Ingrid Washinwatok El-Issa notebook 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.

$10.00

Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, a human rights activist and Freedom Fighter for Indigenous Peoples in North and South America. • medium size notebook • cover is letterpress printed in reflex blue ink with original illustration on ledger green 100# paper • 64 blank 100% recycled pages • sewn stitched binding on the left in turquoise thread • measures 4.25”x6” with two rounded corners and packaged in a cello 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.