![]() ![]() The letters are always in the same place. Each drawer of type, it’s called a California case, has a basic set-up. So let’s say you have a paragraph of type that you want to print, you hand set all the letters. Reba: Letterpress is basically just individual letters that are put into sentences, put together. We took an area and went through the boxes, figured out what was there, and put some stuff into drawers Can you explain what letterpress means and the process? I went there with Columbia for a weekend. They have a huge warehouse of stuff they haven’t even gone through yet. They have the equipment to make type and they still do cut type, it’s pretty pricey, though, and then they just have cases and cases of type. It is a museum in Two Rivers, WI and they actually produced a majority of the wood type that came out back in the day and now it’s a museum. On your Flikr pages I saw pictures of the Hamilton Type Museum. ![]() ![]() I guess a bag of avocados so I could make some guacamole. If I had a present to give you, which would you prefer: a ceramic breast-shaped mug, a Mercedes Benz belt and buckle or a bag of avocados? She gave me the low down on letterpress over a delicious dinner of fake sausage and shell pasta with escarole and raisins. She keeps track of her comings and goings at. ![]() She sells her letterpressed postcards and posters on Etsy, at Permanent Records, at craft fairs nationwide and at No Coast, a muli-use space and studio that has a sincere interest in building on the artistic community in Pilsen with workshops, potlucks, book and record releases and hangouts. ![]()
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