PAST: Bookmarks with Wild Flower Paper

Design your own bookmark, print it on our antique presses and plant it in the ground?! In this one-day workshop students will learn typesetting and printing basics to create a set of 10 plantable bookmarks.

This workshop will teach the primary skills of letterpress printing using type from Signal-Return’s extensive collection of lead type, cuts, and ornaments. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print a form on our table-top platen presses.

Come prepared with an idea of what your bookmarks might say or look like. Think short and sweet, keep text within 4 words or less or about 20 letters. Students will be producing 1 color, single sided designs.

This handmade paper is embedded with wildflower seeds that will grow almost anywhere. Moisten card and plant just under the surface of some soil in a sunny spot. Water regularly until seeds germinate and watch them grow! Wildflower mix may contain a mixture of the following seeds: black-eyed susan, spurred snapdragon, sweet alyssum, bird’s eye, farewell to spring, dwarf catchfly, and Shirley Poppy.

Link here to sign up on the Signal-Return website https://www.signalreturnpress.org/workshop-sales/p/plantable-bookmarks