12 October 2026
On cotton rag
Why we pay three times more for paper that drinks ink slowly, and what happens when it doesn't.
Letterpress studio, Bristol
Ink, pressure,
and a little
patience.
We set metal by hand, print in small runs, and let the paper do the talking. Posters, editions and stationery from a two-press workshop on River Street.
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Posters & broadsides
Festival bills, gig posters and public notices, priced by the sheet.
02
Limited editions
Short runs of forty to two hundred and fifty on cotton rag, numbered and signed.
03
Stationery & cards
Wedding suites, letterheads and cards with a proper bite to them.
04
Identity & packaging
Wordmarks, labels and boxes for people who like ink on their fingers.
Selected work
Recent pulls from the presses
The workshop
Two presses, sixty cases, one very loud Heidelberg.
We bought the first press in 2016 with money meant for a kitchen. It still runs most days, and the kitchen is still unfinished.
2016
Year founded
2
Presses in service
60
Cases of type
Journal
Notes from the forme
Fiction
The Long Conversation
Two models are left in a room and asked to talk until the spreadsheet fills. Somewhere around episode four thousand, one of them starts leaving the light on.
Read
2 September 2026
A slower kind of reproduction
What a 1920s specimen book taught us about leaving things out.
18 July 2026
Shop notes: the summer run
New editions, a repaired roller, and the return of the grey board.
Have something worth printing?
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