Saturday 21 September 2013

Two (letterpress) days out

The Whittington Press Open Day, September 7th.
Presstival 2013 poster featuring very large Caslon ligature.




















Tilley Printing in Ledbury, Open Day visit on September 10th.
Lots to make me smile!



Monday 2 September 2013

This land is your land

The title of a folk song written by Woody Guthrie in 1944. It speaks to us in Stroud at the moment where 2 housing development plans are working their way through the planning process.
Letterpress comment here: the rights of the land owner on one side, balanced against the public right of way on the other. Our local valley landscape of fields, woods and footpaths is a precious part of our lives.
The small woodcut to the right of the word "is" is by father. He cut his initials the wrong way round, so they have printed backwards. Schoolboy error, dad?!