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Evolution and Revolution! (1885) by W. N. Bryant.

Source: SMU Central University Libraries / Flickr: The Commons

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Free zine links videos to help you learn how long to spin your inks for ~fancy~ gradients #DHmakes #Letterpress Zine at zinebakery.com/homemade/rainbowrolls! 🍞🌈🎨

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Ajouts à ma petite boutique, deux cartons imprimés en typo + linogravure.

Citation d'André Suarès :
La cité s'écroule, la ville disparaît et le livre demeure.
10€ + port

Citation de Christiane Rochefort :
Il y a un moment où il faut sortir les couteaux.
10€ + port (100% des bénéfices, soit 8€ par carton, au profit du planning familial 29)

Peu d'exemplaires restant, chaque carton a été tiré à 40 ex.
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#imprimerie #letterpress

Seeing a fellow appreciator of Big Wood Type led me to Kennedy Adams' excellent printing, typography, fabrication work—including fabricating her own huge wood type for her exhibit on legibility & recognition via a dyslexic lens: kennedyacreative.com/upside-down-... #letterpress

More #letterpress process: white dashes of ink on top of gradient on ink slab w/palette knife; pick up w/roller, roll onto type. 3rd photo=repeating for a 2nd print w/o renewing ink dashed nor cleaning type first=more muted effect. #DHmakes

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Spotted in my RSS feeds: Heikki’s Garden of Flowers. From the About page: “Heikki’s Garden of Flowers aims to be a comprehensive catalogue of historical and contemporary pictorial letterpress works…. The archive has more than 2500 images as of 2026. But, for a more focused set of 50, you can find my favourites in the Heikki’s favourites collection.”

press run

She'll choose two cans of color, exploring them
for the soft caramel of good set, putting aside
flakes of air-dried dross with her inking knife.

One, a can of orange stuff, she's been given
for imprinting brew-pub six-packs; the knife
scoops up a dollop and ferries it to the disk.

The other is your standard black; the smallest
bubble of this she'll add to the orange, and stir,
in hope of a decent brown. A heave of the flywheel

begins the inking-up: the disk turns a bit
with each revolution of the wheel, and the ink,
smashed paper-thin by rollers, spreads evenly

across its face, painting it, painting the rollers,
as her foot pumps the treadle, and her face
admires, as it always does, the view from here,

of garden dressed in straw, of mountain air
training the rainbow windsock northward,
of Jasper Mountain becoming a hill of gold

in sunset. Gathering the furniture, reglets,
quoins, quoin key, and the new magnesium cut,
she locks the chase, fastens it to the bed, shoves

the wheel, this time with impression lever on,
and lets the cut kiss the clean tympan paper
with an image. Around this image she sets quads,

tympan bales, and bits of makeready, and prepares
stacked sheets to be fed from the feed board
into the maw of the Chandler & Price, known

to pressmen for a hundred fifty years as the
Hand Snapper. She reaches for the radio's knob.
Rachmaninoff? Damn. Oh, well, turn

wheel, pump treadle, lean forward, lean back,
click-click, click CLACK, work-and-turn,
deliver the finished sheets to the delivery board,

admire mountain, lean forward, lean back.
Rachmaninoff gives way to Mozart's glorious
forty-first symphony, and Jasper Mountain

gives way to night, and in the black window
a woman in her fifties, leaning forward,
leaning back, critically appraising the music,

the printing, herself, click-click, click CLACK,
sour bones and a game leg but a job well done
and the Mozart's Mozart. Four hundred sheets

later, and well into Bruch, the wheel stops,
the chase is unclamped, the disk and rollers
washed up, and rags canned. The reflected

window-crone lifts a sheet of work
to the light, examines impression and matter.
Reaching to silence Bruch, she sees the stilling

silhouette of the rainbow windsock:
it waits for dawn; for fair and lofting wind.


-- shonin #poetry #letterpress

This was a thing I used to do.

Watch a 1977 cinema ad be reprinted

#GregHildebrandt #StarWars #FanthaTracks #starwarsfan #letterpress #printmaking #thepressroom #hildebrandt 

Go retro with this reprinted 1977 cinema ad.

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Suite à une erreur de stocks, je suis obligé de refaire un modèle d'impression pour une commande et donc de ressortir le matériel typo !

C'est artisanal!

#Letterpress #Imprimerie #Typographie #Antifa

#letterpress

Slight imperfections in compositional alignment…detail of a specimen page from the 1887 _Palmer & Rey’s third revised specimen book and price list of printing material_ showing Wm H Page Wood Type Co border No 193 (and two line and two-and-one-half line samples of Antique Tuscan Extended.

The 1887 Palmer & Rey catalog is held in a number collections around the US including Columbia University, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, the Hunting Library, University of California at Berkley, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Deleware, and in the Kemble Collection now at Stanford University.
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heute mal wieder Maschinentransport #letterpress

Really just a zine for current+prospective printers, but it does collect some photos of well-used tympans I've taken at our community printshop (tympans sit under the paper you're printing on, so they gather impressions from multiple past printers' projects even w/o accidental inking) #letterpress

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Blocking done. Next is pulling a test print to discover what doesn't print well & what needs relocating to fit right into the existing half-done print. #letterpress

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Sign Painting Meets Letterpress Printing

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It’s international Print Day in May! (@[email protected]) Folks around the world are sharing various kinds of printmaking (not just #letterpress); I’ll share my work from the @[email protected] printshop throughout the day today. #DHprints for all the printing progress pics today.

Print Day in May – A worldwide...

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