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November Open House & Art Market
November Open Studio & Art Market!
November Art Market, 12-6, Saturday the 20th!
Open for drop-ins & retail shopping!
Annual online shop clean-up!

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Family-owned letterpress print shop est. 1976. Founded by Maura Shapley, continued by Tess. Shop online on Etsy as DayMoonPress.

Hang tags & business cards for beautiful fabric ar

Hang tags & business cards for beautiful fabric arts from @foodshelterclothing in clean, classic Goudy :)

Makes me think about the old sheepskin my sister & I slept on as babies. They’re in the cedar chest now for safekeeping, still so soft and comforting.

Always a good time to play with the @pipletterpres

Always a good time to play with the @pipletterpress CMYK color stylings ✨ This particular good time was months ago, I’m very behind on offloading my wip recordings, but that’s not the point! The point is, thanks to everyone who supports Partners in Print, and thanks to PiP for supporting printing & printers!!

I’m additionally a big sucker for any color you can describe like a food. Wasabi. Lavender. Edible secondaries. PiP said be free with the design and I said great I would like to be several incompatible flavors of ice cream 💚💜 Chonks of color in wood type and just a little embellishment in lead.

#letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype #woodtype

Nothing better than making particular enclosures f

Nothing better than making particular enclosures for particular objects!! The Platonic ideal of Box. I never got well-lit footage of it but the inner lining in the slipcases is this brilliant emerald green paper lightning-shot with gold.

I also never did find an ID on the drop caps, because they aren’t in any of my type catalogs and I’m notoriously bad at googling. Sorry, the screen is so boring and I give up very quickly. Let me know if these deco-looking Celtic knot reduxes are familiar to you.

#letterpressprinting #handsettype #bookbinding

Reprinted these a bit ago and am simply very behin

Reprinted these a bit ago and am simply very behind on editing wip recordings lately. anyway! there’s a 9x12 version with text on it about “Everybody’s leg hair is cute including Mine”; i printed more of these 4.75x10.75 on reprinting partly because of paper efficiency but honestly also because it’s been a few years since i conceived of this print and back then i was only on the beginning of my No Shaving journey. by now i do not need the words so much anymore, and simply like the look of my legs, which are cute & cool just like everyone’s unshaved legs are.

Both versions up on Etsy ✨

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype #printmaking #linoleumprint #linocut

Handmade cutlery & sharpening from @larson.made ✨✨

Shout out as always to the first lesson my mother's old printer friend Lee Engdahl taught me, metallic underprinters :) This was also my first time getting to print on the Used line from Gmund, and it is so soft & receptive.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting

Going to be @mtbakersummerfestival this Sunday the

Going to be @mtbakersummerfestival this Sunday the 23rd, 10-5, at Hunter Blvd Park! There will be many art vendors, live music, food, kids' activities, etc. I'm taking stock this week and I've got a list of prep tasks which includes:

• reprints of LEG HAIR, a summer inventory necessity :))
• stocking up on mini reloadable journals; do I NEED to go to the fabric store for new patterns, no, will I anyway, yes yes of course
• 🤞 think of me kindly and I may even get a new postcard about CAT RUDENESS finished in time. No promises but I will do my best :)

📣 📣 Getting ready for @tacomawayzgoose this

📣 📣 Getting ready for @tacomawayzgoose this Saturday, 11-4, at the Moore library branch in Tacoma! Steamroller printing, an equipment swap, printing demos at every table, etc etc. I’m only going to be there Saturday BUT it’s open 11-7 on Friday as well 📣📣

Come see everybody and grab one of these shouty guys with a little embossing demo :)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #tacomawayzgoose

I was SO happy to get this project inquiry in my i

I was SO happy to get this project inquiry in my inbox a couple weeks ago :D

Atomic Frontier is making short science documentaries on YouTube and asked if I could put together a small printing project that put the channel name in handset type, with every letter a different face—I said yes of COURSE this a typography crime I will aid & abet, thank you. I do not know when the final video concerning typography will be finished but my personal favorite currently available is “Why typing sucks now” for perhaps obvious reasons and you should check it out to scratch that language & science itch!!

In order: Caslon swash; Trafton; Gravure; Garamond small caps; Nubian; Bernhard Fashion; Tudor Black; Melior; Reporter; Bodoni book italic; News Gothic condensed; Albertus; Della Robbia (original); Bernhard Tango.
(I tried but could not find a place in the visual rhythm for the coolest raddest Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift
:( but I believe it will make an appearance in the final video)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #handsettype #leadtype

@m.d.jenkins :) a pleasure to work with beautiful

@m.d.jenkins :) a pleasure to work with beautiful art as always

Do not look at the floor around the big C&P, I’ve been doing a lot of die cutting lately and it is all oil & scraps down there

Challenge accepted from @wintermoonteahouse :) #l

Challenge accepted from @wintermoonteahouse :)

#letterpress #letterpressprinting

Love is a lot of things, including struggle and te

Love is a lot of things, including struggle and testy communication and dog slobber on your pajamas.

Generous and forgiving friend let me take reference photos for this while she was just trying to live her life and get her dog medicated 💛🖤 It is basically a companion to the Something About the Way I Hold My Teeth print, sort of the nega-verse version. Posi-verse version??

Linoleum + a few hand inked details, Awagami bamboo. 8x10 inches. Edition of 25.

#letterpress #letterpressprinting #printmaking #linocut #linoleumblockprint

New year same weird feelings about teeth #letterp

New year same weird feelings about teeth

#letterpress #linoleumprint #printmaking #linocut

Nearly time to pack up for @thegrocerystudios & @f

Nearly time to pack up for @thegrocerystudios & @freshmochiart pop up sale!! I have kept my personal pledge and finished A Small New Thing every time I’ve taken retail corner out of the shop this season. By now I’ve some very mini illustration prints, some pocket journals, this little trifecta of seasonal comforts :)

Come see @thegrocerystudios gorgeous space for arts and artists, 9th & 10th!! Saturday 6-9, Sunday 2-5 🎉🎉

Task list today: getting the shop ready to host a

Task list today: getting the shop ready to host a couple wonderful local artists in the space for our annual open house & art market! 12-6 this Saturday the 25th, we’re open for your Small Business Saturday art shopping stop with letterpress and book arts goods, plus guests with paintings, fabric arts, ceramics, intaglio, and more!

@beaconartsseattle @maureen_mitchell_studio @klepsydra.art @ikatandme @diana_vergis_vinh @gretchensiegristclay @madartprintstudio @jennybeastie

Happy to work with @marpacconstruction again on th

Happy to work with @marpacconstruction again on this year’s cards! Illustrations printed from beautiful linoleum blocks by @laurennishizaki

Anybody who knows me knows how I feel about red & blue color combos 💙❤️💙

The weather turned out GREAT for us today, come vi

The weather turned out GREAT for us today, come visit this beautiful garden full of art!! 4211 46th Ave S, right next to Genesee Park, until 3 PM 💛💚

I finished a couple new things just in time for this weekend—some perforated journals and a new mini illustration with handset type. Can’t believe that can of neon red ink is still lively but it’s powerful stuff.

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