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Article: Art for the Masses; Whitinsville artist joins with local printing firm.(BUSINESS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- August 14, 2007
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Byline: Lisa Eckelbecker
WEST BOYLSTON - Artist Maria Thomas' stationery is so painstakingly crafted that it can take two months for her to prepare a batch of wedding invitations for a bride.
Not that her customers seem to mind. Last year, Brides magazine named the Pendragon Ink Ltd. owner to a national "dream team" of wedding services purveyors. Her appearance at the National Stationery Show in May in New York City had visitors lined up for samples of her 18th-century inspired calligraphy, leaving her bent over a table and subsisting on chips and soda.
But under a new collaboration with privately held printer Checkerboard Ltd., Ms. Thomas' ...