Back into the printing shed, and preparing for the Dinefwr Literature Festival on 20th to 22nd June. Today I am getting some Shakespeare cards together.
I really like the come-on-get-on-with-make-your-mind-up tone of this quote, when you leave off the final to be!
The cards are laser prints of the letterpress original, machine stitched onto a white card. I have given up trying to get adhesive to behave, so I have reverted to the sewing machine. This old wooden font gives a lovely print.
I have used a big wooden O for the Muse of fire quote. I really like it!
It's also been used for an O brave new world print, still hanging up to dry. And then the fluttering pennants of words draping down for the inspiring once more unto.
That middle E is really showing us its history, I love it.
And then, from As You Like It, all the world's a stage, using four different types of letter.
A couple more to go, and then moving on to Dylan Thomas.
And after that, preparing my own poetry, although I hardly dare admit it, in such exalted company!
The cards are in my Etsy shop, with a few more images, if you'd like to look.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/quarto17