Person holding a circular color palette against an outdoor sky background.

Blueprints 2026

We have been watching blue for a long time.

In cloth. In dye. In the thin edge of light on water. In the deepening sky as the day turns.

It kept turning up in our design sketches, swatches, moodboards and notebooks, until it stopped being a collection of ideas and memories and became our theme for the year.

Blueprints is our year of blue

A season of sea and sky, salt air and dye vats, cyanotype shadows and ticking stripes. A lake under scattered clouds, a sweep of wildflowers.

2026 is a year for noticing.

It begins with a simple idea.

That we can come together under one sky.

Wherever you are, the sky is always there, changing by the hour, giving us weather, light, and the feeling of possibilities. Sometimes pale, sometimes heavy, sometimes rinsed clean.

Blueprints is our invitation step outside and look up, to make a small ritual of attention. To wear blue that is lived in, and to hold blue as the anchor for being this year.

What Blueprints means

Blueprints will thread through everything we make and share in 2026.

You will see it in the clothing we create and the artists we celebrate:

  • French ticking blues and work stripes, practical and beautiful

  • Natural dye stories, from woad and indigo to slow, patient colour

  • Cyanotype inspired prints and sun made shadows

  • Blue waters: sea, lakes, rivers and rain pools, the moving blue in the landscape

  • Field of blue, flax and cornflowers, tall delphinium spires and bee-covered borage.

  • Folk notes that feel romantic and nature-led, stories carried on weather and water

Handwritten signature of the name "Julia."

Designer & Maker

A young girl stands in a shallow river holding a round mirror, facing away from the camera, with houses, trees, and a cloudy sky in the background.
A moon rising over a calm ocean under a dark blue sky.
X-ray image of three coral-like structures with intricate branching patterns, set against a solid blue background.
Close-up photo of peeling blue paint on wooden surface, revealing the wood underneath.
Blue tie-dye fabrics hanging to dry on a clothesline outdoors, with a partly cloudy sky overhead.
A traditional tannery with numerous circular vats filled with various colored liquids used for processing animal hides, with workers tending to the vats.

The Cyanometer Almanac

A cyanometer is a historical instrument for measuring the intensity of the sky’s blue. It is beautifully simple: a circle of graduated blue squares that you compare to the sky, to find the closest match. It turns the act of looking up into a gentle record.

We are making the cyanometer part of Blueprints in two ways:

  1. A cyanometer with every order.

  2. Every week we will share a Cyanometer Almanac entry. You are warmly invited to take part.

Every online order will include a physical cyanometer printed on card. Keep it by the window, take it on walks, tuck it into a book, pin it to the studio wall.

Join in each week

Every week we will share a Cyanometer Almanac entry. You are warmly invited to take part.

Here is how:

  1. Step outside, or stand at an open window.

  2. Hold up your cyanometer and match the sky to the nearest shade.

  3. Make a note of the number, the time, and the place.

  4. Add one line of observation: cloud, wind, air clarity, bird song, water, mood.

  5. Share it if you wish (tag us on Instagram @an_acre_of_land), or keep it for yourself.

It doesn’t have to be perfect. At its heart this is about a small, shared practice.

A community of people looking up from different fields, streets, shorelines and kitchen doors, meeting under the same sky.

A woman with long blond hair, wearing a beige knitted beret and a light-colored cardigan, is smiling and winking at the camera while holding a round mirror in front of her face. She is standing outdoors beside a large tree with a textured bark, with a grassy field and blue sky in the background.

Spring Summer 2026 Collection

If you would like to be first to hear when the collection is live, and to receive our Blueprints notes as they unfold, sign up below.

A woman in a white vintage dress standing outdoors on grass, holding a large circular color swatch with shades of blue, gray, and black.

A note on community

Blueprints is shaped by people. By those who create, those who wear our clothes, those who notice the changing hues and tones of the natural world.

If you join in with the cyanometer each week, you become part of the story. A small constellation of readings. A shared archive of blue.

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Welcome to Blueprints.

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Join our year of blue and add your sky reading with a cyanometer each sunday
Join our year of blue and add your sky reading with a cyanometer each sunday

In 2026, we’re turning the cyanometer into a shared practice. A small Sunday ritual, wherever you live. A way to gather a community around noticing, rather than noise.

Every Sunday, we’ll share our cyanometer reading on Instagram and invite you to share yours too. Some of us will be under wide country skies, some in town, some by the coast, some in a field, some at a kitchen window. Same sky, different blues.

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