Letterpressed Stationery
Letterpressed stationery is all custom-made. Choose colors, image, font, paper type, paper style.
Hand-printed on an 1890 letterpress at my home on Rose Avenue in Venice.
Prices vary according to job.
Letterpressed stationery is all custom-made. Choose colors, image, font, paper type, paper style.
Hand-printed on an 1890 letterpress at my home on Rose Avenue in Venice.
Prices vary according to job.
Letterpressed stationery is all custom-made. Choose colors, image, font, paper type, paper style.
Hand-printed on an 1890 letterpress at my home on Rose Avenue in Venice.
Prices vary according to job.
1890 Chandler & Price Letterpress
If you’ve read anything on paper recently, it was undoubtedly typed on a computer and printed digitally. Fast and cheap.
Letterpress printing has been around since the 15th Century.
I print on an 1890 Chandler & Price letterpress, built in Cleveland, Ohio. It’s a platen letterpress, which has a flat plate that presses against paper to make a tactile impression.
The wonder of this big, beautiful machine is the encounter with color, creativity, paper, typeface...all the elements of printing. Each letter is individually picked out and put in place, painstakingly slow and carefully crafted. What comes out is truly handmade.
After more than 30 years of practice, I still feel like a beginner. Turning the wheel over and over while slipping the paper in, I’ve discovered the calmness of repetition, the challenge of getting the perfectly- inked letter or image, the joy of imperfection—a wobbly woodcut, an unexpected color, a softer impression.
I hope this old method survives the digital revolution. One look at my thousand-pound press makes me hopeful that nothing will replace it.
