Sterling Notions are a small business located in bonny Scotland.
Our mission is to make meaningful, affordable products that encourage imagination and conversation.
All of our Myrioramas are hand-illustrated and produced by us, Susan Krueger (nee Lockhart) and Neil Clark, in our home studio using locally sourced materials and suppliers. Give yourself or someone you love, permission to ‘unplug’ from the digital world with this unique pocket-sized curio, designed for back-to-basics relaxation and creativity.
View Our CollectionEach set features a themed landscape over 12 cards that can be sensibly arranged in almost half a billion ways, with an accompanying leaflet and thoughtful prompts on the back of each card to encourage storytelling and inspire imagination. Lay the cards side by side to create a landscape that is pleasing or meaningful to you. Add and re-arrange cards to evoke memories and stir imaginations of events or places you have been to or would like to visit. Create a story around your personal selection and sorting of the cards.
Our TIN-TALES are inspired by a concept that originated in France in the early 19th century and was introduced to the UK by John Heaviside Clark. In 1824 he designed a set of illustrated cards that could be used to produce fantastic scenes and stories, which he called a ‘Myriorama’. The word Myriorama comes from the Greek word ‘myrias’ (meaning ‘multitude’ or ‘myriad’) combined with ‘orama’ (meaning ‘view’ or ‘scene).
TIN-TALES are compact and sturdy – throw them in a bag, send them abroad, build a collection
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