For the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how I can use this economic downturn as an opportunity to push out in new directions and become a better business person. Surely one of the first things I can do is amp up my etsy shop! I used to be pretty active on etsy, but to be honest after a while I just got kind of bored of printing greeting cards. So its time take a new approach and get going with some new initiatives.
This morning I took a field trip to Chinatown and hunted around for some vintage paper goods to work with. I found a treasure trove of good stuff, including a lot of beautiful old accounting stationery. I plan on doing some experimenting to come up with some interesting letterpress items, all affordable and mostly one-of-a-kind, to post in my etsy shop. I’ll throw some links to new items as I go, hope you’ll check in with me and give some feedback!
Beautiful work. I’m currently restoring an old C & P and trying to get into letterpress for fun. I have a way to go…
You photography is great too.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Ah, sounds like a great project. A labor of love, both the machine and printing.
What a great idea! I used to frequent Janoff’s Stationers on the UWS by Columbia for super old papers — they haven’t done inventory in three decades! Good luck and I’ll be excited to see your new projects!
Yeah, love those old places. As one of the shop owners was ringing up my stuff she said ‘so what are you going to do with this junk’? :)
Great find! Those accounting books are wonderful, especially with the stitches on the binding. If you’re ever in San Francisco, pay a visit to the American Bookbinder’s Museum. The docent explained before the advent of computers, accountants would purchase accounting books with marbled edges. The edges created such a pattern that if any of the pages were removed, it was a signal that the book was tampered with.