Yesterday I made a post on my personal weblog detailing the process of a recently completed project, converting an old letterpress type tray into a wall-mounted display for jewellery. You can check it out at this link: Letterpress Tray Jewellery Display
Last week we reassembled a hundred-year-old Chandler & Price bench cutter that has been sitting in pieces in our basement for a few years now, just waiting for some love, rust paint and a bit of oil to bring it back to working condition. I put one of the blades in it a few days ago and was delighted to find that it’s still perfectly sharp. No more trimming books by hand in the Levigator Press studio!
Here is a little video of the first cuts. I’m a little excited about it.
I am pleased to announce that as of February 1st 2013 I will be joining the fine folks at Back Room Gallery Artists Co-op. Back Room is a lovely little gallery located in the Pillette Village neighbourhood of Windsor, located at 4749 Wyandotte St. E. It’s a place where I can show and sell my work and get out of the studio on occasion to work gallery shifts, but even more exciting is that I will be able to use the large, bright gallery space to host events and workshops. Look for a series of bookbinding and printmaking workshops for spring 2013 to be announced soon!
In preparation for the Made in Windsor Holiday Sale, the Levigator Press studio is filled with freshly block printed fabrics for making our bandannas and cowl scarves. Several hours’ worth of printing on Sunday are crowded together four pieces to a hanger in order to get them all dry in our tiny working space.
Check out this post on the Made in Windsor weblog to see a few images of the printed goods we’ll have at the show.
Levigator Press will be part of the Made in Windsor Holiday Sale on November 16th and 17th. This year it’s happening at the Walkerville Brewery building as part of the Walkerville neighbourhood holiday walk event. Get all of the details at the Made in Windsor website, here: Made in Windsor. There will be live music and beer, and it’s going to be a fun time!
We will be focusing on hand woodblock printed accessories and clothing like those in our Greenwears shop, but will have all of your favourite Levigator Press pocket notes there as well.
Levigator Press is a one-woman printmaking, bookbinding and clothing production studio located in the Walkerville neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We use antiquated hand printing techniques (mostly woodblock printing, but also letterpress, screenprinting and others) to produce one-of-a-kind hand bound journals and handmade accessories and clothing using reclaimed and repurposed materials.
We’ve created this site to separate out the studio business from our personal website, and to provide updates about what’s happening in the studio in a place where you won’t have to wade through piles of photos of breakfast and cats and silly things we see downtown in order to fulfill all of your Levigator Press needs. Whew! If you really want to see photos of breakfast, cats and silly things seen downtown, please feel free to continue following the personal weblog: Jodi’s Weblog.
Please excuse the ugliness of the site while we muddle our way through a new wordpress installation and a new design and all of that. We just couldn’t wait until it was all lovely and perfect to start bringing you the Levigator Press.
To check out our products in the meantime, please visit our stores by clicking on the links below!
LEVIGATOR PRESS Etsy shop, where you will find our hand bound journals and notebooks as well as original prints and drawings
GREENWEARS Etsy shop, where you will find our hand printed clothing and accessories
LA VIANDE ROSE, our Printfection store where you will find our t-shirt designs
If you are a fan of Levigator Press and social media, “like” us on Facebook! Levigator Press Facebook Page
If you want to get your Levigator Press updates in smaller chunks, you can follow me on twitter: Jodilicious twitter (WARNING: this is my personal twitter feed. HERE BE SWEARS!)
If you only care about breakfast and cat pictures, our personal tumblr will probably be more to your liking: The Levigator