Variations

Cover design 1 in progress. Gold foil on maroon book cloth

Cover design 2. Ink on grey book cloth

Cover design 3. Silver foil on midnight blue book cloth

Jacket-slip typed on Smith-Corona Classic 12 6cpi

Pretty satisfied with the way this project has turned out. Now on to the next!

120 lino prints…

being sewn into a first run of ten little books

This is tank-top guy feeling festive

This is Crow, missing her friend Tank-top guy

Sometimes when you miss someone, you just have to caw them up on the phone…

and work out how to spend time together, in a corvid safe way.

Printing without a press

This is the first test this evening of a bookplate design. A lino cut of my Underwood 5, and text printed by hand using some type I bought off eBay a few years ago. I made the text block by clamping the letters and spaces together with duck tape. I’m using oil based block printing ink, and rubbing the back of the paper with a bone letter opener. The text block is simply stamped on by hand. I do love making things completely by hand. Don’t let the lack of a printing press stop you from making prints at home.