About this Product
The joyful color and wild curling tendrils of this Sweet Pea offer barely contained joy and tenderness to the beloved recipient.
Painted Tongue Press
Meet the Maker
Artisan crafted, letterpress printed greeting cards and gifts, created by Kim Vanderheiden, Mitsuko Baum, Bettina Pauly, and Liz McCall. If you'd like to support our studio and receive our new releases, please also check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/KimVanderheide...
How it’s Made
Our process begins by drawing by hand with a crow quill dipping pen and India ink. A crow quill is a metal pen nib with very fin tip,. Sadly, it is not made with an actual crow feather. The drawings are scanned at very high resolution, and a composition is designed from them. Then that composition is separated into the colors we will use on the press, and a film file is created from it. The film is used to create a plate, one plate for each color. The ink is hand mixed and applied to the press. Each card is 2-3 press runs in different colors, letterpress printed on a Heidelberg Windmill, a beautiful antique mechanical printing machine that was made around 1950. The cards are trimmed to size on a manual Chandler & Price guillotine that belonged to the US Army in World War II, and then individually scored with a relatively more contemporary manual tabletop scoring device.
Shop Policies
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