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The Unwinding Cards

By Jackie Morris

A collection of 100 illustrated postcards taken from The Unwinding.

Art | Illustrated

152% funded

747 supporters

Final designs

Publication date: September 2023

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£20 + shipping

533 pledges

Postcard Box

An illustrated box with one hundred individual colour postcards taken from The Unwinding.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can send people your thoughts and messages.

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£100 + shipping

72 pledges

Signed Backlist Box

A collection of Jackie's books: The Silent Unwinding: And Other Dreamings, plus signed copies of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, The Wild Swans and Feather, Leaf, Bark, Stone, and an illustrated box of a hundred postcards inspired by The Unwinding.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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£40 + shipping

15 pledges

Postcard from Jackie

The illustrated box of Unwinding postcards, plus an individually addressed postcard from Jackie to whoever you'd like to receive it (we'll confirm the details via email nearer the time of publication).

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can send people your thoughts and messages.

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£30 + shipping

95 pledges

Silent Box

A copy of Jackie's book, The Silent Unwinding: And Other Dreamings, and an illustrated box of a hundred postcards inspired by The Unwinding.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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£40 + shipping

25 pledges

Swan Box

A signed copy of Jackie's book, The Wild Swans, and an illustrated box of a hundred postcards inspired by The Unwinding.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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£40 + shipping

12 pledges

Sun and Moon Box

A copy of Jackie's book, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and an illustrated box of a hundred postcards inspired by The Unwinding.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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£45 + shipping

25 pledges

Feather Leaf Box

A signed copy of Jackie's book, Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone, and an illustrated box of a hundred postcards inspired by The Unwinding.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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£95 + shipping

7 pledges

Five Boxes

Five illustrated boxes, each containing one hundred individual postcards.

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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A collection of 100 postcards features artwork and words from Jackie’s best-selling ‘pillow book’, The Unwinding & Other Dreamings.

The front of each card features one of Jackie’s paintings from the book; on the back, there is short quote, spell or poem from the book plus space for you to write, draw or paint messages which you can send to spread peace and beauty to the people you love and care about. Inspired by dreams and wishes, these cards will ease the soul and offer respite from an increasingly frantic and complex world.

Designed by Alison O’Toole, who helped Jackie create the original book and the award-winning phenomenon that is The Lost Words, this postcard box will be an elegant work of art in its own right, as useful as it is beautiful.

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FEATURED REWARD

£20 + shipping

533 pledges

Postcard Box

An illustrated box with one hundred individual colour postcards taken from The Unwinding.

PLUS:

The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can send people your thoughts and messages.

Choose this reward

FEATURED REWARD

£100 + shipping

72 pledges

Signed Backlist Box

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The back of each card has space for an address and stamp so you can post people your own thoughts and messages.

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Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales, with cats and dogs for company. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. In the same year she published The Unwinding with Unbound, and they have committed to re-issuing and re-designing her backlist beginning with Song of the Golden Hare (Sep 2020) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (Mar 2021) and The Wild Swans (Mar 2021). In June 2022 Unbound published a book of Jackie's original artwork poems in Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone.
1st April 2023 Just a quick note.....

... to say, the proofs are in of the postcards and they look good. Hopefully they will be with everyone by October, if all goes well with printing and shipping. They will be available from shops ( if the shops stock them).

Thank you everyone for making this possible. It would be fascinating to follow the stroies of some of them. Do you know what you will do with your set? Will you keep…

19th February 2023 What is a postcard

As we work towards making the postcards print ready I am trying to write about postcards, what a postcard is, and what I hope these Unwinding postcards might add to the world.

I've lived in the same house for thirty years now. In that time I have collected, accidentally, many cards. Some have been sent to me by friends, some bought at exhibitions, small reminders of beauty. One, a postcard of…

12th February 2023 Sunday morning, quiet times, and a taste of my own medicine

I am sorry it has been so long a time since I have left an update here. Much has been happening. The Accordion Books are now made, and will be in the warehouse soon, ready for dispatch. It is not often that I say this, but they are the most perfect things they could be, at this time. I am hoping Solva Woollen Mill and Seven Fables will have them up on line soon, and would suggest, now, to buy from…

2nd October 2022 100% ***************!!!!!! Thank you!

Thank you somuch to all and everyone who pledged for the cards.Over the last couple of days you have piled in and helped to push the target over 100% and beyond, which is brilliant.

I now have to write and hope soon to have some designs to show you.

Meanwhile, I will get in touch with Unbound to get the contact details for Amber B, who pledged very early on,and is the person who has won the…

2nd September 2022 63% / 315

Dear all of you who have so far signed up to these cards. John (boss man), Alison (designer), Alex (editor), had a great meeting about the cards. As ever Alison came up with a few brilliant ideas, including having a kind of 'contact' sheet with the box so you can keep track of where and when and who you send cards to. Brilliant! She also talked about her and a friend, who some time ago bought a box…

21st August 2022 246

At the time of writing this there are 246 people willing to invest in the idea of a box of postcards. I wanted to write to you all to thank you for this.

The idea we have is to make a box of 100 postcards. With Alison's help they will be beautiful, but hopefully not to beautiful to send. Most will have pictures, but seven with have new and very short stories. There may also be one or two that…
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