Three Colour Letterpress Print
Eight hundred invitations for our next exhibition “Tinsmiths’ Printmakers 2011” have just rolled off the press. We selected “The Liverton Fox” from work by printmaker John Richardson and set about making three engravings from a digital...
Counting the Days
Our 2011 Letterpress Calendar is being typeset as I post this blog. This year we are delighted to feature Tilley’s wooden and metal type. With such a magnificent variety, the choosing of these large blocks was a thoroughly enjoyable experience . The typefaces...
Bringing Poetry to Your Elbow –
Tinsmiths Tipples In celebration of Roger Abbott’s poetry performance at Tinsmiths as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival 2010, we collaborated with Tilley’s Printers to create “Tinsmiths Tipples”, beermats rejoicing in Roger’s limericks....
Hot Off the (Letter) Press
Letterpress deckled-edge cards with lino-cut by Angie Lewin