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00:00the UK has long been a world leader in heritage crafts from stained glass design to wood carving
00:20from silversmithing to wheel writing these skills have been kept alive by a dedicated few
00:27we've championed not only their historical significance but their enduring worth but with
00:34fewer students taking up these skills and a limited number of masters around to pass on
00:39their knowledge there's a risk that these crafts will be lost forever so in this series we've
00:45invited 12 dedicated junior crafters who are starting out on their crafting journeys hoping
00:52to specialize in stone carving mosaic making blacksmithing and the craft that changed the world
01:02letterpress printing each week they'll take part in a unique masterclass mentored by a world leader in
01:12their craft to help maintain the traditions of crafting excellence and help keep our heritage
01:18crafts alive this week's masterclass is taught by two crafters at the top of their game put the
01:28pencils down and start getting inky I think that's the way to go and I also take eye-opening trips
01:37back in time through Britain's past witnessing how the masters of old created our rich cultural heritage
01:43so welcome to master crafters the next generation our three junior crafters have come to cambridgeshire to
02:02further explore their passion for lettering and design hello with a background in engineering
02:09flori enjoys marrying her two loves heavy machinery and fine art I think the thing I'm most excited
02:16about is using a new press because I love machinery a student of graphic communication design Nayab is a
02:23lifelong enthusiast for the written word I'm feeling very excited about today it'll be really great to
02:30learn from masters of their craft and although a newcomer to the craft James is drawn to the physical
02:37process of letterpress printing well there's two things I'm looking forward to which is using the
02:43new type and learning hopefully a new process that I haven't done before welcome welcome James Nayab
02:51Flori to master crafters to the barn of dreams as I call it or the shed of excellence I know that you
02:58all have varying degrees of letterpress skill experience expertise but today we've got a bit
03:06of a special surprise for you because your masterclass is going to be taken by not one master crafter but
03:13two one of them is a renowned figure in the world of letterpress and has single-handedly preserved
03:21Bristol's letterpress heritage and the other is his right-hand woman and she has combined all of her
03:31fine art expertise with the technical prowess of the machines themselves together they are a formidable
03:38letterpress duo so let's go and meet Nick Hand and Ellen Bills follow me
03:51good morning crafters these are your masters this is Nick and Ellen and they'll be talking
03:59you through the challenge today over to you guys morning Nick Hand flirted with the world of letterpress
04:10as an art student back in the 70s but he went on to have a long career as a typographer and graphic designer
04:1715 years ago he wanted a change I realized that I just didn't like sitting my computer day after day did
04:30my head in so I went on a big bike ride cycled around the coast of Britain and Ireland and I met weavers
04:40carpenters spinners inspirational people I realized that I wanted to go back to a kind of simpler way of
04:50doing things and using my head and my hands a little more and that was when I started thinking about
04:58letterpress again and finding my way back into it Nick became such a devotee he started rescuing historic
05:09letterpresses and lovingly bringing them back to life in Bristol I've been the 11 years in this space lots
05:19of machines and type find their way to me feels like a responsibility ten years ago he was joined in his
05:30quest to preserve the presses by graphic designer and technician Ellen Bills growing up I was always
05:38making things with my hands my subjects at school with woodwork metalwork are anything that involved
05:46being able to move around the room and not sit still for very long together they run the letterpress
05:51collective I was really drawn to letterpress working with your hands working with your head having fun with
06:04making stuff the kind of organic creative nature of it their tactile designs blend tradition with
06:16modernity and range from posters to books to works of art they collaborate with artists and writers as well as
06:26colleges and libraries that thing of just losing yourself in the print it's like a meditative state
06:33isn't it yeah when you're really in the zone there's nothing better than just such a lovely thing and that
06:39never goes away as someone who's keen to learn more about this important craft I was delighted to accept their
06:48invitation to Bristol this is where Nick and Ellen at their studio at the height of the craft there were 72 letterpress studios in Bristol alone but now it's thought that there's fewer than 20 fully working letterpress workshops in the whole of the UK
07:07so the work that Nick and Ellen do is vital to keeping this important legacy
07:12hey Nick and Ellen how you doing hey we're good great letterpress printing has persisted over many many
07:27centuries but obviously it's being superseded by automation digitization what is it about it that you love
07:34it's kind of slow that you can really think about things and we're both very dyslexic and we've always
