Inkstone Pressroomhttps://inkstonepressroom.com/Notes from a small letterpress and printmaking room in Vilnius: a second-hand proof press, flea-market type, linocut and drypoint, and ink mixed by eye.enPrinting a friend's wedding cards, and what it cost mehttps://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/wedding-cards-for-a-friend/https://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/wedding-cards-for-a-friend/Two hundred cards in two colours, done for nothing, for people I like. What I agree beforehand, and every way a free job still manages to go wrong.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTPaper through the damp season, and when to dampen ithttps://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/paper-through-the-damp-season/https://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/paper-through-the-damp-season/October turns a ground-floor room into a cellar. How a paper stack behaves, how damp a drypoint sheet should be, and why metal type wants paper dry.Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMTMixing ink by eye, and the swatch book that saves mehttps://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/mixing-ink-by-eye/https://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/mixing-ink-by-eye/No scales and no formulas: a glass slab, a palette knife and a habit of writing things down. Why red is hardest, and how little ink a sheet actually needs.Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMTSorting wood and metal type bought by the kilogramhttps://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/sorting-flea-market-type/https://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/sorting-flea-market-type/What is actually in a flea-market crate, how long the sorting takes, which incomplete fonts earn a drawer, and when to leave the lot on the table.Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMTGetting a second-hand proof press into a courtyard roomhttps://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/proof-press-into-a-courtyard-room/https://inkstonepressroom.com/journal/proof-press-into-a-courtyard-room/Moving half a tonne of cast iron through an old-town arch, levelling it on a floor that slopes, and learning what a ground-floor room does in January.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT