Sojourner Truth card by Blackbird Letterpress

Ladyfingers Letterpress will be closed December 25 through January 11. Orders placed online within this period will ship or be available for curbside pickup beginning January 12.

$6.00

"I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me." Sojourner Truth, civil & women's rights activist and itinerant preacher. • blank inside and measures 4.25”x5.5” folded • card is letterpress printed in teal blue ink on 100% cotton paper • accompanied by an A2 gravel envelope and packaged in a clear sleeve

Kathryn Hunter began Blackbird Letterpress in 2003 in Lafayette, Louisiana, after she bought a Chandler & Price 8x12 letterpress. Since she couldn't move the 1100lb press into her apartment, her friends, Pudd & Leigh Anne, came to the rescue by offering their back room as a printshop.Pudd & Kathryn flew up to to the Windy city and loaded a couple tons of type and cabinets and other goodies out of a basement into a moving truck, and drove it back to Bayou Country. A collection of vintage printers' cuts came from a long time printer in New Iberia, Louisiana. The printshop grew up little by little in that back room from 2003-2007 until it was bursting the seams. Blackbird then worked out of a mural-clad building in Baton Rouge from 2007-2016, which they shared with a cool metalworking business and two frisky guard dogs. The printshop moved in Fall of 2016 and has expanded in space and equipment. We use the original C&P 8x12, along with a Vandercook SP15, C&P 10x15, and 2 Heidelberg Windmills. and have 2 new frisky guard dogs. You can see them by searching Instagram for #heartbuttjunior and #avathegirlscout.