Welcome to Ruby Victoria Letterpress & printmaking

Here you will find photos of all my original hand carved linocut prints and letterpress printing.
A commercial printer by trade a printmaker by choice.
I specialize in original handcarved lino block prints with a bit of letterpress thrown in for good measure.
All printed on antique printing machines with that unmistakable bite into the paper that you can only get with letterpress printing

The work that I do is not created on a computer everything is hand drawn then hand carved out of lino then printed one impression at a time on my tabletop letterpress machine

I do not use polymer which limits me somewhat in regards to type but I love to use traditional methods in my printing that involve handset type and hand carved designs and I think this is what make my work totally Original and Unique to what other people are doing right now and it also meaning everything I make is an original work of art
I love what I do and love to share it with others that are interested

Narelle

Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Ludlow has Landed

So here are the first photos of the Ludlow type caster .
It was delivered here today, crane and all alot of heaving and a couple of swear words and we finally got it into place .

the next phase is to save some more money up to get someone in to service it for me and give me some tips on how to use it safely and correctly we are talking molten lead here baby , so no mucking around.



The ludlow finally home



The book of knowledge

A small part of the draws with matrice for typefaces

top of the machine

side view

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