September 1, 2009 – 11:19 pm
The 51st bundle of the Letterpress Exchange Group (LEG) arrived recently and, as always, the package contained a wonderfully eclectic collection of beautifully executed letterpress work. With great difficulty, I have selected my favourite pieces from the August bundle and have posted them here, for your enjoyment.
Mike Edwards contributed a booklet that features a collection [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Letterpress Exchange Group, letterpress, printing, printmaking
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Also tagged Alan Brignull, Andrew Dolinski, Ericius Press, Graham Moss, Helen Ingham, Incline Press, John Cornelisse, LEG, letterpress, Letterpress Exchange Group, Mike Edwards, Peter Criddle, Richard Lawrence, Simon Smallwood, The Hedgehog Press
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Richard Ardagh of Elephants Graveyard directed me to this delightful short movie showing him printing – ably assisted by Graham Bignell of New North Press – some letterpress posters, on an Albion Press. This poster, to commemorate the 150th Aniversary of Wilton’s Music Hall, is available for purchase along with other letterpress printed items via [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Hand Presses, letterpress, pressmanship, printing
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Also tagged Albion, Elephants Graveyard, Graham Bignell, letterpress, New North Press, press, Richard Ardagh, Wilton’s Music Hall, woodletter
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Widely shared on Twitter, this movie is just too wonderful not to feature on my Blog. Filmed by Cool Hunting Video, it shows Grafica Fidalga, a trio of letterpress printers in São Paulo, Brazil, who print wood type posters on a 1929 German cylinder printing press.
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, printing, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, letterpress, Poster, São Paulo, wood type
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February 25, 2009 – 10:46 pm
I have been extremely fortunate to receive a day’s tuition from Phil Abel at Hand & Eye Letterpress, in the fine art of ‘make-ready’ and ‘overlaying’ on the letterpress cylinder press. After mentioning to Phil that I hope to achieve high-quality work on my Wharfedale press, once it is restored to working order, he kindly [...]
October 28, 2008 – 9:28 pm
Just over a week ago I attended a Hot-Metal open day at the Crescent Card Company (Tiptree), where Len Friend and Dave Boden provided a hands-on Ludlow typecasting workshop. I came away having learnt a great deal about the process and proudly clutching the prize of a freshly cast ‘slug’ of type. I also managed [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in hot metal, letterpress, typecasting
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Also tagged crescent card company, dave boden, hot metal, len friend, letterpress, ludlow, matrices, tiptree, typecasting
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October 13, 2008 – 7:30 pm
During the past weekend, tentative attempts were made to bring the largest printing press in our collection back into production for book and poster work. Our Wharfedale cylinder press was manufactured in 1888 by W. Dawson & Sons in Otley, West Yorkshire, and whilst it is one of the smaller machines of its type, it [...]
August 25, 2008 – 11:48 pm
After fourteen years of active letterpress printing and two years of dedicated planning, Typoretum has been successfully launched.
Since launching Typoretum on the 14th August 2008, we have been busy designing and printing new letterpress card designs, some of which are now available for purchase online via our website at http://www.typoretum.co.uk
