Frost Pocket Press & Studio

3 yellow woodcuts of pebbles on sandy coloured Japanese paper, the pebbles have been painted over with bluegrey watercolour.

Woodblocks on press having just been printed with the print beside.

My contribution to #Coast Frost Box 1. Driftwood #woodcut and #watercolour on Japanese paper. The box is an #artistsmultiples folio/ephemera edition of 25 on a single word theme, from @frostpocketpress.bsky.social Different invited artists will be invited for the next box on the theme Neep.

Contents of Coast Box, page of chapbook, haar arrows, vintage map section, cyanotype with rudder, woodcut print, fish tallies, letterpress Postcard and envelope with pressed leaf and bird stamp

Frost Box 1, #Coast is now available. Featuring 8 pieces of #Ephemera #printmaking #letterpress #cyanotype and #vintagemaps. Should be on the website later today. We'll have these at VAS Artist and Maker market at Dalkeith Palace 15-17 August, just outside #Edinburgh #Scotland

5 different map sections with print over ship on 3 and shells on 1 and harbour scene on another

Sections of Scotlands #Coast, each Coast Box will have a unique section of an original linen backed 1930s #touringmap with additional #letterpress printed old printers stock block. #artistsmultiples #history #Scotland

Letterpress printed page of chapbook

Today's addition to #Coast Frost Box. Reprint of #chapbook page from Captain Ward and the Rain-Bow from 1780ish. Thanks to National Library of Scotland Scotland for the permission to print this. Typeset in Bell, which is from the same period, #letterpress printed on newsprint. #artistmultiple

3 tickets pinned to wall

Piles of paper tickets being stapled together. Each pile has a different boats name Conquest, S. Finest and Courageous

Compiling sets of Fish tallies for the #Coast Frost Box. These were paper tickets used for #fish catches at the markets which identified who caught the fish for reimbursement. #history now with the digital age. Each Coast Box will have a set of these. #letterpress #artistsmultiples

Old maps of Scotland with a flat box on top printed with Coast, Frost box 1

Something new on the way. Frost box #artistmultiple will have elements of #poetry #letterpress #printmaking and ephemera on a theme. First box is Coast

You'd think this was filmed in February, North East Scotland in May #letterpress #Scotland #springweather

Printed engravers illustration of a Curlew in black with part of a poem about Curlews printed on off white/buff colour paper.

Here's a lovely #thomasbewick Curlew or Whaup, as it's known in Scotland, for #worldcurlewday We are lucky to have about 40 or so #curlews enjoying the fields behind us at Frost Pocket, they loop round from field to shore wheeping all the way. #letterpress #britishbirds #printersblock #poetry

Curious about #letterpress printing? Frost Pocket Press are running half day workshops giving you a flavour of traditional letterpress. Email frostpocketpress@gmail.com for more information and to book your place. Sat 17 May, 1-4pm £60. Wed 28 May, 1-4pm £60. Sat 14 Jun, 1-4pm £60.

New #letterpress posters on our website, as always using antique woodtype and vintage metal type. Chocolate features 2 art nouveau ornaments from @mckellier.bsky.social revival series, some of the only 'new' blocks we have. Looking good with the Creamore Mill oak #poster hangers. #buyartfromartists

Text in cream reads it is recommended that Chocolate be eaten all year round. Don't leave it till Easter! Turquoise ornamental borders printed on black background.

Vintage black glassine paper, the very paper used for After Eight mint chocolates, hot of the press this afternoon. Hopefully dry for Spring Fair this Sunday at Mill of Benholm, Scotland.
#letterpress #buyartfromartists #shoplocal #chocolate #buyanalogue

Pangram haiku from A fount of pangrams. This page is in Bell 14 point.
#worldpoetryday #pangram #haiku #letterpress #chapbook #artistbook

Mini daredevil setup today.
#letterpress #daredevilprint #sun #birds

'How' is Columbus and 'old' is in what we call in Scotland Playbill🙌

Sundae Sunday Kind of day, printing for next market. Using some old and worn wood type, a card for those less enamoured with the number of years behind them. #letterpress #sundaesunday #woodtype #howold

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Can you put as cool as I am on separate line underneath? With an extra space BTW authoritarian of quote and quote? Go with your gut 🙂

Charlie Chaplin quote ready for printing
#letterpress #famousquotes #rainbow

International Women's Day
Women of the world, we have the right!
#womensday2025 #womenprinters #letterpress #coffeepaper

This book is an edition of 10 available now on our website
#worldbookday #chapbook #letterpress #pangrams #printisnotdead

World book day
A fount of pangrams, a chapbook of sorts, featuring 22 pangrams created specifically for their typefaces. All but the smallest 3 metal types at Frost Pocket. Pangrams have been used by printers & typographers since the beginning, and have been around for centuries before that.