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Printing letterpress from handset type whenever possible, in Seattle

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🎉 @DesertBus starts this Saturday, Nov. 12th!! this year i made an Inscryption-shaped playing card deck that's up for giveaway there on the 17th so if you would like to haunt your home with it for the @CPCharity cause that is your chance https://t.co/YHvsmqoSpY

[cyclesprefect press @cyclesprefect]

🎉 @DesertBus starts this Saturday, Nov. 12th!! this year i made an Inscryption-shaped playing card deck that's up for giveaway there on the 17th so if you would like to haunt your home with it for the @CPCharity cause that is your chance https://t.co/YHvsmqoSpY

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Gonna be doing a whole lot of work & turn for this project

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Bindery, or as my mother calls it: last chance to ruin the job

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

Ebru is the ancient Turkish art of marbling - creating colourful patterns by sprinkling & brushing pigments on water, which are transferred to paper. Highly regarded, it is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. Today the tradition continues

A thread on the art of Ebru…

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You know I really like the way they turn out on the backside too

[James Freemantle @StJamesPrkPress]

ANIMAL FARM: The type is almost fully cast and the wonderfully bold linocut illustrations by Hugh Ribbans @HughRibbans are well underway… as 1984 is slowly reaching its end, the next edition starts to see the light of day.

#animalfarm #orwell #georgeorwell #letterpress #books

[Letterform Archive @Lett_Arc]

Stephen Coles (@stewf) demonstrates an unusual printer’s reference binder: Type Faces of Monotype, Linotype, and Miscellaneous Display Faces, The Cuneo Press of New England, Cambridge, ca. 1955.

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Autocorrect please im begging—washups

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I’m so resistant to doing extra warships just for color cleanliness that here I am printing a little dingbat on a flyer, oh, a month and a half early, just to get the press squeaky clean from black to red

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Interesting discrepancy between Ay and Aye in some versions, but Aye was in my grandmothers 1944 printing of The Prophet and the customer preferred it so that’s what I did

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An extremely sweet & good paper anniversary gift to get to put together :))

Kahlil Gibran, On Marriage

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Set in Optima & Palatino