On Small Business Saturday, Starshaped Press shares a look at the craft of letterpress printing
Starshaped Press in Ravenswood is part business, part museum.
During this year’s Small Business Saturday, patrons not only perused greeting cards, prints and posters in the studio, but viewed the 100-year-old machines used to create them.
As part of the letterpress printing craft, ink is placed on engraved metal or wood blocks referred to as “type,” which is then pressed on paper. Most impressive in the shop was the electric-powered platen press that is operated in part by spinning a giant rubber wheel. Читать дальше...