Queen Square Riot 1831

The artist Luke Carter is a friend and one-time cooperative neighbour at Centrespace (before his move to Germany). This original three-colour lino illustration was crafted in his studio and in our printshop and we are very pleased to print a second edition of the work with the addition of a hand-set victorian type and wooden border title.

This print commemorates the working people who formed an uprising to protest the rejection of a reform bill in the House of Lords which would have enabled working men to have a vote. The Queen Square riot, with other protests, led to the formation of the Chartist and Suffragette movements.

The text has been printed on the Albion Press that was made one year after the Riots in 1832. It was bought new by Burleigh Press in Broad Street, Bristol: just a couple of minutes from where it sits now in our printshop. The press would have almost certainly printed stories connected to the riots and the Great Reformation Act of 1832, where working men first got the vote.

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The Chuffed Store collaboration

We loved working with The Chuffed Store and Claire Cartwright on these sets of cards and envelopes. We made a set of peel off stickers to decorate the envelopes. The belly band was printed with small grot condensed wood type with a bit of 14pt Rockwell on the back.

You can buy them from The Chuffed Store lovely stuff.

Letterpress printed publication for the Journeyman project: a bicycle journey from Land’s End to John o’Groats on the printing bike. The book is hand set in Caslon 24pt and includes 12 original lino engravings. Limited edition. Shop.

Limited edition prints for artist Richard Long. Printed on Somerset Velvet using Gill Sans wood type.

Letterpress printed poster inspired by a visit to San Francisco where this message greets you in so many shops, cafés and businesses. Originally from Portland. Free to local businesses.

Printed to mark the publication of Richard King’s book The Lark Ascending. Printed letterpress. Water illustration by Jon McNaught. Shop.

Bristol Old City map printed on 56x38cm sheets of 250gsm Somerset Velvet. The caption is in expanded Egyption founders type. Illustration by Simon Tozer. Shop.

For the Printing Bike project, this book ecords a journey from Bristol to Mainz in Germany on a bicycle with a printing press on the back. Letterpress printed in collaboration with Nomad Press and includes original artworks from a range of artists who took part in the project. Limited Edition. Shop.

A collaborative print with Jeb Loy Nichols and Will Burns. Limited edition. Printed on the Swissproof press in October 2017. Shop.

Wall menu for Bristol’s coffee shop Little Victories, using a letterpress printed alphabet.