We are a two-person workshop setting metal and polymer type by hand. Most of what leaves the studio is an edition of fewer than three hundred copies — poetry chapbooks, exhibition notes, menus that get fingerprints on them, and the occasional stubborn rebind.
A poetry sequence in two colours on mould-made Zerkall, sewn in a long-stitch cover with an exposed spine. Set in 12pt Caslon over four weeks.
Pressure prints from pressed leaves, paired with a botanist's marginal notes. Each copy differs slightly; the plates were re-inked by hand between pulls.
A folded broadside for a neighbourhood grocer, printed on reclaimed cover stock. Our most-handled piece and the one we are quietly proudest of.
The press is a 1962 Heidelberg windmill that arrived in pieces and took most of a summer to put right. Beside it sits a proofing press for pulling trials, two cases of foundry type, and a guillotine older than either of us.
We print on cotton and mould-made papers, usually dampened overnight so the type bites properly. Inks are mixed to order from a small palette; we keep the swatch book from every job so a reprint matches.
Binding happens at the other end of the room: hand-sewn signatures, cloth and paper cases, and flat-back accounts ledgers for a handful of long-standing clients. Nothing is glued that could be sewn instead.
Visitors are welcome by arrangement. Mornings are quieter — by three in the afternoon the windmill is usually running and conversation stops being practical.
Tell us the page count, the paper you have in mind and roughly when you need it — we will reply with a quote and an honest date. Write to studio@ar.rasssvet.online.