New Posts from the St Brigid Press Newsletter:
New Books & Prints from St Brigid Press:
by Arthur Sze
About St Brigid Press:
“Letterpress printing is a communion —
of centuries-old techniques, the sculpted metal and wood letters themselves,
and the daily bread of language.”
Emily Hancock, printer & poet, founder of St Brigid Press in 2012.
St Brigid Press is a letterpress print shop and small press publisher in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia. Emily Hancock is proprietor and printer. We are dedicated to learning, practicing, and passing-on the art and craft of letterpress printing with hand-set type, hand-carved illustrations, foot-powered presses, and hand-sewn books.
We hope you enjoy the items made at the Press as much as we enjoy creating them.
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St Brigid Press was born out of a passion for language:
Emily Hancock has been reading and writing poetry since she was in elementary school, and worked as a bookseller for Stone Soup Books and Cafe in Waynesboro, Virginia, for 6 years. In the Autumn of 2011, that life-long love of classic and contemporary literature began to discover its unique expression through the handcrafts of traditional letterpress printing and bookbinding. As she slowly acquired antique printing presses, type, and equipment, she studied the centuries-old techniques with master printers, through deep reading in the field, and a Winter Residency in Letterpress at Penland School of Crafts.
Since then, Emily has created books, journals, posters, prints, bookmarks, and coasters, saying, “I am enjoying each project in the Shop — it is an honor and a great pleasure to spend my days caring for language, and for the traditional handcrafts that bring the written word forth into being and share it.”
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