Born out of a school boy ambition to cast our own type, we are a small hobby type foundry using a 1948 Monotype Super Caster.
Our passion is keeping letterpress alive by making new type and ornaments accessible to all.
Our aim is to offer small quantities of type and ornaments for sale to the hobby letterpress printer.
We operate on a small scale, and only when time allows.
Indeed we feel able to proclaim that we are probably the world’s smallest type foundry!
We hold a small stock of borders and symbols for immediate sale, and when time allows, we will cast to order from our modest collection of matrices.
Please check our Instagram page for details of our current casting plans, as well as dates of forthcoming events we will be attending.
Producing a definitive printed catalogue of our collection of type and ornament matrices is very difficult.
Products available for sale will be advertised via our Instagram page (see link below).
As founding members of the Campaign for Affordable Letterpress, we hope our prices reflect this.
Our type foundry uses a 1948 Monotype Super Caster.
A precision machine which injects hot liquid type metal (10% tin, 16% antimony 74% lead) at high pressure into a mould upon which a brass matrix is firmly held. The resultant type quickly solidifies and is ejected into the delivery channel. One by one each type "sort" is cast.
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