After the book fair, I followed up a few websites and so on, and am currently addicted to Sarah Bryant's site, or more particularly to her blog. It's so practical and book artsy and fascinating, and besides, it alerted me to the fact that Shepherds Falkiners have japanese screw punches back in stock, and pointed me in the direction of a few other suppliers where I can waste my money. Not waste, obviously not waste, but get through it nonetheless.
And re-alerted me to the new London Centre for Book Arts. Tempted though I am to start a bit of a moaning rant about the London-centricity of just about everything in the WORLD, I shall resist that temptation and instead just copy in this:
And re-alerted me to the new London Centre for Book Arts. Tempted though I am to start a bit of a moaning rant about the London-centricity of just about everything in the WORLD, I shall resist that temptation and instead just copy in this:
These are, I discovered from Sarah's blog, jigs for setting letterpress on the curve. If I could learn to print in curves, that would be something worth the inevitable frustration of it all.
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