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As designers we decided to rescue tools of the past in order to capture all the creativity of...

Paper Lovely

Paper Lovely is a letterpress and design studio located in Omaha, Nebraska. I started Paper Lovely...

Letterpress Tips

This site is a letterpress primer or tutorial. I have tried to present systematically printing lore...

Have you ever wanted to typeset and print a passage of text in a particular face, but knew you had...

This website is a free resource for Vandercook proof press operators. While their popularity...

This is a very simple method of making paper. It is intended as an introductory process for home...

Boxcar Press hosts a growing list of instruction and parts manuals for a number of different...

Typecase Layouts

David Bolton of the Alembic Press has collected an astounding variety of...

Hand Printing: a Basic Manual, covers the process of making a greeting card and includes the steps...

[ Laura Minor, Carl’s daughter tells us that “…most of the videos that my father...

The Kelsey Company of Meriden, Ct., manufactured and sold printing presses and supplies until 1990....

A glossary of printing and typographical terms by Tom Davis of Birmingham University.

[Update: This address is no longer be valid. —Eds.] Dave Bossard has made a helpful site for...

(Editor’s note: We have received information that the web site is no longer working. If...

This detailed FAQ, drawn from the Letterpress...

Written by Herbert Simon and Harry Carter, published by The Driad Press, 1931; 1947. This is a...

The video starts out with a Kelsey press, shows the various parts, putting on the rollers, the...