Read The Room - Letterpress Print

Hooksmith Press

£55.00 Delivery included

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    • Order placed
    • 9th May
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    • 13th May
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    • Standard delivery
    • 15th - 16th May

Credentials

  • Recycled Materials
  • Made in UK
  • Handmade
Description

A new print for 2024 using antique 'white letter' type. It’s a lovely expression don’t you think? A very striking print made with black ink. White ink tends to be somewhat transparent (and slow drying). The cameo or white-letter is the actual showing of the paper and what printers did way back when to get solid white text on the page. If only the blocks weren’t so troublesome on the press - in part due to wear. Most printers despised working with this style of type and this makes it subsequently quite difficult to source today. In 14 plus years hunting, I have only managed to acquire 2 sets. In which room would hang this?

Need to know

Print size 450x320mm (SRA3) Printed on Recycled card stock 270gsm. Vansons rubber ink. Hand printed on a Vandercook SP15 Proofing Press. Sold unframed

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Receive it by 15th - 16th May

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Hooksmith

Hooksmith Press

Leytonstone, london

Typographic prints made lovingly by hand, using age old and rare letterpress equipment from the vast and revered Hooksmith Press collection–some nearing 200 years old.

The wordsmithing is as varied as the typefaces. Hooksmith Press produces both solely text-based prints, and text accompanied by imagery (from antique advertising/pictorial plates and bold colour blocks and borders). Subjects range from, fun poetic-witticisms, nostalgic & contemporary observations/sage advice or the just plain obtuse.