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friendly prints for feral people!! 🏳️‍⚧️🎨🌈⚖️ Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜 amanda wyatt visconti (they/them) yr letterpress/Luddite coder/humanities pal free high fives & exclamation marks

Closeup photo of a wood case of letterpress lead type, with a battered post-it note warning "watch out / Bembo is in this case of Baskerville 😐" (two font names)
Photo closeup of a jar of dayglo orange letterpress ink (PMS 804) peeking out behind more boring jars and cans of ink
Photo of a wood bamboo cutting board engraved with a suitcuffed pointing hand where the fingertips are cut off by the edge of the board
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with black ink. It says "dogges names of olde" in an antique font, next to a historical image of a dog playbowing st the sun
Photo of a letterpress print using Old English and Centaur fonts, and various metal and wood dog illustration blocks, inked in black on cream paper. The text reads in somewhat inaccurate mock late Middle English: "Dogges Names of Olde" followed by names over each of 6 dog illustrations (Rudynowgh, Gourmande, Merymowthe, Pretyman, Havegooday, Beste-of-all) and captions under each: "This dogge may have a litel of youre mele, a treat." "This hound hath lengere legges; his feete goon til to the erthe. A good freend." "This hound stiketh out his tunge as him pleaseth." “This hound is yclept a jape for its swete maner.” “Ye mowe be assured she be verie gode.” “This dogge is slyk & faste. He ‘zoometh’.” At the bottom is an illustration of a bounding hound and the text "I Want A Dog". At the bottom is a bordered section that says “Actual 15th-century dog anmes from ‘Names of All Manners of Hounds’ via Scott-McNab’s edition.” To the side of this, smaller text in italics says “This saieth, ‘I wol a dog.’” Underneath is a bounding dog illustration, and the text “I Want A Dog”, as well as a timeline running from 15th to 21st centuries.
Photo of a letterpress print on white 19" tall x 13" wide paper with dayglo blue-purple and red-orange ink. It says "i like big!! (& smol type, 2) wood type & i cannot lie" in blue; the letters of "wood" and "type" each fill about 40% of the page's height. "Wood" was printed in blue; had a band of orange words in various sizes, typefaces, and orientations printed over it; then was printed again over that in the same place as its first instance, in blue. The words are "big", "wood", and "type". One of each of those words is also printed in orange using a shadowed font, vertically among the spaces between the letters of the large word "type". A small trans flag is next to small text that says "made with 💜 by a trans [checked checkbox] printer [checked checkbox] ally". There are several decorative printers fists (pointing hands) and exclamation marks
Photo of a letterpress print poster that says "I want a hydroponics of care: see us, water us as / seeds / before we are buried" in orange, green, and a blues gradient ink, with blue prints from sunflower seeds over the orange word "seeds"
Photo of a letterpress print on tan chipboard paper with blue-violet ink. It says "to be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate", followed by a long text from the conclusion of a zine by Sarah Werner: "To be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate is to look at our world and say, No, it does not stay as it is, No, the future is not yet written, Yes, we can repair the world, Yes, I will be there for you and for the children of our children's children's children. We will be as many as the seeds of a pomegranate and we will build this new world one step at a time, one breath at a time, one act building on another until the seeds we plant today grow into orchards of pomegranates and mitzvot. I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised. This is my new year's wish for you, my friends. May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world. - from Sarah Werner’s “Pomegranates’” Running along the side of the page from the first use of the word “mitzvoh” is the text “*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with gradient orange-red-purple-blue and blue ink. “Broken is a relative term” is inked in the gradient colors and written in huge broken letters printed from actual broken pieces of wood type; many are pieces from different letters used together, so it looks very disjoint. Around this, smaller neat text in blue ink makes a series of statements about worth, identity, and accessibility. The print’s text says: "Broken" is a relative term CAPITAL: "Broken" is only relative to intended function. Intended by whom? For what? Free from definition-by-profit, we are known whole. Are we Guthrie's "machines for hoping"—or are we the beings who, uniquely, self-define? AESTHETICS: Broken: fruit shares its sweetness; bread, feeds more. If to love old wood type's patina, galaxy of pits & scars is love of traces of messy human use => so is broken type doubly treasure. ART & BODY: Disabled craft is craft. Each craft a plural flexible literacy as by any body. (This print's big text is all made from broken wood type!)"
