Bits & Botany is a small, family-run studio based in Cape Town, South Africa.
We work with a carefully curated collection of vintage botanical and natural history illustrations that include fruit, vegetables, animals, skeletal studies, and historical plates. These drawings, some over a century old, are selected for their detail, character, and enduring beauty, then prepared and reproduced with great care for modern printing.
Every print is produced locally and can be paired with simple, handmade frames crafted in our own woodshop. Using honest materials and traditional joinery, we focus on understated designs that allow the artwork to speak for itself. Each frame is made by hand by a small team - father and sons - resulting in pieces that feel considered rather than mass-produced.
Bits & Botany was established in 2019 and began it's retail life at the Elgin Railway Market, where we continue to trade under the same name. What started as a market stall has grown slowly and intentionally into a broader collection of printed works and objects, rooted in a shared love for botany, craftsmanship, and the quiet beauty of archival illustration.
All of our work is made in small batches, with attention paid to scale, proportion, and finish.
Bits & Botany is about slowing down, collecting, making, and sharing objects that celebrate the natural world and the craft of those who first documented it.
