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Louche Lothario?
or
Power Flower Salesman?

This Biedermeier Beau is taking care of all of these posies for you... With a few emergency blooms in reserve for another customer!
Olin Library at #WashU, glimpsed during the #movablebooksociety conference!

CASCADIA UNITE!

My hope muscles need a workout.

There was a beautiful moment printing PEACE over waves (made from bamboo by Columbia Gorge Book Arts). Taking a ghost print revealed the waves left on each letter, fragile and echoing.

#iprotest #savegazanow #woodtype #iamhamfam #letterpress

Since January I’ve been printing a monthly protest poster utilizing and documenting the wood type in my collection. The barrage of news is unrelenting, but for August I wanted to focus on the continuing and horrifying genocide in Gaza.

We Demand a New Board of Directors at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Key Issues with Board Actions · Cancellation of Artist Residencies: The Board canceled fully funded residencies, disregarding restricted donor and grant commitments. This breached trust with funders a...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

And one board member has stepped down but has not commented on IG about that decision.

Pritzker is giving real "lawn chair in a parking spot on a snow day in Chicago" energy.

Fauxstage from my class at SF Center for the Book last weekend.
#powerofthepress #letterpress #stampede

hot dog, near buns

From a letter mailed in 1978, stamps with the message:

Yes! Printed on a Vandercook Uni 1, modeled with Vandercook t-shirt. #printtherapy

2 screenshots from a scene with Philomena #Cunk standing along a railroad track. Caption of first: "With its cowboys and guns and steam train rides, America became known as the land of the free." Caption of second: "...which must have come as a surprise to all the slaves."

A little classic Cunk, in honor of America's birthday.

Quote by civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.
Printed with 20L Gothic Shaded, worried sick about our country (and every dog on this ridiculous holiday).
#iprotest #woodtype #fannielouhamer #woodtypespecimen

30L Gothic for the June specimen.
No thrones, no crowns, no kings. Rise up!

#iprotest #nokings #woodtype #letterpress #pride🌈

So, so good

Men are too emotional to hold positions of power

Big wood type, tiny wood type… and chickens.
#iprotest #letterpress #tacotrade

SO healing ❤️

Prepping for Penland next month, Session 3 Lettersport and Wordplay. Very excited to be back!

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#daredevilletterpress #letterpress #bookarts

and I take great pride in printing these envelopes, probably 40 years after they were made? Thank you, Operator No. 941502.

print of the day, spotted on my way to print!

#lino #pride #pridewasariot #queer #queerprint #letterpressprinter

Today’s the big day for our son Sylvan who has been working on his Lego build ‘Outbreak at Z Corp’ for the last several months and is displaying it at the Bricks Cascade Lego Expo this weekend. Of course we would end up in the post-apocalyptic theme 😀 So proud of him! With @abel-kloster.bsky.social

amazing!

Recovering from dental surgery, and healing with new books from @blackbirdletterpress.com, Jim Grieshaber, and Gaby Bazin. All highly recommended, and exceedingly therapeutic.
#letterpress #bookarts #printerslibrary

Apparently some people are interested in having a baby boom right now. We took to Abigail Adams’s (a revolutionary among revolutionaries) girlhood home with a few ideas of what might help make that happen; basically, respect women.

SEND AN EMAIL: Tell Congress to Reinstate the Librarian of Congress! President Trump has crossed another dangerous line by abruptly firing Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause!

Send an email to your representative to stop Trump's attack on the Library of Congress.

action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Pip Pip Hooray!