'LOVE' Letterpress Bird

A beautifully hand letterpress printed hanging bird decoration with 'Love' notecard. Send as an alternative Valentines card to hang as a keepsake decoration. Each card is hand letterpress printed with black ink, 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 decoration comes with a 'Love' notecard to write your own message.

The bird is printed on 250gsm Coffee Inclusion card – a 100% recycled card using post consumer waste (although 5% is actual coffee) and the notecard is printed on 300gsm Wild card produced with 35% cotton. 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.