We are very excited to announce Ilee Papergoods as a vendor at The Seattle Square.

Ilee Papergoods will be selling old school letterpress note cards, large prints, and organic kids t-shirts with their designs silkscreened on them.

Here is a description of her process:

Letterpress is relief printing. This means that a raised surface is inked and pressed into a sheet of paper. I design the art work by drawing on paper and transfer it on the computer and then make a photoengraved plate. The relief is produced by exposing the plate material to ultraviolet light through a negative, and then washing it in a water bath. The unexposed areas then dissolve away, leaving the raised image of the art to be printed.

My printing press, Chandler and Price, is 109 years old. I hand feed each card, one at a time. Each color is fed through the press once.

I don’t know about you guys, but even just her description makes me wish that I knew how to work a letterpress — or makes me want to at least try it once.

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ilee
Website: http://www.ileepapergoods.com/