Travel by Steam
Collect Original Art and Give Children Books.
As if chain maille isn’t intricate enough, Crescent Maille introduces Cloudery, a shop for original pen & ink doodles of the most detailed sort — free-form yet focused. Each drawing, with lines as thin as .2mm (and a maximum pen point of .5mm), takes hours to create. No pencil, no eraser. Unplanned, each drawing goes where the pens take it.
One mission of Cloudery is “Art for Books.” From each sale of a drawing at Cloudery, a donation will be made to First Book. The donation provides brand new books to children who have never had the opportunity to own books before. From their website (www.firstbook.org):
First Book is a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. We provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs.
First Book has the highest rating (four stars) from Charity Navigator.
You can see the all the drawings—past, present, future—at the Cloudery blog.
Bird in Tree, Dreaming
Spiderling Cloud
