Friday, March 2, 2012

wood type in Australia


this image blatantly filched from the website of Sylvan Type Works of Nicholas Summers of Plum Letterpress in New South Wales, with occasional help from Sue Anderson of Impediment Press - Sylvan Type Works can provide wood type -


Manufactured using traditional and modern methods and materials.
New typefaces, historical revivals and exploratory projects.
Complete founts, missing characters and replacement sorts.
Specimens and occasional publications issued.


(this news came from Jurgen Wegner's Brandywine Newsletter (about printing, printed ephemera, type, books etc. . . to be on Jurgen's mailing list email him here