Latest posts tagged with #metaltype on Bluesky
Detail of a Letterpress print made with woodtype and metal type. Print favours shapes of letters and type overlaps over readability
I’ve been learning how to make #letterpress ink from #earthpigments and laked botanicals. It’s taken some time! Now working on a concertina artist book with #woodtype and #metaltype. The earth pigments come from my garden and local beaches, & (so far) #lakepigments from onion skins and blackberries
How’s your day going? This is how mine’s going. Can’t complain so far, let’s see how complete this font is…
#metaltype
#letterpress
Locked in metal type on a Korrex proof press
Letterpress printed opening paragraph from Little Snow White from Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the brothers Grimm from 1812.
My first proofs for what will eventually be a fully handmade fine press edition of Little Snow White by the brothers Grimm from 1812
#letterpress #korrex #korrexberlin #finepress #metaltype #handmade
One of the unsung heroes of the print shop is the dehumidifier. Our summers are always humid, & increasingly hot. And humidity is no friend to the cast-iron presses & lead-alloy metal type that fills the space.
#blueridgemountains #virginia #printshop #shoptalk #letterpress #castiron #metaltype
A wooden letterpress type case full of metal letters. A black and white dog is sleeping nearby on the floor.
Late afternoon at the type case… Shop Dog Linji-the-Aussie is exhausted from herding little metal letters all day…
#aussie #letterpress #metaltype #shopdog #printshop
What to with bold, old metal type with the disconcerting name of “Empire”? Well, one solution is to beat swords into ploughshares. So I printed up some 72pt Peace with Morris Fuller Benton’s 1930s design.
#peace #ploughshares #typedesign #metaltype #printinghistory
The shiny metal undersides of all the individual letters and spacing material in a forme of text locked with wooden furniture in a printing chase.
The shiny metal undersides of all the individual letters and spacing material in a forme of text locked with wooden furniture in a printing chase.
The top of a metal type forme, showing the letters to be printed and the spacing material surrounding.
The top of a metal type forme, showing the letters to be printed and the spacing material surrounding.
Have you ever seen the underside of a metal type forme? The bottom of all the letters and spacing material has its own fascinating structure and pattern. (Just make sure it’s locked up tight before taking a look ;-)
#letterpress #metaltype
Slowly & carefully distributing the type back into its case, breaking up the clods of words & spacing material & fingering language’s newly-friable ground again. These little silver seeds will sprout something new, in time.
#letterpress #language #metaltype #distributing #decomposition #bookmaking
Got a new text & forme locked & loaded. I really love it when I can lift the entire thing up to see the back. 😎
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Also, happy summer solstice! Such a lovely print by Gingerly Press.
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#Letterpress #MetalType #TypeForme #TypeOrnaments #OrnamentalInitial
The past week or so I got around to putting my type forme
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I’m also prepping for a workshop, where I spent most of my time cutting leading
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& lastly, finally organized a bunch of ornaments we got years ago.
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#MetalType #Letterpress #TypeOrnaments
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Model: @collibrina.bsky.social
When experiments go wrong… like real wrong…
That pile is an absolutely amazing image of Collibrina - boo.
8x10 wet collodion metaltype
2022
#wetplatecollodion #largeformat #metaltype #whenshitgoesbad
Just listed a huge cache of vintage letterpress ornament/dingbat collections and you can find them (and more) at www.thepaperassembly.etsy.com
#vintage #letterpresstype #letterpressornaments #letterpressdingbats #printing #stamping #claystamping #metaltype
#notlinotype #metaltype #this #handtypesetting #typesetting #collaboration #language Handset in 8 and 10pt Microgramma Stretto, and 48 and 24pt mystery type.
Closeup of letterpress print featuring stationery items built from metal type and ornament. Soft gray ink on white textured paper.
Metal type form used for printing the stationery print. In black and white.
Recently printed an homage to stationery items, built from metal type & ornaments. Got a handful for sale here:
https://www.starshaped.com/small-prints/stationery
#letterpress #metaltype #stationery
4 boxes of newly cast metal type with colorful labels showing the designs.
Beautiful, new designs of cast metal type from @bowerbox.com.
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#letterpress #metaltype
A circular type form made of metal type dots held together with wood letterpress furniture.
Setting dots the way @springtidepress.bsky.social intended.
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#letterpress #metaltype
Honoring Rare Diseases Day by printing something for my zebra kid.
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#letterpress #print #woodtype #metaltype
A blue print that says Just Keep Swimming in script type, surrounded by wavy wood type ornaments.
The script wood type that says Just Keep Swimming.
The wavy ornaments with ink on them, in the press while printing.
This month’s Print Club print combines a lovely wood type script with new ornaments cut by Virgin Wood Type, printed with a split ink fountain.
#letterpress #print #metaltype #woodtype #printclub
It’s still February, which has felt like the longest month of the year. Getting my Spring on!
#letterpress #springtidings #metaltype
picture of a press bed with wood and metal type and some press furniture. The text reads: "Printer's Devil & Gender Punks featuring Pica and The Slugs Produced by Community Print"
Working in studio today!
Hoping to have my first zine printed by Oct 4th.
This is just a test/learning project for the (fake) band Printer's Devil and the Gender Punks.
#QueerArt
#Letterpress
#Printing
#WoodType
#MetalType
#GraphicDesign
#Analog
You're a lot of things to a lot of people, but this weekend, we're celebrating an especially important role you play. You're an awesome mom, and we love you.
#letterpress #mothersday #metaltype #woodtype #letterpressprinting #printmaking #cardmaking
