The Wallflowers Press studio provides plenty of room to think, work and play with letterpress and bookmaking. The location is convenient (with easy access to I-95) and ideal for taking a workshop to learn the basics or for renting studio time and equipment to produce your own projects.
Wallflowers Press studio
We still are not in our studio space in a way we can work even though much of our equipment is there. The hold up seems to be with the New Castle County holding the Certificate of Occupancy hostage. Ah, one more reason to dislike government. Getting the CO has to be close, but apparently there are issues with finishing the parking lot and planting the appropriate number of trees and shrubs. And now it is December when both of those issues are hard to fulfill. It may be spring for all we know.
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Wallflowers Press is leasing a 1,000 square foot space on Old Ogletown Road just past Finley's Art Shoppe in Newark, Delaware.
Our space
We ARE NOT in our new space yet. We should be moving in sometime in November, but here is where the ink happens.
Equipment inventory
Our equipment inventory as of August 10, 2007 includes:
R. Hoe & Co. iron handpress
25" x 38" platen size
Serial Number: 5331 (1869)
Vandercook Universal III with automatic paper delivery
18.75" x 28" paper size, 18" x 24" image area
Serial Number: 28690 (1970)
Vandercook SP-15 (handcranked)
14.75" x 20" paper size, 14" x 18" image area
Serial Number: 26817 (1967)
Chandler & Price 10 x 15 Old Style platen press (shown above motorized)
Serial Number: C7123 (1912)
Chandler & Price 8 x 12 Old Style platen press (operated by foot treadle)
Serial Number: ---- (----)
2 Chandler & Price Pilots and several smaller tabletop presses
plus a 20" computer-controlled electric paper cutter and a variety of other accessories.
Our current type inventory includes a range of wood type and approximately 150 cases of metal foundry type with a nice run of Melior.
The studio also has a nice collection of books for inspiration and information on printing and bookbinding as well as a collection of printing samples that range across incunabula, Hatch Show Prints, and work representing a number of other contemporary letterpress studios that we try to actively collect.
