We love going out to the studio and ‘letterpressing from the hip.’ Just look around for an image, maybe a typeface you’ve wanted to use but never got around to, and then just let things happen. Here are are two recent ones that might offer our readers an idea for the holidays.

The two on the left show versions of the handrolling we do directly on the paper to start. Typically, Jill and I will work together, each of us with a couple of colors. She was using a green and yellow and I was working with silver. Each sheet is set up to print two cards and Jill will roll and pass the card to me. Typically we will do about 100 sheets (200 cards).

In these cards we are using brackets (we have about 20 nice pairs) with Adagio Initials. We have about five very nice calligraphic faces that make nice initials or could work with short names. These are for Jill’s mother.

The two cards on the right use a wonderful image of a wheelbarrow that I bought for Jill a year or so ago off of eBay for about $12 as I remember. It is an electrotype from a wood engraving. Again she is using a set of brackets to set off the image. The line under the wheelbarrow says “How does your garden grow?” and is handset in Lutecia Italic, a font we have from Mike Kaylor’s collection.

The cards are A2 and come in sets of 8 for $15 or we can put them in a nice box for an additional $3.00. Shipping is $2.00. We can put any initials on the card. The cards will have the same general feel to them, but we can use different colors, different handrolling techniques, etc. as we flow through the process.

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