… a small-scale letterpress print-works and hand-lettering studio located in the north Essex market town Saffron Walden.
LetterWork unites alphabetic expression with graphic beauty and combines process with product. As designer-makers we are 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.
The printing engine at the centre of LetterWork‘s studio is a vintage Adana eight five hand operated letterpress affectionately known as Imogen. Our hand-lettering works begin with a sharpened pencil, a straight-edge rule and a clean eraser, and finish with a new Hunt nib filled with Walker’s ink.
At LetterWork we regularly design-and-make letter-based works of art on paper; we also respond to bespoke commissions such as wedding stationary, business cards, and change of address cards; and sell limited edition print runs of greeting cards, postcards, coasters, and seed packets.
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