letterpress printing

act your SHOE SI/E

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them” Albert Einstein

Jacquetta brings some fun and quirky type setting to this morning’s letterpress workshop.

With no Z in this alphabet she comes up with another solution. A forward slash hints at the idea of a Z. Simple and effective. Oh the beauty of limitations. 

Jacquetta making sure type is back to front and and not upside down in this case as type is set straight into the chase. 

Jacquetta making sure type is back to front and and not upside down in this case as type is set straight into the chase. 

not your AGE 

Jacquetta chooses large caps type for SHOE SIZE & AGE to make her point.

Jacquetta chooses large caps type for SHOE SIZE & AGE to make her point.

Jacquetta’s Motto

"act your SHOE SIZE
not your AGE"
Jacquetta’s finished motto printed on the adana 8 x 5 printing press. 

Jacquetta’s finished motto printed on the adana 8 x 5 printing press. 

Jacquetta was a fantastic problem solver and quick to learn which shows in her beautifully finished letterpress prints.  


Hamilton Wood’s Type and Printing Museum 

Thanks Jacquetta for sharing this video about Hamilton Wood’s Type and Printing Museum.

Little Book of Letterpress

And thank you also for this beautiful gift ‘Little Book of Letterpress’ by Charlotte Rivers. 

And thank you also for this beautiful gift ‘Little Book of Letterpress’ by Charlotte Rivers. 

Letterpress Prints by Charlotte & Philippa

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Beautifully printed cards by Charlotte and Philippa at the letterpress taster workshop. Charlotte used a mix of large metal type to print ALICE and RORY. Philippa printed "And all the while a great wind carries me across the SKY..." in 10pt New Clarendon. Together they made "ThaNk YOu" cards using a mix of uppercase and lowercase Univers type. Thank you both for your dynamism!

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A Short Film - Printing Heron Shade EP - woodblock & letterpress

Heron Shade EP - Limited Edition

The heron print on the front cover and disc label was hand-printed with Japanese carbon ink from a hand carved woodblock.

The back cover was typeset with 24pt Univers metal type printed with gold letterpress ink on the Adana 8 X 5 platen press.

Heron Shade title on the front cover was printed using blind deboss on the Adana 8 x 5.

I have made a limited edition of 100 EPs. Each cd is packaged in a 100% recycled card sleeve with a digitally printed insert on recycled paper.

Letterpress - Mermaids and Blacksmiths

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Jess ward EP - 100 EP covers printed on the Adana 8x 5. Plum black ink on smooth white 100% recycled card stock.

Adana 8x5 check up-checked and all working fine and dandy!

Top Tips from Roy Caslon:

  1. Make sure the chase base is the right height and sitting level with the bottom of the chase.

  2. Check roller runners are the right way round and the correct diameter.

  3. Make sure the laygauge is not touching the chase base.

Jess Ward - EP

Recent design and printed edition of 100 EP covers for wonderful folk singer and harpist, Jess Ward from Pembrokeshire. She has just released her four track EP, gleaming beautiful songs of mermaids & blacksmiths...

Jess Ward - EP

  1. The Blacksmith 07:31

  2. The Giddy Girl 05:49

  3. The Mermaid's Lament 06:23

  4. 3 Leaves 06:35