Pigeon Atelier Letterpress
Community-listedMercier, Quebec · Own site
Small businessA product line hit
Marie-Orphée Duval and Valérie Duquette hand-feed an 1892 Chandler & Price platen press in a Mercier workshop southwest of Montreal, printing 52-page dot-grid sewn notebooks, spiral notebooks and undated planners, gold-stamped 8 x 10 botanical posters like "Affiche – Botanique Citrons", greeting cards and bookmarks, alongside small-batch soy-wax candles hand-poured into ceramic, concrete and glass vessels and a small run of pottery.
Bound notebooks, diaries and letter pads are HTS 4820.10.20, printed pictures and designs are HTS 4911.91.40 and candles are HTS 3406.00.00, all three on the CBP Section 338 list at a 50% additional US duty since August 22, 2026. Pigeon ships south — its shipping page prices "Livraison aux É.-U. (sur le continent seulement)" at $15 to $50 CAD a parcel and the storefront carries a $USD toggle — so an American buying the $11.50 Botanica notebook, the $25 botanical poster or a hand-poured soy-wax candle now pays half again in duty at the border. The studio has published nothing about the measure. · content.govdelivery.com, Aug 22, 2026