Deckle Press

Letterpress & print · est. 2014

A two-press shop run by Bram Quist, printing from metal and polymer on a 1962 Vandercook and an old platen. We make small editions, stationery, and the occasional stubborn commission — printed slowly, on good paper, with the impression you can feel.

Our yearly almanac — a hand-set calendar with notes on tides, planting, and saints’ days nobody observes anymore, printed in two colours on cotton stock and bound by hand in an edition of two hundred.

A run of large single-sheet poems and proverbs set in wood type, printed one colour at a time so each pull takes a day to dry before the next. Sold flat or rolled; the wood grain prints right along with the letters.

Specimen booklets for the cases we keep — what each face looks like at every size we hold, with the dings and worn sorts left in, because that is what the type actually prints like rather than what a digital revival pretends.

Commissions start with the paper and the ink, not the deadline. We take a handful at a time — wedding suites, small books, identities that want a real edge to them — and we are honest early about what letterpress does well and what it does not. Proofs are pulled on the actual stock before any run begins.