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with gradient orange-red-purple-blue and blue ink. “Broken is a relative term” is inked in the gradient colors and written in huge broken letters printed from actual broken pieces of wood type; many are pieces from different letters used together, so it looks very disjoint. Around this, smaller neat text in blue ink makes a series of statements about worth, identity, and accessibility. The print’s text says: "Broken" is a relative term CAPITAL: "Broken" is only relative to intended function. Intended by whom? For what? Free from definition-by-profit, we are known whole. Are we Guthrie's "machines for hoping"—or are we the beings who, uniquely, self-define? AESTHETICS: Broken: fruit shares its sweetness; bread, feeds more. If to love old wood type's patina, galaxy of pits & scars is love of traces of messy human use => so is broken type doubly treasure. ART & BODY: Disabled craft is craft. Each craft a plural flexible literacy as by any body. (This print's big text is all made from broken wood type!)
Photo of a letterpress print on chip paper with purple text ink and rainbow gradient image in. It says "breaking machines & b/naries" and has a historical image of a beckoning Luddite
Photo of a letterpress print on tan chipboard paper with red-orange gradient ink. It says "Bookmakers and binders say all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on our gathering / bind us together; leave no one behind"
Closeup from my "'broken' is a relative term" print showing the text "disabled craft is craft" in blue on speckled cream paper, between large letterforms in gradient dayglo orange to purple ink
With a digital gradient border to make it square so fully visible on Bluesky preview, a photo of a letterpress print on speckled cream paper with gradient dayglo inks. It says "ZERO CHILL BUT / ALL THE WARMTH"; the first line is in dayglo blue, the second line in a subtle orange-red dayglo gradient
Photo of a letterpress print on 1 sheet of white paper with dark blue-purple ink on most words. It says "I don't need your ID / to know you're my neighbor / or where you should pee". "my neighbor" is in a horizontal blue-red gadget with faint striping, and "pee" is in a light blue to pink grant. There is a pink and blue gradient brayer border on the top and bottom of the print.
Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard paper with purple-gradient ink. It says a Matt Kirschenbaum Bluesky quote: "We keep assuming there will be this thing called history".
photo of a printing press bed where the word "PEE" in large wood type is inked in a trans pride light blue to pink gradient
Photo of a square box neatly packed with silver shiny letterpress spacing in various sizes, with ends both rectangular and square
Closeup photo of an office printer with a "printers have persecuted me" sticker in old uneven type on it; the printer readout monitor says "Please wait" of course. There is also a sticker (not mine) of the Undertale Annoying Dog, and of the Horrible Goose holding a pride flag (also not my design)
Photo of a pad of vintage Western Union telegrams, with lines and labeled areas for where to enter various into
Composite of a light blue tank top that says "Breaking machines & binaries that enshittify livelihoods... since 1811 (& much earlier; we have always been here)" with an image of a beckoning Luddite with whiskers and a dress; a rainbow inked printing block of the same image, and the digital text "Pride version of my Luddite critical tech tshirts & tanks are live" and "Luddite historically accurately rocking a dress & whiskers"
Photo of a letterpress print on gradeschool lined penmanship-practice paper with black, dayglo light orange, and deep blue ink. It says "abolition is / elementary / 'Police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives' / ACLU SoCal rep., / 2022, Reuters summary"
Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of letterpress type arranged on a metal printing press bed with silver ink on the press rollers. The type is hard to read and fills the space with diagonal lines; it's the type for the print in the two previous photos.
Two photos of letterpress prints, the first a later version of the second. 1) Photo of a letterpress print in blue-pink trans pride gradient ink on white paper. It says "TRANS JOY! & a little bread, as a treat"; there is a large image block of a packaged bread loaf, and a small one of fresh bread. 2) Photo of a letterpress print using caps serif wood type that says "Trans Joy", followed by smaller sans serif text that says "& a little bread, as a treat"; all under a large sandwich bread illustration print; inked in a trans-flag blue to pink gradient.
