1HelenMoss
We are on the move and need your help.
We are posting on this forum, as the members here are amongst the few in the world that can appreciate the commitment and difficulties of running a traditional, craft based private press. The creative model is excellent, we are sustainable and low impact on the environment, we have a lot of fun and give a lot of joy. Business-wise of course, it is always a challenge as you can imagine.
We want to move our printshop from England to Scotland, both for fun and pleasure, but also so we can then have a part time gallery and shop space. Graham wants to do more teaching - and his skills should be passed on. We are working hard and saving up, and have searched for the right property for a year. We found it last week. But under the Scottish system, we cannot make a formal offer and secure it until we have the funds. We put an appeal out a few days ago, and miraculously the UK print community and our customers bought about £20k of stock, which is a great help. But we are about £45k short.
You can read the whole idea of our project on the blog post below.
We are in the process of putting our current workshop on the market, but we cannot move all this kit without having a new place lined up first, and we do not qualify for business loans. We won't get any stock out to overseas customers before the holidays, but if anyone is minded to order, share the blog post with their own people - of have some other kind of miracle to hand, please get in touch. Best wishes. Graham and Helen
https://www.inclinepress.com/news/2024/12/10/incline-press-on-the-move
We are posting on this forum, as the members here are amongst the few in the world that can appreciate the commitment and difficulties of running a traditional, craft based private press. The creative model is excellent, we are sustainable and low impact on the environment, we have a lot of fun and give a lot of joy. Business-wise of course, it is always a challenge as you can imagine.
We want to move our printshop from England to Scotland, both for fun and pleasure, but also so we can then have a part time gallery and shop space. Graham wants to do more teaching - and his skills should be passed on. We are working hard and saving up, and have searched for the right property for a year. We found it last week. But under the Scottish system, we cannot make a formal offer and secure it until we have the funds. We put an appeal out a few days ago, and miraculously the UK print community and our customers bought about £20k of stock, which is a great help. But we are about £45k short.
You can read the whole idea of our project on the blog post below.
We are in the process of putting our current workshop on the market, but we cannot move all this kit without having a new place lined up first, and we do not qualify for business loans. We won't get any stock out to overseas customers before the holidays, but if anyone is minded to order, share the blog post with their own people - of have some other kind of miracle to hand, please get in touch. Best wishes. Graham and Helen
https://www.inclinepress.com/news/2024/12/10/incline-press-on-the-move
2Glacierman
Quoting from Graham & Helen's e-mail (also posted elsewhere here):
So we are hoping for a miracle....and we have some ideas to help that along.
Firstly we have lots of great hand made books and affordable pamphlets in our shop, ready to go and your purchases will help us greatly. Please take a look there. For most of our books we will post them first class in the UK until the new year.
Incline Press shop
Secondly we will be selling some new and used type and workshop gear on Ebay over the coming months, including rare and unused foundry type in mostly unopened packets, cast in the 1960s and rare as hen's teeth. We will flag this up on our Instagram page as we go.
Ebay shop
Thirdly, this is the launch of our crowdfunder! We would gratefully accept any gift you might wish to send us using the blue buttons (Paypal or Bank Transfer) or you can pick from this list below.
£10 - A bundle of ephemera, with a newly printed book mark.
£25 - A copy of the pamphlet RED which was the new year book of 2023, plus the ephemera.
£50 - A hardback copy of Jennifer Reid's latest songbook, a copy of RED, plus the ephemera.
£100 - Gifts Of The Magi, a poetry book by Jamie McKendrick, and the pamphlet 'My Orcha'd in Linden Lea' by William Barnes, plus the ephemera
£500 - A copy of Punch and Judy, and the Owl and the Pussy-cat and the ephemera
£1000 - The Oldham Charivari, a new portfolio of over 150 items of ephemera printed over the last 20 years, to be bound over the summer of 2025. It will not be available otherwise. Your name or other dedication of your choice can be added to your own copy.
£2500 - Come to Scotland (once we've moved there!) for a four day course of one-to-one printing instruction with Graham, to make your own letterpress project. Including B&B accommodation, and vegetarian meals.
£3500 - During 2025, we will publish Herbert Read's War Poems. An exemplar edition will bound by Roger Grech, contained in a drop back box with an additional portfolio of Oliver Flude's woodcuts for the book. This edition is exclusive to this fundraiser and will not be available otherwise.
