Monday, October 11
Springtide Press hosts the Children's Museum | Just For Fun, Literacy & Books
holiday cards the 19th century way!
Last weekend, Jessica Spring hosted us in her beautiful studio to teach us how to print letterpress cards for the Children's Museum's annual holiday card project.
Children spent the day hovering over drawers of typeface making sure to touch as many of the tiny metal alphabets as possible, arranging the blocks and setting the type with the skill of a surgeon and cranking out prints on a press from the 1880's.
It was a long day of meticulous attention to detail and vision of a finished product. The kids had a blast and the folks from Springtide Press were fun, professional and great teachers. It was very sweet of them to donate their time and energy to pass along a tradition and skill which dates beyond the 1400's. Be sure to see Jessica's studio next month at Tacoma's Art at Work studio tours.
Purchase 2010 holiday cards here.
Cards produced in collaboration with Springtide Press available in 2011.
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