in the thousands. A Vonderly card is quilled by hand.
Each one takes 90 to 120 minutes, made by a small team of women in Jaffna, and arrives as something the recipient can frame and keep.
03. What am I paying for?
Time and hands.
Two or three artisans spend close to two hours shaping each card, in a women-led studio paid above the local minimum wage. You are paying for the hours and the people, not a print run.
04. Will it survice the mail?
Yes. Each card is built on heavy 300gsm stock and ships in a rigid kraft box.
The box guards against bending in transit. Damage on arrival is rare, and if it happens we replace the card at no cost.
05. How long does shipping take?
Within the US, standard shipping is 10 to 14 working days, express is 5 to 7.
Every card ships from our studio in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
06. Who makes Vonderly cards?
A team of women in Jaffna, on the northern tip of Sri Lanka.
The studio is led by founders Kirushanthi and Shobethan, and the team is paid above the local minimum wage. Each artisan specializes in one kind of element, so two or three hands meet on every card.
