Description
When life hands you lemons…make lemonade!
This is a hand-bound journal with a hand-pulled, letterpress cover (in fact, everything was done by hand, the hard way!). This piece is a collaboration between Chandler O’Leary of Anagram Press and Jessica Spring of Springtide Press, made from the “lemons” presented by the pitfalls of printing by hand.
When we were printing our fifteenth Dead Feminist broadside, “Love Nest,” featuring a quote by Emma Goldman, we had a few prints that ended up with slightly wonky registration. We couldn’t include those prints in the edition of broadsides, but since we still liked the results, we decided to crop the prints down to our favorite parts, and make “lemonade!”
This pocket-sized blank notebook is perfect for penning a secret love note, listing this year’s gifts for your family, planning out the urban homestead you always wanted to start, or even designing your ideal garden. Keep it close to your heart, or tuck it into the arms of a loved one as a gift.
The Russian folk art design includes the faces of two nesting dolls and the phrase “The Most Vital Right.”
You can learn more about the original Dead Feminist broadside here.
Hand-sewn pamphlet stitch journal with rounded corners
Blank inside
Size when closed: 3.75 x 3.75 inches
Size when open: 7.5 x 3.75 inches
4 blank sheets (16 pages) inside
Terracotta colored pages inside
Note: as these are individually handmade by cutting down larger prints, please allow for slight differences in image cropping than what is pictured here.
Cover was letterpress printed on an antique Vandercook Universal One press. Journal is made with acid-free paper and hand-stitched with Irish linen thread.
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This original artwork is copyright Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring 2012. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this print. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.
WA state residents are subject to sales tax.
This journal will ship flat in a protective mailer, via the United States Postal Service.
