A two-room workshop for short runs that deserve the extra week.
We set metal and polymer type, print on two flatbed proof presses, and bind by hand. Runs are typically between forty and six hundred copies. We are slow on purpose and we will tell you honestly when offset would serve you better.
What we take on
Pamphlets and chapbooks, exhibition monographs, concert and wedding stationery, memorial booklets, labels for small producers, and repair or rebinding of family volumes.
We do not do large commercial runs, and we no longer take on foil work.
Typical job
- Run length
- 40 – 600
- Sheet
- up to 380 × 520 mm
- Colours
- 1 – 3, hand mixed
- Papers
- mould-made, cotton, laid
- Binding
- sewn, pamphlet, case
- Lead time
- 4 – 9 weeks
Recent from the shop
- Field guide to the lower valley — 320 copies, sewnAug 2026
- Chamber series programmes — 6 issuesJun 2026
- Rebinding, 1911 atlas, quarter leatherApr 2026
- Cider house labels — three coloursFeb 2026
- Memorial booklet — 90 copies, laid paperNov 2025
They set the whole thing twice because the first proof read badly at the gutter. Nobody asked them to. That is the entire reason we keep coming back.
Visit
The workshop is open to callers on Thursdays and Fridays, 10–16.Other days by arrangement — we are usually at the press and slow to the door.
Yard entrance, second door past the joinery.