07:40struggled with letters and words but when you're holding something physical it kind of all makes sense and I
07:46feel like that's a lot of people with craft that they might not be very good academically but if you give
07:50them something their brain and their hands can combine together hmm and I suppose with letterpress printing
07:56everything's back to front yeah upside down it doesn't matter to us it makes sense makes sense yeah
08:04the process of letterpress printing hasn't changed for hundreds of years in the most simple terms you
08:12choose your type lay it backwards in a frame and space it out before inking it and applying pressure to
08:22make a print keen to try my hand at it Nick and Ellen have helped me by laying out the lyrics of a
08:31classic Bristolian folk song by edge Cutler we're gonna get you to set the last line oh these got them
08:38that's all we need all right let's do it so we'll start with an oh so where do you put that up here
08:44yep okay and then an H I think an oh and then the yeah well they got another e mm-hmm the yeah yeah
08:57and then the n I suppose is like that yeah okay nice right I've been instructed that rolling the ink
09:09will help it to go on evenly okay it's looking good the next step is to print and I'm being allowed
09:21to use this wonderful printing press dating from 1832 it's a beautiful thing is a beautiful press an
09:29album press and it was originally from just two streets away so it's moved about 300 yards in 200
09:37years yeah yeah so amazing piece of kit wheeling in this handle is lining the paper up with the
09:46pressure plate stop it's a lovely mechanism isn't it it's nice yeah something that's made in 1832
09:53and it's still got this lovely feel to it and then at some point something happened yeah keep going
10:04yeah and this handle forces pressure onto the plate to hopefully get a clean impression
10:10oh what do you think that's great oh he's gotten where they cussent back nascent he's gotten in a
10:24fine old mess somehow he's never ought to stuck in there doesn't well what was gonna do about it now
10:31I mean that's just says it all doesn't it bar to Bristol it is so here we go this is my first print
10:39very happy with that back at the barn our three juniors are eager to start their masterclass today
10:55your challenge is to produce a letterpress poster using all the old techniques and machines and
11:00equipment that we've brought with us as well as new modern processes and I'd like you think about
11:07the design element of it and what I'd really like is something of yourself coming through the work just
11:14something that you're excited about at the end of the day try not to worry about the mistakes you
11:18make because quite often you'll have a set thing in mind and then you come to print it and you realize
11:23it's actually looks nothing like I thought it was gonna look like but you might accidentally find
11:27something that you would never ever thought of how do you feel about this today and what you're gonna
11:32do I've never actually used this type of press so I think it's gonna be a big steep learning curve but
11:37yeah I'm ready for it good our masters have brought an array of ink and type to incorporate into the
11:47juniors designs we call this a form now I'm gonna put some magnets on just to hold it but it's some wood type it's boxwood really
11:57beautiful and I've put some spacing in the letters so with wood type you do sometimes have to create spacing by
12:04using leading which is the same height as the type Nick is demonstrating the technique of overlay
12:12so yeah that's great you can see that the inks are quite transparent naturally so you get this kind
12:26of cross of color which is nice it's another thing to think about when you're coming to do your prints
12:30their approach is about bringing personality and innovative techniques to an old craft
12:37we're gonna add texture so you can you will see this board thought it'd be really nice to give a
12:44sort of another depth to a poster so I'm using these magnets they're holding
12:53oh yeah it's here it's really sort of picks up all the little fine bits of texture this is
13:20something that I printed earlier God sound like B Peter but it's got a fold in it and I'm just trying
13:25to play with folds and how you could possibly create something totally different
13:31you can see it's created a very clear edge there and then also if you wanted to use it on the
13:50other side if you by folding the paper you can create different shapes so you can see we bought
13:55lots of different bits with textures there's cork there's cardboard so with the cardboard you can
13:59tear the top layer off and use the core to get built these kind of looks like that when you print it
14:04but it's a really nice way of creating textures hmm so there's loads of ideas there and there lots to
14:10be getting on with yeah so good luck
14:25okay junior crafters you have five hours to complete this challenge for the first 20 minutes I reckon think
14:33about your design and maybe have a look at the fonts you might use so good luck letterpress technology was
14:46invented 600 years ago in Germany by Johannes Gutenberg his mechanical method of printing movable type led to a
14:55huge rise in literacy and thus an information revolution across Europe soon printing presses were
15:03popping up all over the place democratizing the printed word and William Caxton set up the first