Paypal link
Bank transfer link
Lastly, it would be so appreciated if you can share this email with folk you think might be interested in contributing, and please do repost our Instagram and Facebook posts as they come up in the near future. We need our community!
We shall keep everyone posted about developments and send you photos as the move progresses – if we get a chance to make it happen.
Letterpress is listed by Heritage Crafts as endangered, with just a handful of workshops like ours left. We are up against the environmentally polluting Digital Big Boys, but still believe in the sustainable fifteenth century tools and traditional publishing model. As custodians of increasingly rare machines and skills who just love real books, we still follow William Morris' rejection of soulless industrialism. We hope you can help us start this new phase of our work - and we will continue to meet the challenge of making and we hope, teaching it.
Thank you so much for all your support of Incline Press. Here's to life's Big Adventures!
Graham and Helen.
So we are hoping for a miracle....and we have some ideas to help that along.
Firstly we have lots of great hand made books and affordable pamphlets in our shop, ready to go and your purchases will help us greatly. Please take a look there. For most of our books we will post them first class in the UK until the new year.
Incline Press shop
Secondly we will be selling some new and used type and workshop gear on Ebay over the coming months, including rare and unused foundry type in mostly unopened packets, cast in the 1960s and rare as hen's teeth. We will flag this up on our Instagram page as we go.
Ebay shop
Thirdly, this is the launch of our crowdfunder! We would gratefully accept any gift you might wish to send us using the blue buttons (Paypal or Bank Transfer) or you can pick from this list below.
£10 - A bundle of ephemera, with a newly printed book mark.
£25 - A copy of the pamphlet RED which was the new year book of 2023, plus the ephemera.
£50 - A hardback copy of Jennifer Reid's latest songbook, a copy of RED, plus the ephemera.
£100 - Gifts Of The Magi, a poetry book by Jamie McKendrick, and the pamphlet 'My Orcha'd in Linden Lea' by William Barnes, plus the ephemera
£500 - A copy of Punch and Judy, and the Owl and the Pussy-cat and the ephemera
£1000 - The Oldham Charivari, a new portfolio of over 150 items of ephemera printed over the last 20 years, to be bound over the summer of 2025. It will not be available otherwise. Your name or other dedication of your choice can be added to your own copy.
£2500 - Come to Scotland (once we've moved there!) for a four day course of one-to-one printing instruction with Graham, to make your own letterpress project. Including B&B accommodation, and vegetarian meals.
£3500 - During 2025, we will publish Herbert Read's War Poems. An exemplar edition will bound by Roger Grech, contained in a drop back box with an additional portfolio of Oliver Flude's woodcuts for the book. This edition is exclusive to this fundraiser and will not be available otherwise.
Paypal link
Bank transfer link
Lastly, it would be so appreciated if you can share this email with folk you think might be interested in contributing, and please do repost our Instagram and Facebook posts as they come up in the near future. We need our community!
We shall keep everyone posted about developments and send you photos as the move progresses – if we get a chance to make it happen.
Letterpress is listed by Heritage Crafts as endangered, with just a handful of workshops like ours left. We are up against the environmentally polluting Digital Big Boys, but still believe in the sustainable fifteenth century tools and traditional publishing model. As custodians of increasingly rare machines and skills who just love real books, we still follow William Morris' rejection of soulless industrialism. We hope you can help us start this new phase of our work - and we will continue to meet the challenge of making and we hope, teaching it.
Thank you so much for all your support of Incline Press. Here's to life's Big Adventures!
Graham and Helen.
3HelenMoss
>2 Glacierman: Thank you Glacierman, I'm not very technically adept and had no idea if buttons, text or photos could be cut and pasted in here. We really appreciate your support and encouragement.
4Glacierman
>3 HelenMoss: It is our pleasure! I continue to enjoy the books from Incline that I own and I know others share my pleasure. We need to make sure you can keep 'em coming!
5HelenMoss
>4 Glacierman: Thank you, it is a joy.
6ensuen
Made a contribution, hope the fundraiser works out! I’ve greatly enjoyed the presses output.
7HelenMoss
>6 ensuen: Gosh, thank you so much - so kind!
8toddwest2000
Helen and Graham, best wishes on your successful journey. I just received my copy of your delightful small publication, "Eric Ravilious and the Griffin passant he engraved for London Transport". And I am very pleased with it. I recommend Incline Press to other readers here.
9HelenMoss
>8 toddwest2000: Thank you Todd, glad it crossed the water ok. We shall keep making them, if we can find people to keep reading them. Best wishes.
