Bitter Remedy

I was inspired by how much nature can both heal and poison us, and by the way herbal knowledge quietly runs through the history of medicine. So I created a pattern layering the subtle silhouette of ivy with a fine line drawing of rauvolfia serpentina, a root once used to calm the mind. It reminds me of the illustrated plates in old natural history albums, where scientists catalogued plants with the same quiet attention regardless of what they revealed. I made it to feel like a cabinet full of interesting, quietly decorative scientific specimens.

I created it with cozy home interiors in mind: bedding, cushions, kitchen fabrics, wallpaper and calm interior accents.

Seamless botanical pattern layering pale ivy silhouettes with fine line drawings of rauvolfia flowers and berries in dusty peach, on a cream and warm gray background - Bitter Remedy collection hero print.
Scaled-down variation of the Bitter Remedy hero print - fine line rauvolfia flowers and peach berries scattered more loosely across a cream background.
Seamless botanical pattern in dark sage green with ivory rauvolfia line drawings and pale berries, ivy silhouettes layered softly beneath - Bitter Remedy collection coordinate in deep sage.
Seamless silhouette pattern of ivy leaves in tonal gray - a quiet monochrome coordinate for the Bitter Remedy collection.
Ivy silhouette pattern in muted gray-green, a larger-scale tonal coordinate for the Bitter Remedy collection.
Small-scale abstract coordinate for the Bitter Remedy collection - sage green and peach dots and leaf fragments scattered on a cream background.
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