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.
The Almanac
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.
Broadsides
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.
Type Specimens
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.
About the press
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.