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When you enter the world of e-commerce and begin talking with various consultants the conversation eventually leads to dropping the name of “a guy” they have overseas who can mass produce your product with shoddy materials and psuedo craftsmanship, while guaranteeing great margins. There is a prolific market for cheap crap, as non discerning consumers push for more and more. While business can be built within this paradigm, it’s not building with impunity.

 At Pad & Quill, we don’t merely want to shift the paradigm, we mean to blow it up. We don’t think the market needs another purveyor of cheap crap. Quite the opposite. We think there are folks out there who have the same sense of awe as we do when they behold a beautiful thing. Who marvel at how a handful of seeds can become a majestic stand of Baltic Birch, that are then transformed, in artisan hands, into a gorgeous, organic product. There are friends who share our sense of adventure and love to have a bag they pull from their closet with 15 years of travel written upon it, and miles to go. Pad and Quill products will never resemble a trinket pulled from a fast food bag. Our products will excite your senses, carry your dreams and inspire your sense of authenticity.

 At Pad & Quill we don’t have “a guy”. We have a code we call our litmus test. Our promise:

 Is the product largely constructed by hand, by passionate, well trained craftsmen?

 Have we created something that our discriminating friends would be proud to own?

 Have we included an innovative approach to the function?

 Is our product organic, sourced from nature and in keeping with good stewardship of our environment?

 In consideration of our manufacturing process, would we be able to sit across the table from an employees parent and tell them I am proud of the company of which your son or daughter is a part?

 Have we maintained our dedication to preserving what is valuable from the past while merging with the remarkable technology of the present?

 Have we left anything on the table in our design process? Have we refused to settle for “good enough”? Did we exhaust ourselves in pursuit excellence?

 When we’ve passed our litmus test, when we’ve honored our code, then a product can be burnished with the Pad & Quill Ampersand.

Brian and Kari (Mr & Mrs PQ)