Ladies of Letterpress - dedicated to the proposition that a woman's place is in the print shop

dedicated to the proposition that a woman's place is in the print shop

Welcome to Ladies of Letterpress

Hi All! Welcome to the Ladies of Letterpress community, a place where you can read about our adventures in commercial, fine-press, and zine printing, ask for advice and learn from other printers, share resources, and get inspiration for your own business and work--all for the love of letterpress. Our mission is to promote the art and craft of letterpress printing, encourage the voice and vision of women printers, and to stimulate discourse within this community. We strive to maintain the cultural legacy of fine press printing, advance letterpress as a living, contemporary art form as well as a viable commercial printing method. Anyone is welcome to join, and membership is 100% free.

There is a lot to do here: using the tabs above, you can make your own page for other Ladies of Letterpress to see, start your own blog, ask questions or post topics in the forum, and post videos and photos of your own work.

In addition to building this community, we plan on attending book and craft fairs, having meetups and collaborative projects, and finding ways to help others through letterpress printing and the book arts. If you would like to be a guest blogger, contact us with your idea; posts will appear here and on the non-ning site, ladiesofletterpress.blogspot.com.

Who are we? Jessica is an MA and MFA holder in printmaking from the University of Iowa, and proprietor of Heroes and Criminals Press. Kseniya is the owner of Thomas-Printers, a commercial letterpress and design shop, and YonderYest, a letterpress wedding stationery company.

Questions or ideas? Let us know!

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Links

Briar Press

NA Graphics

Vandercookpress.info

Women's Studio Workshop

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Videos

Abigail Uhteg at the Women's Studio Workshop

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Pictoral Webster from start to finish

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Blog Posts

Vandercook Models for LofL

Pacific Center for the Book Arts (PCBA) is happy to offer the Ladies of Letterpress community a special holiday promotion for its new Vandercook paper model.

The model, produced in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Vandercook Universal I Proofing Press, arrives flat in a manila envelope with instructions for assembly. The paper pieces pop out… Continue

Posted by Lars K on November 19, 2009 at 6:10pm

Reported occupations, 1850-2000

Via the Photopolymer Listserv, a visual representation of various occupations, male vs. female , from 1850-1900:

I typed in "Typesetter"--why the female peak around 1900?

Check it out… Continue

Posted by kseniya on November 19, 2009 at 9:01am — 1 Comment

hello there: 3-pk flat letterpress cards

A simple and sweet… Continue

Posted by SeeSaw Designs on November 18, 2009 at 7:28pm

Is nothing sacred anymore?

OK, folks, there are some things I just can't keep my mouth shut about. The Home Letterpress Machine is one of them. All I can say is shame on you, Paper Source.

THIS IS NOT LETTERPRESS. This maybe can create letterpress-looking, or letterpress-ish, or letterpress wanna-be things, but to call this Letterpress - without any note of "not really but you can pretend" is an… Continue

Posted by Maggie Roberts on November 18, 2009 at 2:06pm — 9 Comments

Ladies of Letterpress at the National Stationery Show

Next May, Ladies of Letterpress will have a booth at the National Stationery Show! This is great, of course, but we (for I'll be there too) wouldn't have been exhibiting there as a group without the great organization that is Ladies of Letterpress, which is now made up of over 300 printers worldwide (yay!). The Stationery Show is a great opportunity to promote LofL and bring it to a wider audience and public forum, and we want to make sure that the members are also well-represented. We're discus… Continue

Posted by kseniya on November 17, 2009 at 8:18pm — 5 Comments

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Jenelle Weidlich, Allison Fischbach and Julie Schumacher joined Ladies of Letterpress

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Adrienne Berry commented on Maggie Roberts's blog post 'Is nothing sacred anymore?'

You got me at "Shame on you Paper-Source". I almost barfed on my monitor when I got that email this morning and considered closing my account with WNP because of it. Disgusted!!!!

15 hours ago

anemone letterpress commented on Maggie Roberts's blog post 'Is nothing sacred anymore?'

Personally, that brayer business would send me right over the edge. Seriously though, I think Kseniya is right about the scrapbooking aspect. From the video is looks like it would be time suck to produce multiples of one motif, let alone a two or ...

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A blog post by Lars K was featured

Vandercook Models for LofL

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Lars K added a blog post

Vandercook Models for LofL

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Tamara-Fresh Heifers Letterpress commented on Maggie Roberts's blog post 'Is nothing sacred anymore?'

Stuff like this is all the more reason we need to get the word out about the real people who letterpress print the real thing and that the end results are very different between what we do and this, this fake?

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Tamara-Fresh Heifers Letterpress commented on kseniya's blog post 'Ladies of Letterpress at the National Stationery Show'

Wow! Love the "LOL Presents...." looks great! Can't wait to see who else will be in attendance!

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