The Wallflowers Press studio provides plenty of room to think, work and play with letterpress and bookmaking. The location is convenient (with easy access to I-95) and ideal for taking a workshop to learn the basics or for renting studio time and equipment to produce your own projects.
Lead Graffiti / Wallflowers Press studio
Wallflowers Press has leased a 2,150 square foot space on Sandy Road in the Sandy Brae Industrial Park. It is about 3.5 miles from our home, on our side of town which will make driving or biking there quite easy. See the map below.
Vandercook Universal III with automatic paper delivery
18.75" x 28" paper size, 18" x 24" image area
Serial Number: 28690 (1970)
Vandercook SP-15 (handcranked)
14.75" x 20" paper size, 14" x 18" image area
Serial Number: 26817 (1967)
PLATEN PRESSES
Chandler & Price 10 x 15 Old Style platen press (shown above motorized)
Serial Number: C7123 (1912)
Chandler & Price 8 x 12 Old Style platen press (operated by foot treadle)
Serial Number: ---- (----)
Samson 10 x 15 (recently acquired and not yet ready for printing)
Golding -- x -- (recently acquired and not yet ready for printing)
TABLE PRESSES
2 Chandler & Price Pilots and several smaller tabletop presses
OTHER
20" computer-controlled electric paper cutter and a variety of other accessories.
24" Rosback perforator
Our current type inventory includes a range of wood type and approximately 400 cases of metal foundry type with a nice run of Melior.
The studio also has a nice collection of books for inspiration and information on printing and bookbinding as well as a collection of printing samples that range across incunabula, Hatch Show Prints, and work representing a number of other contemporary letterpress studios that we try to actively collect.
