Printing at Albertine Press

I had a great time printing in letterpress with Shelley at her studio, in Somerville, MA. A full five hours, printing on a Vandercook, two colors holiday greeting cards, on Fabriano Medioevalis cotton paper. Plus some beautiful card stock we had available. Shelley was excellent to make printing easy and productive and had a brilliant idea on how to improve the entire design, by overlapping the two images. After the first color was completed and we were ready for the next step, the result wasn't exactly what I was aiming for, so a new idea is what we needed!
The beautiful stripe bird is by Susy Pilgrim Waters, as a lot of other paintings and illustrations throughout my blog. Here some photos of the work in progress and the finished piece, more pictures, details and comments on Albertine Press blog.
What a truly wonderful collaboration!
We are getting ready for holiday trunk shows and studio sale, and more informations on various events will be soon announced.
We also still have a few openings for our Letterpress and Bookbinding Workshop for the weekend of November 10th and 11th! A lot of work still needs to be done,
I hope November will be a good, productive month!

Edizioni Almenodue in Via Giulia, 11

Yesterday, in Rome, was the grand opening of an exhibition of our limited edition books, among other artists work. The art gallery, called Marzocco, is located in Via Giulia, 11. The exhibition Immaginative~verde come opera d'arte, will be open from October 26th until December 20th. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the opening, but I can say, that Via Giulia is one of the most beautiful street in Rome, now full of art galleries, was designed by Bramante for Pope Giulio II, in the beginning of the XVI century.
One of the most amazing, quite, intimate place of Rome.

Japanese binding workshop

I have taught a three hours workshop at Paper Source Brookline, MA, today. Students made three Japanese binding books, a noble binding, hempleaf and tortoiseshell binding, with silk screen Yuzen Japanese paper, on the cover.
Few samples and a work in progress picture, here below.

Vittoriani line invitations

I have finally completed a big order of Vittoriani fill-in invitations, placed by Fabriano Boutiques. Between Silvana in Rome and me here, we hand- bound 1500 invitations and singularly packed with glassine envelope, in a clear bag. I don' know if I really will be able to do this again! Anyhow, now the fill-in invitations will be available in all the Fabriano stores in Italy, including their airport locations. At the same time, they appeared on Bene Magazine, fall issue. We are grateful for that!

Vamp and Tramp

Our bookseller, Bill and Vicky Stewart of Vamp and Tramp, work intensively to represent book artists and fine presses to different University Special Collection Libraries around the country. We have just received two new placements for our limited edition books. The Jumblies has been purchased by the Stanford University Library and The Owner of the Bow by the Washington University Library.
We are very thankful to their effort in representing our work!
I have posted before about the limited edition The Owner of the Bow, and I'm including now some information about the first collaborative book by
Edizioni Almenodue.
The Jumblies, by Edward Lear is part of a collection of Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabet, published in England, in 1871.
The book has been printed entirely in letterpress on Italian Fedrigoni paper by Lucio Passerini, in a limited edition of 150 copies, in Milan, Italy, during March 2004.
The illustrations are by Argentinian artist Fabian Negrin, now living Italy. It's hand-bound with Japanese Obonai paper on the hard cover and Japanese hand-made paper end sheets . It presents a single signature pamphlet stitch sewing on a folded Fabriano mould-made paper.
The text has been translated from English into Italian by Damiano Abeni and composed in Proforma a typeface designed by Petr van Blokland.
All together a great collaboration, that led us to continue working on
limited edition books.

Paper Source workshop

Today, I taught a new workshop at Paper Source Brookline, MA : Pamphlet stitch dos a` dos and flower book. The group of students was amazing, so much to learn from them too!

Julia Rothman print

Thanks to Julia Rothman, I was be able to trade a copy of the book The Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy with some of her silkscreen prints. I have been an admired of Julia's illustrations and patterns, since I first saw some of her work on Design Sponge. The prints are even more beautiful when seen in person. The color choice is perfect!
Thank you Julia, for also posting our latest book on Books by its cover. I have discovered so many interesting artists on her blog and I'm very pleased to be part of it. Grazie.

Luxury Apts. by Julia Rothman