Closeup of letterpress print in orange to red gradient: "("a thing with feathers") a thing that sings when fed a crumb & grows, whole loaves to others you may never see, a grace made, an *action*"
Closeup of the letterpress print text from the blue ink on white paper version: "I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised. This is my new year's wish for you, my friends. May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world. - from Sarah Werner's "Pomegranates"
Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard paper with blue ink with a subtle blue-purple gradient. The text of the print says "To be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate is to look at our world and say, No, it does not stay as it is, No, the future is not yet written, Yes, we can repair the world, Yes, I will be there for you and for the children of our children's children's children. We will be as many as the seeds of a pomegranate and we will build this new world one step at a time, one breath at a time, one act building on another until the seeds we plant today grow into orchards of pomegranates and mitzvot. I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised.This is my new year's wish for you, my friends. May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world. - from Sarah Werner’s “Pomegranates’” Running along the side of the page from the first use of the word “mitzvot” is the text “*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity possible "
Black tshirt with white text and image: "Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods / Since 1811", next to a beckoning historical image of a "Luddite general" in a dress
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with a gradient of various greens in the ink. It is packed with curving lines of antifascist vegetable and cabbage puns in wood and lead type, wrapped around a full-size actual print from a typehigh-sliced cabbage in neon green. Puns include “this machine kales fascism”, “in chard times, leaf no one behind”, “turnip the heat on ICE”, “stem the tide of legislated racism”, “Napa fascism in the bud”, “Romaine strng against hate”, “cruciferous and furious” (not really a pun), “lettuce resist”, “cabbage patch the holes in our democracy”, “squash fascism”, “thyme to show up for each other”, “endive deportations now”
Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper that's been inked to a pastel neon pink orange yellow gradient. It says "California PizZa Typecase" in blue Cooper Black font, shows the grid of a letterpress California Job Case layout, and is decorated with a dayglo orange cheese slice, original California Pizza Kitchen logo design that's been altered to say "California Pizza Printz", and a plethora of ornaments and little images and words in day glo blue fit into the case cells. Text at bottom says "Special Pizza Style!" next to hands holding a letterpress composing stick, and "Nearly everyone likes printing". There are sausage and cheese textures in the typecase cells where the letters making up "pizza pie" would get stored; and the enjoinder "enjoy pizza AND fight fascism".
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with gradient trans light blue to light pink ink, made with a historical printing block depicting a photographic shower of packaged meats in various shapes
Photo of a large rigid kraft mailer that says "pls don't bend" in marker and has neon pink and yellow duct tape, neon yellow circle stickers, holographic rainbow stickers, and stickers of multiple different plants
Photo of two lasercut bamboo boards showing a raised and engraved beckoning Luddite
Photo of a letterpress print on deep blue paper with silver ink. It says "A noiseless patient spider" and proceeds with the rest of Walt Whitman's poem's text, but with the lines at angles to resemble rays, the eight legs & body of a spider, so not easily readable in order. The phrases "O my soul where you stand" and "O my soul." stand out in larger text with the O a very circular one positioned to look like a spider with eight legs, then a spider hanging on a thread
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with black with green shadow ink. It says "Our community says all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on our gathering / bind us together; leave no one behind"
Photo closeup (digitally flipped for readability) of lead letterpress type arranged to say "Fuck credentials." with an elegant curved underlining beneath it
Grid of 4 letterpress posters: #12 shows 3 seconds/offprints of the "The moral arc of the universe won't bend itself" print, in bue ink with some overlaid silver ink, on white paper; these are decent prints but not quite up to the quality of the ones I'm selling for a charge, as they have some unintentional lightness of ink, the silver isn't as solid as I wanted, etc. #6 says "Abolish ICE" in black ink, with background of orange, red, and yellow text: "defund / prosecute / rehabilitate / atone—" with "defund hate" picked out from that text in bright orange", on thick white paper. #7 and #8 both say "shame every politician not daily demanding prosecution & abolition of ICE" in bright blue ink; #7 is on tan chip paper with green and green-white background stripes, and #8 is on cream paper with teal background stripes
Meme photo composition consisting of two screenshots of printing presses with extra large printing beds found previously for sale online; overlaid with a grainy photo of a good houndmix dog staring through a screen door licking her lips so hard her tongue is covering her nose, and a heart-eyes emoji face. Caption says "(my typehound channeling me dreaming about Big Printing Presses i see online)".
Photo of a metal bucket open to show a pile of once-white rags, stained with various printers ink colors but especially lots of dayglo orange that looks similar to Cheetos. It's next to a closed red bucket that says "RAGS" in permanent marker on the red metal lid
Photo of two clear mason jars holding green Lucky Bamboo plants growing in water, on an open windowsill next to a white and brown dog on a green soft bed
Photo grid showing large wood type ("SEEDS"); a light printing of that type, on chipboard; the letters from that chipboard cut out and slathered in glue, which then had sunflower seeds stuck into it; the seeds, dried to fill in those letterforms, on a printing press bed
Photo of a letterpress print poster that says "I want a hydroponics of care: see us, water us as / seeds / before we are buried" in green, blues gradient, and bright dayglo light-orange inks.