15:09press in the UK which printed Chaucer's Canterbury tales but modern technology has put letterpress printing
15:18on the heritage crafts red list so it's crucial for the next generation to learn the techniques of the
15:27original masters all right James says again not too bad what my prints going to be about is my
15:35hatred for the color yellow oh I have no idea why it's happened but I I can't stand the color yellow so I'm
15:44going to try and encapsulate that so kind of an obvious question what color you can do it in I
15:49might use yellow just to see how that turns out hmm sounds good graphic design student James is 19 and
16:01enjoyed crafts from a young age today is excited by the visual language of the world around him I found
16:11that art gave me an experience to get my feelings out there and express my creativity I'd really enjoy
16:20more hands-on rather than digital methods of design it gives me satisfaction inspired by what is often
16:28overlooked he recently discovered the world of letterpress printing I just fell in love with it I want to
16:36eventually go to a design studio and collaborate with other graphic designers because letterpress it's
16:43not used as much anymore and I want to get it in the graphic design world
16:47by now I'll pose again yeah it's going well I really wanted to play around like text and embracing mistakes
17:02and like making mistakes so that's what my piece is about and then using like punctuation for the I and having
17:10like different letters the other way around play with the nature of the word yeah I think it can be very exciting
17:1719 year old Nayar has always been fascinated by text in all its forms
17:24I was always quite a creative kid always drawing or painting at 13 years old I was looking at calligraphers
17:36hand lettering artists online how they're writing beautiful script I found myself sat in my room
17:43countless hours just practicing one stroke I just fell in love with it drawing on her childhood and her
17:50heritage she's inspired by both Western and Arabic calligraphy another script in another language just
17:58really fascinated me later on I discovered letterpress and driven by her inspirations she hopes to carve out a
18:11career in this craft hey how's it going yeah not too badly being an engineer as my background I am
18:21not very good with letters but I do love numbers I've changed that to hate because it's a bit more emotive
18:27and probably a bit more realistic and I really like what you said about folding the paper so I think I'll
18:34try and fold it and have maybe a couple of different colors like here and here yep and then flip it
18:39on the ground and then put my writing over the top oh that'd be nice
18:4731 year old wedding stationer and calligrapher Flory gave up her childhood love of art for a career as an engineer in the
18:54space industry I was testing satellites before they were launched
18:59it was really good fun unfortunately I had to leave my job because a sudden neurological disease so two
19:10years ago I decided to follow my passion and set up my business creating invitations signage menus
19:20Flory creates her designs digitally and prints them using her own automated letterpress
19:29with the machine that I've got it merges heavy machinery and art which I just think is fantastic
19:37Nick Lennon you've had a chance to have a look at the crafters and their designs what do you think of them just initially
19:50yeah I think they're all pretty strong me and James were chatting about his hate for yellow but also how he's going to incorporate that into his piece and he was thinking about maybe printing it on a yellow piece of paper and we talked about if you just print on a yellow piece of paper it's a bit tame whereas if he really goes for it
19:57it kind of shows his real hatred for the for the color the anger will come through exactly yeah yeah Flory's prints but uses polymer plates which is a different way of printing right so using these kind of more traditional techniques is going to be a bit of a challenge for her but in a good way I think Naab's got the most
20:27playful element but maybe she's got the most work cut out for her it could be the most exciting at the same time
20:32hmm
20:39to offer our juniors some more insights we wanted them to try their hand at another form of printing
20:46so earlier in the month we sent them to Wales to meet musician and lino printing artist Jeb Loy Nichols
20:52it's always good to do some lino cutting with letterpress people because the two things work
21:03very well together obviously they're both relief printing and I think that they'll bring in that
21:08sense of design putting things on a page in a certain way that makes the eye happy
21:16with lino printing you literally cut the design into a piece of lino block
21:24Jeb has been honing his art for 40 years and specializes in portraits of musicians
21:32doing portraits with lino really connected me with a way of looking at faces and trying to pull them back
21:40from being literal transcriptions of physiology you reduce things to shapes so that you're not looking
21:47at at line particularly you're looking at the way that shape sits on that shape making something more poetic
21:54jeb has asked the juniors to bring a photo of a person who means a lot to them so they can sketch their portrait
22:06really trying to figure out what it is about the pictures that that resonate with each of you and then
22:13try to simplify those things down naab is drawing her art teacher james is drawing his partner
