www.LetterWork.co.uk

… a small-scale letterpress print-works near the north Essex market town Saffron Walden.

LetterWork unites alphabetic expression with graphic beauty and combines process with product.

The print engines at the centre of the LetterWork studio are two vintage Adana hand-operated presses – an Eight-Five known as Imogen, and a QH called Anne (named after the two women who owned the presses before me). Letterpress designs are created using vintage lead type and advertising image blocks.

My ethos is to tread lightly on the earth, to care for nature and minimise harm. Letterpress and hand-lettering processes use no electricity; the papers I use are handmade in the UK; the inks as vegetable based; the vintage lead type and image blocks originate from historic print works. No computers are used in the making of LetterWork products!

As a designer-maker I am inspired by the natural world, the people, the art, architecture and music of our place – a little patch of Eastern England, which changes everyday yet is wholly timeless.

A few words about Copyright

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