Introducing the URBrainy letterlocking letter paper!

Check out our brand new ingenious letter papers! We have been inspired by a technique called ‘letterlocking’ and have produced a number of letter papers complete with images of cats, dogs, butterflies, dinosaurs, sea creatures, farm animals, the Maths Rats and of course Tommy Turtle.

Before the 1840s most people who wrote letters did not send them in envelopes. They took their flat sheet of paper, wrote their letter on it and then manipulated the paper with ingenious combinations of folds, tucks, slits, sealing wax etc. so that it became its own envelope. This is called ‘letterlocking’. Some people used very simple folds for their letterlocking while others, for example Mary Queen of Scots, used much more complicated techniques for maximum security.

Inspired by this, the URBrainy design team have created clever letterlocking letter papers specially for children to use. There are full colour versions as well as black and white ones which can be coloured in. Children can use our letter papers to send letters, write notes to their friends or even use as invitations to parties.

Each letter paper has two sides and needs to be printed double sided. There are fold lines which are numbered in the order they need folding. We have pictorial instructions in a separate document which is free to download and does not count towards one of your print credits.