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    KEEPING TRADITION ALIVE WITH ATHENA CAULEY-YU

    Apr 16, 2020 5 minutes
    Words: COLETTE EARLEY
    Photographs:
    JESSE WILD

    Athena Elizabeth Chuen Lan Cauley-Yu – or Athena to her friends – moved to Bath from north London 10 years ago to open her letterpress printing and stationery shop, Meticulous Ink, having no prior knowledge of the area, bar that it “had the optimum coupling of the right demographic and no competition”.

    Running her own business had always been the dream, but it was only after university that stationery came to the forefront of her life, when she landed a job at a private stationer in Sloane Square and was subsequently head-hunted by another company in Mayfair: “I realised I must be really good at this!” she recalls. Athena negotiated with them and got them to teach her how to use the design software, enabling her to do

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