Coaster Set • Strawberry Lemonade

Double Palm.  Double the fun.  What can I say?  You take a simple print and flip it and print it again and you move from something classic, to something a little bit off kilter and fun.  It’s a fun design to experiment with with colors, because they blend together in such a unique and playful way.

Hibiscus.  One look at Jana’s Instagram account and it is clear that the Hibiscus is her favorite flower.  Many people think Seaflower, which is in our logo, is a hibiscus, but they are wrong.  One of the reasons Jana loves hibiscuses are for their sometimes intricate edges, and in this design it’s that feature she tried to highlight. Each hibiscus is different from the next and she is always inspired by their uniqueness and complexity. Who doesn’t love hibiscuses? This design is almost a requirement for the Jana Lam Collection of prints. 

Jungle City. One prevalent signature stylistic element in Jana Lam prints is the combining of organic details that are nature-based (real or not real) with hard-edged rigid shapes.  Where that aesthetic originated, Jana doesn’t know, but she likes the synergy or energy of the combination of the organic and the inorganic; how they fit or move together in each piece. Jungle City is the perfect example of that synergy.  It was created solely with the desire to put the leaf elements together with the skinny, small rectangles.  It was a vision Jana saw in her head; the fun juxtaposition of the two disparate things into one cohesive piece.  The name Jungle City is meant to represent that duality too.

Seaflower.  Seaflower is THE ORIGINAL Jana Lam print. Seaflower was the first print Jana made when she moved home to Hawaii from San Francisco in 2010, which was the same year she started her company.  It is the print from which everything began. In essence Seaflower was her guinea pig while she figured out how to set up her own studio and screen print on her own. To make this design she used large opaque pens (opaque pens are notoriously leaky and hard to deal with and once you make a mistake there is no going back) and drew directly on a huge piece of tracing paper.  Her aim was just to create a simple design that she could use to test out on her screens because she didn’t want to have to deal with getting film made at that point.  So she had to draw very large to cover the big piece of trace. The rather giant flowers of the current print have been reworked a bit but they were actually drawn at almost same size that they are now.  So in essence, the print remains pretty similar to the original and is unlike almost all of the other prints in the catalog, which were drawn at a smaller scale and done in pencil and then traced over in Micron pen. Funny enough, even though she did a lot of research, drawing, and test-printing, it was never with the idea to make her own products out of the fabric.  She didn’t go into screen-printing with the intention to start a business.  But she did, and Seaflower, which in the beginning was one of only a few prints (and the standout) that she used for her products, came to encapsulate and define the entire brand.  Jana immediately realized that it was the strongest and most singular design of her small collection of prints, and so she used one of the flowers as her trademark and put it in her logo.  And that in short, is why Seaflower is the classic, quintessential print of the brand, and still among the most popular designs, (if not the most popular design) in the entire catalog. 

Fabric: 
All Jana Lam Handmade in Hawaii textiles are silk-screened by hand on cotton fabrics with water-based inks. Coaster sets are made from a 100% cotton in a variety of different fabric styles, and reinforced with fleece interfacing to give the fabric some shape with a soft feel.

Care:
The #janalamfam recommends spot cleaning when smaller spots show up. We usually use Shout Wipes for that, but Jana has used tide pens in the past. Make sure if there is a white top print to be a little more gentle on rubbing spots out. Since the ink sits on top of the fabric a bit more than other colors, there is a chance of the ink rubbing off and getting on other parts of the fabric. 

But, you can put your Jana Lam's in the wash. We usually use a hand wash cycle and lay flat to dry. After it's dried, it is always good to give it a little bit of an iron. We use 100% cotton fabric, so it may shrink in the dryer, but will definitely stand up to ironing.