22:24the drawing onto the lino by rubbing on the back of the paper so the pencil marks are transferred onto
22:39the block it just looks really strange reversed the first thing we have to do is decide what's black
22:47and what's white so anything that we cut away is going to be white and anything that's left there is
22:52going to be black which bits would you recommend sort of leaving out and cutting out you want to
22:57leave all this and then start cutting inside here and leaving these highlights and then you'll be
23:03cutting out her face and leaving the eyebrows you're doing the same thing and like letterpress lino
23:11printing is all about thinking in reverse you're going the opposite way you're cutting this all out here
23:18leaving the hair and then cutting it out this and leaving the eyes and the eyebrows and the nose let's start cutting
23:27so do you think this bit cut out i think all of that's black oh all of it okay
23:47that asymmetrical shape is lovely
23:50so we're all finished cutting here it's a lovely block
23:59really nice bit of text there thank you
24:03i've never met your grandmother and i feel like i know her
24:08every time i call back for prints i never know exactly what i'm going to get
24:12that's what keeps it fresh and exciting it's always a surprise at the end
24:24lovely i really enjoy the way that it's come out especially with these grainy parts
24:29this frame here is beautiful and the mouth is great
24:32very nice i really like how the text turned out yeah just the way it flows across the bottom of
24:46that page is absolutely beautiful shall we go for it yeah let's do it
24:54oh she's looking good she won't design me just yet then
24:59this is such a classic elegant print
25:06back in the barn now the juniors have completed their poster designs the next step is to choose their fonts
25:16these hundred year old wooden typefaces are from nick and ellen's huge collection
25:23which they rescued from the scrappy and are now safe for future generations to learn the art of
25:29letterpress printing
25:40our three junior crafters have five hours to design and print a poster using the heritage craft of
25:47letterpress to get their message across
25:52when it came to selecting my fonts i did see this sort of gothic one and i thought yeah that looks like
25:58a bit of fun and you've chosen some modular lettering here i quite like the idea of this
26:04it almost looks computery and um it gives it a bit more texture
26:12it's a measured and mindful process trying different layouts before they commit to print
26:18just getting the spacing right eyeing it up and saying oh if it's not completely central it doesn't
26:29matter as long as it looks all right in the end that doesn't quite go with my normal way of thinking
26:36nowadays most old typefaces are available online their imperfections cleaned up for the
26:42digital age but one font has a dramatic origin story
26:51in the early 1900s two giants of the arts and crafts movement thomas cobden sanderson and his
26:58business partner emery walker wanted to find an antidote to the fashion for florid heavy typography
27:05they created a new typeface for this venture which they named the doves type arguably their greatest
27:11achievement and at first it was a success they made a lot of books had a lot of sales things are going
27:18well but gradually subscriptions dried up and the business ended and their partnership was dissolved in
27:261909 but then a long and acrimonious argument began about the ownership to the rights for the
27:35doves type their most valuable asset at first it was 50 50 but cobden sanderson reneged on this
27:42agreement claiming he put more into the business and on and on it raged for years and eventually it
27:49ended in an extraordinary act of sabotage
27:55cobden sanderson decided that not only was his business partner emory walker not going to have
28:00this type but that no one should have it so starting in 1916 under cover of night he came down here to
28:08hammersworth bridge and he threw the entire typeface off the bridge into the river tomes below and over the
28:16next few months in 170 visits he disposed of a ton of metal into the river this typeface was now lost
28:26the only record of it being in a few valuable printed books it seemed that an important part of printing
28:33history have been lost forever a hundred years later one man fell in love with the elegant doves typeface
28:43and made it his mission to revive it but first he had to find the actual type graphic designer rob green
28:53so rob tell me about how he got involved in this this is cobden sanderson's journals it's his diaries
28:59and in here he says where he threw it right arrived at the bridge i crossed to the other side
29:08take a stealthy look round and if no one is in sight i heave up the box on the parapet release the
29:16sliding lid and let the type fall sheer into the river the work of a moment
29:24wow so i'd read this and i thought well i'll come down here and have a look and he gave clues as to
29:31where it was he gives enough clues for you to pretty much work it out right lots of people have
29:37wanted to find this type why were you able to find it where others had failed i put myself in his shoes
29:45because of what he was doing was strictly illegal what would i do if i was doing something illegal
29:52and uh i didn't want to be found out so i worked out where he would have stood on the bridge right
29:57uh with that in mind and then i came down onto the foreshore with my mudlarks license and dug around
