[image description: 9 photos of an 8x11 inch letterpress printed broadside with an illustrated borde

[image description: 9 photos of an 8x11 inch letterpress printed broadside with an illustrated border, the handset formes of type, and the relief plate used to print it. The wide border is densely decorated with leaves and flowers, birds, ugly angel babies, weird beak-y fish-things; the text inside is set justified to occupy an even rectangle just inside the border. Set in several fonts, all-caps: “Well I will say pretty fucking clever of em to figure out that the fastest way to make any given uncomfy situation not at all their fault is to call some other party a liar about it! Credit where it’s due, that sure is the express lane to a guilt-free life. But I do have to ask, are they road-legal, lead-footing the pedal with those extra large clown shoes on? Do they feel safe in there, making their shitty steel torpedo of a defense mechanism somebody else’s manslaughter problem? Honk honk goof troop, concrete shoes don’t make up for having the spinal integrity of the average cooked tube of rigatoni. On the upside: one, at this point they are surely uninterested in changing course, and two: eventually, they are going to run out of land.” border and text in black, with a drop cap & small extra decorations around the type printed in safety green. photos of the type forme show how each letter of type is individually spaced to spread across even line lengths, and the plates are, at least on the surface, copper. end description.]Etsy : wipBelligerent Affirmations all originate as text messages i’ve sent a particular friend when they needed some—shout-y validation. (with permission) i like to make physical copies of a few of them, the ones that might be useful to someone else without prescriptive context. i’m not totally sure this one is? useful to anyone else, i mean. But I’ve been surprised before by how open to interpretation they can be, and by how common the experiences are, so there’s a few copies available!unfortunately i do not know a lot about the original use of this border; i know our plates came to us via Frank McCaffrey, who got electroplated copies of several borders like this from George W. Jones’ collection in England in 1931. I can date the design of another border in the group to the 1550s, but i don’t know about this specific one. They’ve been ripped off their mounting and the insides are hacksawed out, i guess so that you can set type inside them which—okay?? i wouldn’t recommend it seeing as they’re hacksawed and unmounted. It took a lot of work with the SP15 rollers to get it to print relatively clean & even, with the way it’s torqued, and it would not be fun to also have good type in there.the secret sauce on the green color is a 30 year old can of fluorescent yellow :)) absolute nightmare trying to get anything workable out from under the skin, but stick it in front of the space heater for a sec and it’s good as new.**it is not actually, it’s fumey when it’s hot and it’s got hickeys in it but it SURE is still fluorescentfonts: Eden bold, Alternate Gothics 51 & 77, Bernhard Gothic Medium, & Devinne. -- source link

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