The 47th Precinct

a few things I am really tickled about this weekend:

1. just received my lines & shapes subscription (with the first three volumes), providing not only ample reading material, but hopefully a spur for 47!

2. lena corwin (a creator and contributor of lines and shapes) also just put out a book printing by hand. I am pretty excited about a few of the ideas that are nothing like things I have tried (ironing transfer paper to fabric in order to enable clean stencil/stipple printing! brilliant!), so hopefully I’ll have a few things to show before the weekend is out.

3. and on the topic of printing and pretty books, I also happened to spot lotta jansdotter’s (one of my favorite names of all time) print book lotta prints (nothing hooks me like a play on words) right next to ms. corwin’s and couldn’t resist it. a few years ago, steven’s sister was wrapping presents in homemade potato print paper, and it was just so lovely. this scrappy little book has a bunch of ideas in a similar vein, from leaf prints to simple screening techniques.

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