30:05for 20 minutes and found some what was that like that moment when you found that first bit of time
30:10it was quite strange actually because it was almost like that whole sort of 97 years just collapsed
30:17i'd found it and it was like he just sort of dropped it and i'd caught it yeah it was very very odd
30:25in 2014 rob's discovery persuaded the port of london authority to allow divers to search the riverbed
30:36in total 151 pieces of type were found an a like i say that's an h
30:47but not the whole alphabet how does it feel being here in the same spot this is
30:55to all intents and purposes of burial ground you know he dedicated and consecrated the type here
31:01so obviously it's it's it's meant an enormous amount to you yeah yeah
31:07now studying for a phd in the dove's type rob took me to central st martin's to see firsthand his find
31:15so rob this is the actual type yeah that you found at the bottom of the river yes
31:21finding this in the mud it's amazing that you've found any at all really i mean it is quite delicate
31:27isn't it rob has been able to faithfully recreate the whole alphabet to the original design
31:35so how do you make the letters of all the ones that you're missing what was the process there
31:40i have an example of every single letter on the various printed sources that i've got and once
31:47you've got enough of the different features that you can see in the metal there's certain shapes and
31:53forms repeat across a typeface for instance if i didn't have a capital z i know that the diagonal bar
32:01of the n is that thick and you know from that i can extrapolate what the diagonal bar of the z is
32:08going to look like so i used an amalgam of both the metal and the printed letters yeah it's quite
32:15a job isn't it because you're working how do you feel giving back the dove type to the world it's a
32:25really fascinating important typeface and it's been 10 over 10 years of my life 12 years of my life
32:33no 14 years of my life what am i talking about back in the barn our junior crafters are nearly
32:40halfway through their letterpress challenge it looks like it's quite a playful piece i start getting inky
32:52so it's better to underdo it and then add more yeah then it is to have too much
33:02believe it or not there's a right way to roll ink so it doesn't go blobby
33:06so do you think you're sort of set on this design i want to add more texture to it and some more
33:27around the outside so it's not just sort of the letters so it's just sort of going from there now
33:32finding ways to embellish it without overpowering yeah great carry on thank you will do i think the
33:39main thing is to try and get four prints out quite quickly with two hours to go the first proofs are
33:49coming off the press a series of test prints to check for adjustments and changes oh that's good
33:55i like that you were attacked by a wasp or something at a young age i'm not too sure about this part now
34:01this little drop out here in the print yeah yeah it's a deformity in the letter that part there
34:06it's not picking up ink but i feel like it suits the dislike of yellow there's something about that
34:12imperfection that gives it a little bit of character you know oh wow that one came out really well
34:18yeah you're pleased with it yeah it kind of looks like the word doesn't it
34:37yeah i definitely think bringing the spacing of each line down in a little bit a bit tighter a bit
34:44tighter i want to try the like doing it in different colors and like not aligning it as
34:51well for this yeah so if you if we position it again in here so that it does that and then we'll
34:57ink it with one color do a print rub it off ink up another color wipe it off again does that make sense
35:03yeah the first print is never the last before they commit to the final look the juniors might make
35:11as many as 10 proofs
35:19in cambridgeshire our letterpress junior crafters have been given five hours to create a poster from scratch
35:25under the tutelage of two celebrated experts nick hand and ellen bills
35:35our juniors are making lots of prints tweaking and refining all the time
35:42florrie is using a new frame to overprint a different color
35:45so i wonder whether it could just drop down a tad because it's so strong isn't it
36:01it's really beautiful it's like a bit of um almost like final
36:05i wanted to layer the type over each other to get that overlapping of color yeah and just trying
36:14to be a bit fun and loose with it yeah well it's definitely done that yeah i like the inverted
36:20exclamation mark that's great yeah i'm just going to keep experimenting
36:27okay crafters that's one hour to go you have one hour left so you now might want to think about
36:33finalizing your designs no pressure don't forget you want to add the yellow as well yeah that's what
36:40i'm about to do now okay
37:03it must be great doing what you do here in bristol which has a long tradition of printing
37:18yeah yeah it's great um it's nice to feel like you're keeping something alive it's quite ephemeral
37:23printing isn't it mostly it gets chucked away yeah it's nice having stuff that sticks around yeah and
37:29celebrates a kind of brilliant craft really which is what you know what's important to us isn't it
37:35it is yeah they've collaborated with local architects to make an urban artwork
37:43and it's been installed on a site where members of ellen's family worked before it was bombed in the
