2010 National Stationery Show, Part 3: Letterpress Love

If you like stationery, you know about letterpress, unless you've been living under a rock the past few years. Letterpress creates a magnificent "relief" texture on cardstock that paper geeks like me can't get enough of. It continues to be a hit year after year at the Stationery Show. Here are some of my favorites from this year's show:

Maginating Letterpress & Design (Booth 1962). Never seen this shop before- I really like their work.


Lucky Bee Press, part of the 5-shop collaborative Let Her Press (Booth 1555). Even the booth presentation is beautiful...I love the shimmering walls.


EggPress (Booth 1537). This has been one of my favorite letterpress shops ever since my first stationery show in 2007. When I was in the booth, a buyer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art was checking them out!


Tiselle (Booth 2063). Another gorgeous display, and sumptious cardstock and letterpress texture that I can't stop touching (are you with me, fellow paperphiles?) Terrific press kits/samples, too.




Smock (Booth 2241). Another old favorite of mine- I love their extra-thick, eco-friendly cardstock. And this red and blue palette- which I haven't seen them use before.

Fine Day Press (Booth 2151). I love these folksy "Euro Cards" with colorful hand-done type (you know what? I don't think these are actually letterpress but I love them so I'm keeping them here).

Ladies of Letterpress (Booth 2258). I was impressed by this booth featuring the work of 8 (out of 500) woman-run letterpress companies.



Ladies of Letterpress included May Day Studio....


...and Ink and Iron (again, I hope I am crediting the right cards with the right letterpress shop)


I know there are fellow letterpress fanatics reading this...which shops do you like?

p.s. I have more to show you from the Stationery Show, including "green" products, satirical cards, and random stuff that looked pretty, or funny, or just share-able. Stay tuned over the next week....