Another semi-random purchase on ebay, this time ‘10 kilos of mixed type - usable’, plus some rather dinky little type boxes donated very kindly ‘if we picked them up’.
Some of it arrived slightly, er, jumbled. Cue sorting.
But worth a bit of manual labour because we’ve been desperate to get our miniature Adana press (purchased in the summer) up-and-running.
Quite tough hand sorting eight-point metal type. Only for those with tiny fingers.
Here’s a bit of old-school composition.
There’s that messy ink stuff again.
And a bit of hand printing on the press.
We seem to have a few registration issues at the moment. Need to fix that.
And a quick joke for fun.
Marvellous.
Wedding and party invites coming soon, as long as you don't mind the occasional upside down letter and slightly over-generous word spacing.
Thanks to Gen Harrison at Robert Smail's Printing Works 9 High Street, Inerleithen, EH44 6HA for the donated type.