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Edition No. 12 — Tide Tables
Two colours, 32 pages, hand-stitched. Read the full print spec.
Read
03Margin Notes — the letter A fortnightly note on paper, ink and small-press work.
Each issue is one page: what came off the press, what jammed, and a short reading list. No sponsors and no link roundups.
Field journal: press diary Longer entries on registration drift, drums and difficult stock.
Written for anyone who owns or borrows a riso. Every entry keeps the misprints in, because the misprints are where the settings come from.
Back issues index Every edition since No. 1, listed with its print specs.
Ink pair, stock, weight, run length and page count for each issue — useful if you want to reproduce a look on your own press.
Studio & shop
04Small-run shop Hand-stitched notebooks, two-colour prints, offcut bundles.
Stock is listed by batch, so sizes and cover stocks shift a little between runs. Offcut bundles are whatever the shear leaves behind that month.
Commission a short run 25–300 copies, two colours, folded and stitched here.
Bring finished artwork or a rough idea and we work back from the page count. Zines, catalogues, poetry pamphlets and score copies all fit the press.
Paper & ink library Every stock kept in the studio, with weights and ink behaviour.
Which papers hold a fluorescent, which ones ghost on the reverse, and the drum colours currently loaded. Worth reading before you send artwork.
Where the work is stocked Independent bookshops and the print fairs I carry a table at.
A deliberately short list. Shops hold the notebooks and prints between batches; fairs are where the misprints and proofs turn up.
Learn & listen
03Bookbinding evenings Three hours, six benches, every tool provided.
You leave with one sewn notebook and a pattern you can repeat at a kitchen table. No experience needed; left-handed benches available.
Studio radio: press-day mix Slow, long-form listening for folding and stitching.
Two hours of mostly instrumental recordings, rebuilt whenever the current mix wears out. It runs from the first plate to the last fold.
Open studio hours When the door is open and the press is actually running.
Come and watch a run, handle the paper stocks, or ask what an ink does before you commit to it. Nothing to book and nothing to buy.
Featured edition
Edition No. 12 — Tide Tables
A year of notes made at the water's edge: timings, weather and the marks the press left on paper that never quite dried flat. The orange runs first and dries slowly, so every copy sits a little differently.
- Format
- 140 × 200 mm, portrait
- Extent
- 32 pages plus a wrap cover
- Two-colour riso — fluorescent orange and deep navy
- Paper
- 120 gsm cream text, 250 gsm uncoated cover
- Binding
- Three-hole pamphlet stitch, waxed linen thread
- Run
- 180 copies, numbered by hand