Photo of a letterpress print in blue inks on white paper. The text says in small italics "To the woman crying uncontrollably in / the next stall / -Kim Addonizio" followed by larger text in a half circle that says "if you think nothing & no one can" followed by larger text that says "listen / i love you / joy is coming". The middle of the page has the start and body of the poem text, which says "If you ever woke in your dress at 4 a.m. ever closed your legs to someone you loved opened them for someone you didn't moved against a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled into the back seat for lack of a tampon if you swam across a river under rain sang using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire ripped out the stitches in your heart because why not if you think nothing and no one can / listen / I love you / joy is coming "
Photo of a letterpress print using Process Blue ink on white paper to display a 7-line quote from the end of Louise Gluck's poem "Witchgrass." The text reads: "I don’t need your praise to survive. I was here first, before you were here, before you ever planted a garden. And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon are left, and the sea, and the wide field. I will constitute the field. - Louise Gluck, from ‘Witchgrass’”
Photo grid of 15 colorful letterpress art prints with digital text pointing to the sale described in the post
Photo of my hand with very gray dusty fingers from lead dust and dust working with typesetting lead movable type. In the background is the local printshop's Vandercook printing press with its "this machine fights fascism" black and white sticker
Photo of a letterpress print made with wood and lead type on light brown chipboard, and a gradient of red yellow orange ink for the text. It says "Bookmakers & binders say all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on us gathering / bind us together / leave no one behind". The word "hinges" is set diagonally off the word "justice" to look like a book hinging open
Closeup photo of a gray metal Vandercook printing press's newly changed tympan (paper cylinder cover) signed "AWV 4/20" next to a wrench and screwdriver
Closeup photo of gray metal flat file showing drawers labeled with white "prints" labels and neon yellow labels with names or types of prints contained, including a drawer for "Luddites (various!)" and various explicitly-trans letterpress prints
Photo grid of 4 letterpress prints by me: "Be the vibrant glicth you want to see in the world" in silver ink on a gradient background, a short mic-drop stanza from a poem, "Envision trans futures" on a pink-blue gradient image of a person in dress gazing through binoculars, and "rigor is bullshit and your know it" between carytids
Closeup photo of a letterpress press bed that has a jumble of diagonal lines of metal (leading) and wood (reglets) packed into a solid square using bright blue magnets, and blocks of wood (furniture). The metal lines are at least slightly higher than everything else in the bed and look like diagonal light rays, and are inked in yellow-orange.
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with an orange checkered background, with text and image in navy blue ink. It says "moby dick is about whales (hi); "moby dick" is in a venetian font, "is about" is in a san serif font, "WHALES" is in ornate foliaged square initials, and "hi" is in the same font but coming out of the toothy whale's friendly mouth. There is an illustration of a touthy spouting whale edited from a scan of a 1568 illustration. I know "Moby-Dick" has a hyphen; the lack of hyphen is true to the explicit rhetorical choices of the meme-y quote I'm using.
Photo of a letterpress print on light blue paper with blue-purple ink in the foreground ("I love my trans self.") over a background where the text "I love my trans friends" has been printed twice (once after rotating 180 degrees over itself) in pastel trans pride flag blue-pink gradient. The print is held in front of a frosted glass door with daylight coming through it.
Photo of a letterpress print on bright white paper with bright dayglo orange ink and dark blue-purple ink. The dayglo orange ink says "Read: Zines" in all caps, with the letters "ABC" dropping off "read"'s A, and "XYZ" stacking above "zines"'s Z. It's a chunky, playful, irregular inline font. Around that orange text are a variety of dark blue-purple exclamation marks from various wood-type fonts. The print is arranged on a table next to 3 of my zines: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts" (collab), "Queer Book History" (collab), and "Look!! Here's your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine"
Closeup photo (digitally reflected for readability) of ornate (abstract foliage decorated) metal initial cap movable type letters spelling the word "whales"; the L and S are dropped out of alignment to make the word look playful
Photo of two frosted acrylic squares lasercut with drawings of origami cranes I'd made
Screenshot of a holigraphic sticker from a photo of one of my letterpress prints, with a red-magenta-blue-orange gradient on text that says "letterpress for the people! silly letterpress for the joyful people!"
Screenshot of a glittery sticker that says "Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods (since 1811)" in blue text over a blue version of a historical image of a becoming Luddite
Photo of a letterpress print on bluesky-texture inked paper with blue and silver ink on text. It says "run toward the fire", with "the fire" in silver
Photo of a letterpress print in black and purple inks on white paper. There are several small pointing-hand decorations, and one with a finger describing a circle in the air. The "keywords" ("flying dicks", etc) are in a bubble font, while the rest is made with lead Stymie. The text is Melissa Kaercher's tweeted remixes of various revolutionary quotes: "The revolution won't be televised (because of the / ) / Give me liberty, or give me a wzy to repurpose expired / Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make / inevitable. / You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a bag of expired /When dictatorship is a fact, weaponized / become a right. The revolution is not a / that falls when it is expired. You have it make it FLY / Remixes of revolutionary quotes, by Melissa Kaercher / (Some Minnesotans have thrown sex toys at ICE to protest fascism"