@cyclesprefect

Printing letterpress from handset type whenever possible, in Seattle

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🎉 @DesertBus starts this Saturday, Nov. 12th!! this year i made an Inscryption-shaped playing card deck that's up for giveaway there on the 17th so if you would like to haunt your home with it for the @CPCharity cause that is your chance desertbus.org/prize/73
Photos of a letterpress-printed playing card deck based on the video game Inscryption. Printed on brown chipboard, each royal and ace is illustrated with one of the monsters or characters of Leshy's version of the game: Cat, Stinkbug, Stunted Wolf, etc.

ALT Photos of a letterpress-printed playing card deck based on the video game Inscryption. Printed on brown chipboard, each royal and ace is illustrated with one of the monsters or characters of Leshy's version of the game: Cat, Stinkbug, Stunted Wolf, etc.

another photo showing each of the royals and aces, designated by suit: Spades: Ace, Beehive. Jack, Mantis God. Queen, Woodcarver. King, Stinkbug. Clubs: Ace, Geck. Jack, Ouroboros. Queen, Mycologist. King, Leshy. Diamonds: Ace, Sparrow. Jack, Long Elk. Queen, Prospector. King, Stoat. Hearts: Ace, Cat. Jack, Child 13. Queen, Angler. King, Stunted Wolf. Joker: Starvation

ALT another photo showing each of the royals and aces, designated by suit: Spades: Ace, Beehive. Jack, Mantis God. Queen, Woodcarver. King, Stinkbug. Clubs: Ace, Geck. Jack, Ouroboros. Queen, Mycologist. King, Leshy. Diamonds: Ace, Sparrow. Jack, Long Elk. Queen, Prospector. King, Stoat. Hearts: Ace, Cat. Jack, Child 13. Queen, Angler. King, Stunted Wolf. Joker: Starvation

a closeup up of some of the cards, like the Ace of clubs where the Geck's head, curved spine, and coiled tail make the three lobes of the club shape.

ALT a closeup up of some of the cards, like the Ace of clubs where the Geck's head, curved spine, and coiled tail make the three lobes of the club shape.

a photo of the seventeen 2x3 inch carved linoleum blocks used to relief-print the illustrated cards of the deck. The pips and ranks of each card were printed from formes of handset lead type; the backs of each card were printed with an approximation of Inscryptions in-game card deck decoration built from brass rule and decorative lead pieces.

ALT a photo of the seventeen 2x3 inch carved linoleum blocks used to relief-print the illustrated cards of the deck. The pips and ranks of each card were printed from formes of handset lead type; the backs of each card were printed with an approximation of Inscryptions in-game card deck decoration built from brass rule and decorative lead pieces.

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Gonna be doing a whole lot of work & turn for this project
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Bindery, or as my mother calls it: last chance to ruin the job
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Bayt Al Fann
@BaytAlFann1 Nov 2022
Ebru is the ancient Turkish art of marbling - creating colourful patterns by sprinkling & brushing pigments on water, which are transferred to paper. Highly regarded, it is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. Today the tradition continues A thread on the art of Ebru…
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You know I really like the way they turn out on the backside too
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James Freemantle@StJamesPrkPress25 Sep 2022
ANIMAL FARM: The type is almost fully cast and the wonderfully bold linocut illustrations by Hugh Ribbans @HughRibbans are well underway… as 1984 is slowly reaching its end, the next edition starts to see the light of day. #animalfarm #orwell #georgeorwell #letterpress #books
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Letterform Archive@Lett_Arc12 Sep 2022
Stephen Coles (@stewf) demonstrates an unusual printer’s reference binder: Type Faces of Monotype, Linotype, and Miscellaneous Display Faces, The Cuneo Press of New England, Cambridge, ca. 1955.
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I’m so resistant to doing extra warships just for color cleanliness that here I am printing a little dingbat on a flyer, oh, a month and a half early, just to get the press squeaky clean from black to red
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Autocorrect please im begging—washups
An extremely sweet & good paper anniversary gift to get to put together :)) Kahlil Gibran, On Marriage
A photo of a 5x7 inch letterpress printed broadside, an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran’s “the Prophet,” “On Marriage.” Printed in black on a white sheet with a deckle edge at the bottom.

ALT A photo of a 5x7 inch letterpress printed broadside, an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran’s “the Prophet,” “On Marriage.” Printed in black on a white sheet with a deckle edge at the bottom.

A close-up of the broadside, showing the large drop-cap Y starting the broadside, and the first half of the poem. “You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.”

ALT A close-up of the broadside, showing the large drop-cap Y starting the broadside, and the first half of the poem. “You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.”

A photo of the handset forme of lead type used to print the broadside. Each letter and space is an individual piece that is assembled for the printing, then distributed back into its case of letters and ready to re-set to print a different forme.

ALT A photo of the handset forme of lead type used to print the broadside. Each letter and space is an individual piece that is assembled for the printing, then distributed back into its case of letters and ready to re-set to print a different forme.

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Set in Optima & Palatino
A close-up of the letterpress broadside, focusing on the bottom half: “for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

ALT A close-up of the letterpress broadside, focusing on the bottom half: “for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

A close-up of the handset forme of type used to print the broadside, showing how it is assembled from individual letters and spaces.

ALT A close-up of the handset forme of type used to print the broadside, showing how it is assembled from individual letters and spaces.

A photo of the whole forme of type, especially showing the relief nature of the letters so that ink only hits the raised surface in each letter’s shape, and the raised letters press into the paper to make an impression on the surface.

ALT A photo of the whole forme of type, especially showing the relief nature of the letters so that ink only hits the raised surface in each letter’s shape, and the raised letters press into the paper to make an impression on the surface.

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Interesting discrepancy between Ay and Aye in some versions, but Aye was in my grandmothers 1944 printing of The Prophet and the customer preferred it so that’s what I did
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