Colourful Hanging Bird Letterpress Card

Tiger and Fox

£6.50 Delivery included

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    • Order placed
    • 6th May
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    • Dispatched
    • 8th May
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    • Standard delivery
    • 10th - 13th May

Credentials

  • Made in UK
  • Handmade
Description

A beautifully hand printed bird hanging decoration with 'message' card. Send as an alternative greeting card to friends and family for them to hang as a keepsake decoration. Each card is hand letterpress printed then die cut and creased to create the bird decoration. Small holes are added by hand using a Japanese hole punch tool and thread is carefully looped through and knotted. Each card is a little labour of love from hand printing on my treadle printing press (restored from c.1900) to die-cutting, folding and adding string and the message card.

The bird is printed on 270gsm card and the notecard is printed on 350gsm card that is made sustainably in Great Britain. Thread made at Empress Mills, UK. Each piece comes a recycled kraft envelope.

With letterpress printing, each print involves composing the design into a metal chase, known as a form, which is locked into the bed of the press ready to be inked. The form is pressed against the paper, creating a beautiful impression and tactile finish.

Need to know

Card GF Smith Colorplan that is made sustainably in Great Britain.
Thread from Empress Mills, UK.
Bird card size flat. 24.5cm x15cm. Finished size. folded to A6.
Notecard. A6.
Recycled envelope. C6.

Delivery

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Standard delivery: included
Receive it by 10th - 13th May

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Catherine looking at printed cards near printing press.

Tiger and Fox

STamford, Lincolnshire

Hello, I'm Catherine, a designer and printmaker with a love of colour and illustration. After travelling in 2009, I fell in love with the range of letterpress prints I found around the world and soon got to teaching myself the traditional printing process when I returned to the UK. Today, my collection of printing presses, inks and wooden type has grown and I now create a range of paper goods focused on simple colour illustrations and the idea of having fun with paper.