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By Brian Smith , July 1, 2014

WoodType forme

This is a woodtype forme that me made some years ago and printed 10 images from, we actually forgot about them but stumbled accros the pictures whilst assembling our Facebook page. They are available for saleat our woks here at Cedar Farm...

By Brian Smith , July 1, 2014

Poem…

This poem was written especially for 2 peope who fell in love whilst playing rugby, we designed and printed this on 100% cotton paper (Cranes Lettra) and 160gsm Goatskin Parchment...

By Brian Smith , June 28, 2014

Wedding Stationery Galleries

During the week we have been busy letterpress printing save the date cards in 2 colours and a deboss, but we are unable to publish pictures yet. We have an extensive selection for you to look at in our weddding stationery galleries which are being added to all the time. Just click <HERE> to go to them....

By Brian Smith , June 21, 2014

A touch of Kipling…

This Kipling verse was hand set 18pt Bembo with 72pt Bodini Ultra Extended Headline, then printed on the Arab Treadle Press, it is available as a card limited edition of 10   ...

By Brian Smith , June 21, 2014

Claire’s 21st Birthday present…

Last week we printed a Life Poster for Claire, on Goatskin Parchment, we printed this in 2 colours on our Arab Treadle Press...

By Brian Smith , June 15, 2014

Life Poster

We designed and printed this life poster digitally on 180sm Vellum Goatskin Parchment for a Special Birthday Gift...

By Brian Smith , June 14, 2014

Open Afternoon…

Thanks to everyone who came to our Letterpress Open Afternoon especially Matt Reid-Jones and his wife and Ken Burnley our Letterpress guru, we had a good time casting type on our Linotype Machine; hot foil blocking and letterpress printing on our Arab Treadle press, Look out for our ext one they are completely FREE! ...

By Brian Smith , June 6, 2014

Open Afternoon 7th June

Dont forget our Open Studio tomorrow afternoon from 12 till 4 its completely free. Try your hand at printing on our Adana hand press, Arab treadle press or even Hot Foil on our bench foiler. Also see our linecasting "linotype"  machine working. We printed the poster below on the Arab Treadle this week for our good friend Mavis ...

By Brian Smith , June 2, 2014

Table Plan and notices

This table plan was designed and produced by us for the wedding of Lyndsey and Fred who recently got married. You can see their full gallery by clicking HERE ...

By Brian Smith , June 1, 2014

Roy Greason calls…

  Pictures of our old Thompson Gem Guillutine outside of our works here at Cedar Farm The pictures were taken by ex printer Roy Greason who just popped into our works for a chat last week. Thank you Roy ...