Some books end. This one keeps on growing.

Wildflowers spill out of an open book in this bookish wall art, a quiet meeting of the reading life and the garden. Made to order on thick matte paper, Floral Book Bloom brings a little spring to any shelf-lined room and makes a gentle gift for people who measure their year in finished novels.

The design: a meadow rooted in the pages

At the bottom of the print an open hardback lies facing you, its pages fanned out and curling softly at the corners, with warm tan page ends and a dark rounded spine at the center. From the middle of the spread rises a thick tuft of green grassy stems and feathery leaves, as though the story had quietly taken root.

Above the stems opens a loose bouquet of daisy- and aster-like wildflowers: purple and lavender petals, pink and coral-red daisies and golden-yellow blooms with orange centers, with small closed buds still waiting on slender stalks. Fine dark outlines and soft colored-pencil shading give it the feel of a botanical sketch from an old field notebook.

Behind it all sits aged cream paper, washed with tea-stain marks at the top corners and along the bottom edge for a vintage-paper look. No words appear anywhere and the pages are left blank, so the flowers do the talking: a good book never really closes, it just keeps putting out new shoots in the reader.

Matte paper in sixteen sizes, portrait or square

• Portrait sizes: 5″×7″ (12.7 × 17.8 cm), 8″×10″ (20.3 × 25.4 cm), 11″×14″ (27.9 × 35.6 cm), 12″×16″ (30.5 × 40.6 cm), 12″×18″ (30.5 × 45.7 cm), 16″×20″ (40.6 × 50.8 cm), 18″×24″ (45.7 × 61.0 cm), 20″×30″ (50.8 × 76.2 cm) and 24″×36″ (61.0 × 91.4 cm), plus A2 (16.5″×23.3″, 41.9 × 59.2 cm) and A1 (23.3″×33.1″, 59.2 × 84.1 cm)
• Square sizes: 10″×10″ (25.4 × 25.4 cm), 12″×12″ (30.5 × 30.5 cm), 14″×14″ (35.6 × 35.6 cm), 16″×16″ (40.6 × 40.6 cm) and 18″×18″ (45.7 × 45.7 cm)
• A heavy 189 g/m² sheet, 10.3 mil thick, with a matte surface that suits the delicate pencil-style outlines
• Rated at 94% opacity and 104% ISO brightness: your wall paint stays hidden behind the paper, and the petals print clean and clear
• Paper from Japan, printed after you order and sent unframed, ready for a frame you choose

Who it's for

Readers who keep a garden, gardeners who keep a reading list, book club regulars, librarians, English teachers and anyone whose favorite chair sits beside a window full of plants. It brings a calm, springlike note to a reading nook, a home library, a bedroom or a study. Give it for a birthday, Mother's Day, a housewarming or a retirement after years spent among books.

Quick answers

Which flowers are in the bouquet?

A loose mix of daisy- and aster-like wildflowers with a few closed buds, not one named species. It reads as a meadow bunch picked on a walk rather than a labeled botanical chart.

Are the stains on the paper real?

No. The tea-stain marks at the corners and along the bottom are part of the printed picture itself, so every sheet arrives clean and new with the same aged look built in.

How does the art fit a square print?

The book and the bouquet sit a little smaller in the squares, with wider margins of the aged-paper background at each side. Nothing important is trimmed, so the flowers and the spine stay whole.

Which size suits a reading corner?

Beside a reading chair or on a shelf, an 8″×10″ (20.3 × 25.4 cm) or 11″×14″ (27.9 × 35.6 cm) fits. Over a sofa or a wall of shelves, 18″×24″ (45.7 × 61.0 cm) or A1 (23.3″×33.1″, 59.2 × 84.1 cm) shows the blooms from across the room.

Shipping and returns

Free US shipping. US delivery usually 5–12 business days. Easy 30-day returns.

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