#letter press

[unwashedace]

Letter Press print made on vandercook press at the dawson print shop in Halifax. A quote from Shirley Jackson’s novel ‘We Have Always Lived In The Castle’.

[ratoartist]

Letter pressed my poem

[beanieforever307]

i think abt my gigi clock a lot

when tasked with making a clock i thought a lot about the concept of time and areas of my life where time feels like the enemy. i thought a lot about my body and as i become a woman how it’s changed. i thought about the confinement of our bodies over the passage of time. This piece is an exploration of identity within temporal boundaries.

named after my sister who let me use her face ❤️

gigi clock, 2023, cyanotype & letterpress.

[dame-nostalgique]

Spring-inspired envelope 🌷🕊️

[thornheartless]

I've been fighting for my life against autocorrect

[luccacaca]

The tension between these two people is INSANE

[little-cat-press]

Sometime when my older siblings were little, my dad discovered that they found stories about his childhood more entertaining if he told them as "One time my friend Frederick..." instead of "One time when I was a kid...", and thus Frederick Stories were born.

I loved hearing Frederick Stories growing up, and so did all of my siblings. At some point, Dad decided to write (some of) them down, and a year or two ago I asked him for the file.

And now, currently in the mail to arrive late for Christmas, is a hand-bound copy of his book.

Two copies, actually, because I'm also sending one to his parents. He mentioned in the introduction that when he had first written these stories down, he had given them a copy for Christmas, and I thought they would like to have another, probably more nicely bound, one.

There's a third copy for me, but it took me long enough to finish these two before Christmas, and my copy isn't finished yet. Mostly, but not quite.

It is bound in a nice brown cloth I have, and titled with gold paint, because I thought it would lend it a sort of Old Book vibe that I thought would go well with the title.

Hence also the gothic font for the title.

I also did a few experiments with ways of turning cloth into bookcloth, which is why the two books are a bit different in color. The one on the right in the above picture is the original cloth color.

The edges are gilded with the same gold paint as the title is done in, which also helps with the Old Fancy Book vibe I wanted.

Almost all of the stories opened with "One day, Frederick..." or "One time, Frederick...", and I picked a nice ornamental font for the dropcaps there.

[roseserpentpress]

In singular deranged days work (where I was supposed to be getting OTHER things done) I made a cipher journal for decoding the ciphers in Gravity Falls, specifically for Journal 3, the Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsite.com. This included (ultimately) three pages of common ciphers used in the Gravity Falls fandom; originally I was only going to do two, but then got to the Blendin page in Journal 3, sighed deeply and made an extra page on the Vignére cipher. The clasps I made myself by hand, and the little white toggle is a raccoon tooth, which I may change out depending on what becomes available. The purple ink, although unable to be seen within the photos, actually glitters and looks rather cosmic to my delight.

Considering I made the most of it within a day, it meant I used the paper I had at hand, which wasn't good paper for actual ink as it bleeds through slightly (and is thus unbecoming), but as a fancy schm-ancy idiot who insists on using actual ink with dip pens for the 'breadth of the experience', this means I'm ultimately only using one side of the paper (to my chagrin) and the letters aren't as clear as they could be when I write on the paper. Nevertheless, I am rather happy about the result; young me from about a decade ago, who began to make a similar journal only to abandon the project would have been immensely excited that I actually made one and am currently using it to decipher things within Journal 3. There is something rather satisfying about it, I do confess.

[jakattax]

Ars Goetia

Translated and edited by Paul Summers Young

Black Letter Press

First Edition of 333 copies

2024

[basil--and--sage]

The movies might portray Kíli as a cheeky ladies' man, but I think we should embrace his true self: an easily flustered dork.

He might manage a little bit of banter and a wink, but as soon as a lady genuinely approaches him? He turns purple, fumbles for his words and radiates enough awkward energy to give psychic damage to everyone in an one mile radius.

Which is kind of a problem, since our dear Kíli would love to court and wed (and have a few little Dwarflings), but unfortunately he nearly faints every time he has to speak to a lady.

In the Shire he sees a lady's ankle for the first time. He nearly spontaneously combusts.

(Fíli (*fanning air at Kíli*): "Brother, keep breathing!"

Kíli: *hot tea kettle noises*)

His wink at the Elf in Rivendell? She winks back and he chokes on his food.

His declaration of love to Tauriel, after she heals him? Only possible, because the lad is still high as a kite.

And the conversation with Tauriel during the imprisonment? Does happen, but he's bright red, sweats miserably and has to start over five times to tell the story about the fire moon.

And Tauriel? Blushes violently, spontaneously forgets the ability to speak and drops his rune stone three times.

(Fíli, watching from his own cell: "By my beard, they are made for each other!")

[freebooter4ever]

he's finally fully clothed!!!! yayyyyy!!!!! :) good job geno! also i DID get a heart in there, its on the back of his jersey in place of the brand logo haha

[ryllen]

Look what came through the mail today! The letters & ( •̀ω•́ )σ 3 little gremlins from letterstoear.

Just wanna say i adore the flower stickers on the letters too much, they are that much worth mentioning.

[thepressanon]

[Sparkles is now on the patio, mainly leaning against the railing and just watching Peter. He doesn't say anything yet.]

-✨ Anon (Sparkles Anon)

press turned around with a pack of cigarettes in his hand from grabbing them from behind the flower pot

love? love!- are you ok?! what happened!?..

peter got up taking a step towards aster

[dame-nostalgique]

Some more envelopes from my latest letter 💌🦄

[littlealienproducts]

Antique Letterpress Printers Cabinet from Zebrazoet

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]