37:48blitz this was the old print works here yeah this was where the old print works was yeah
37:53yeah and it features designs from bristol's industrial history we did little wax tracing
38:00for drain covers and then we turned them into the print oh this is great i love these roundels
38:06the classic old gwr this is from my youth you know the railway would have lots of property
38:11yeah everywhere we go around the west country you'd see this logo yeah yeah ellen how does it feel
38:17having this piece here where your relatives and both of us are bristolians so when we do a project
38:22that's sort of bristol based we always feel connected but this is yeah it's a little bit more special
38:27it's a lovely reminder of its you know printing yeah exactly there was things here before computers and
38:33high-rise
38:43with less than half an hour to go the juniors need to start locking in their final designs
38:48i've got eight or so examples of my work two of which are not very good they came out a bit smudged
38:55or whatever so yeah at least i've got a few spares in case i mess up the next stage
39:02and that next stage for florrie is experimenting with some of ellen's contemporary techniques
39:18as they pull their final prints james can't resist a cheeky last-minute experiment
39:28i'm going to do something that i was told not to do specifically
39:30yeah i'm quite like that it's going to take a year to dry but i can't like it just the last layer
39:46to go and then i can choose my final print okay crafters you have 10 minutes left 10 minutes
39:58okay crafters that's it time's up step away from your presses
40:12james nayab and florrie have risen to the challenge of developing their skills in the
40:29heritage craft of letterpress printing they wrestle with designs typefaces and layouts to create some
40:36striking results okay florrie here's your project well it's great isn't it i love that combination
40:47of a bit of gothic bit of modular bit of gil from the 20s bit of victorian i really like how you added
40:56folding to create these in the corners i think that was quite nice and how you ended up with this
41:01which must have been was that kind of a weather where it folded one of these bits folded over the
41:05top of the other yeah it's quite organic and then this shadow if you'd planned it it would never come
41:10out like that but yeah it's went really well happy accident i guess it's kind of witty because it's
41:16saying i hate letters numbers of my friends although actually you clearly love letters as well
41:21so there's a kind of a nice duality to it that's great well done thank you a very creative piece of
41:32work i loved watching it come together it felt very fluid and you were totally in command of it and
41:40i love the idea of celebrating mistakes as well and it's really important that we learn that like
41:46nothing's wrong to see the sort of the colors that you've created here it's really lovely and
41:53me and nick were saying that some of these red patches in the blue they're amazing it's a great
41:58combination it's witty it's playful but it's also very technically accomplished so so well done thank you
42:08this would work really well if you put it up in a custard factory
42:12oh 100 i think i think the custard factory workers would really appreciate that we'd make them smile
42:18every day nick and ellen what do you make of this i really enjoyed seeing you the last sort of hour
42:24really you were just kind of really going for it with the experimenting with the yellow i i kind of
42:29love the fact that these splodges are going to take days to dry but it's um it really it really kind
42:35of um yeah it makes the yellow stand out quite a lot you probably printed what 10 of these every single
42:41one is going to be totally different because of the the hand rolling and then choosing uh
42:45characters like this someone else could do the same poster but they might not like that l and
42:49replace it with one that was perfect i think that really shows when it's done properly as
42:54letterpress rather than computer i always think these letters are a bit like us you know the older
42:59they are the more damaged they are and you know carry their scars with them like we do and and
43:06it's kind of part of their character like part of our character yeah speak for yourself yeah nick
43:15that's great well done thank you so much
43:23definitely a learning curve and it was also a lot more hands-on than i was expecting
43:28it's going to be difficult for me to implement a lot of these processes for
43:31my wedding guests because you don't want all of the individuality but if i were to do greetings
43:37cards and things i think that would be really lovely you could definitely add a few personalized
43:42touches i've really enjoyed today it's been amazing to learn from nick and ellen and i think
43:51going forward i'll definitely be putting their tips and tricks into action
43:56and work the way i did today throughout my future ventures in letterpress
44:04the thing about letterpress is individuality and every piece that you're going to make
44:12it's not going to be the same i think that's just the beauty that's why we've got to keep it going
44:18for letterpress itself it's really important to pass this on to other generations just spending a day
44:28with those materials the wood type and the presses i think you just sort of fall in love with that
44:33process that's the nicest part of it i think
44:37it's definitely it's love
44:47so
45:06so