We are open for European Days of Arts & Crafts at Saturday 5 April from 11am to 6pm and on Sunday 6 April from 11am to 6 pm European Days of Arts & Crafts is an effort across Europe and from 4-6 April 2025 you can find open studios and events in the world of arts & crafts not only …

Parsnip Cake Folio-Grotesk: frm 1957, Bauer + Baum; Hobby: 1955, Walter Rebhuhn; Verona: 1958, Hans Matheis It was love at first bite, so to speak. We met Parsnip Cake for the first time in Scotland at Ceilidh Place, Wester Ross. It is a lovely place serving soup of the day, cake and they sell books as an extra treat.
Folio Grotesk …

Quiche Koch-Antiqua: 1922, Rudolf Koch; Delphin: 1951, Georg Trump Like Helvetica, Delphin was on stock in various sizes in almost all printing offices. It was a favourite for annoncing weddings and births. More often than not the type was quite worn down from being used a lot. Georg Trump must have enjoyed designing two variants each for lower case g …

Fupsbudel Post-Versal 1935 and Post-Antiqua 1939 Herbert Post (1903-1978) designed both varieties in the 1930s. The duo was quite successful and widely used for both wedding announcements and obituaries. The card printed to announce my birth was set from Post-Versal. Fupsbudel (which is low German for bag or satchel) is a recipe developed with a big smile towards the traditional …

Gnocchi Symphonie:1938, Imre Reiner; Mozart: 1927, Georg Belwe; Maxim: 1956, Peter Schneidler; Wilhelm Klingspor: Rudolf Koch, 1926; Sonderdruck; Boulevard: 1954, Günter Gerhard Lange; Arabella: 1936, Arno Drescher; Forelle: 1936, Erich Mollowitz; Legende: 1937, Friedrich Schneidler; Adagio: 1953, Karl Klauß; Eilschrift; Bernhard-Fraktur: 1912, Lucian Bernhard; Palette: 1950, Martin Wilke There is a wealth of fonts designed in the style of handwriting. …

Carrot-Coriander-Soup Quick: 1933, Howard A. Trafton; Trump mediäval: 1954, Georg Trump This soup is one of many served as soup-of-the-day in a lot of places. We have chosen Carrot-Coriander-Soup often at the Priory in Burford, and we enjoyed it every time. Burford is a lovely town in the Cotswolds, UK, where we alway made a detour to when staying for …

The first Schmausbuch, published in 2002 and sold out long ago, has been not just a recipe book, it also was the sample book of the studio‘s stock of metal type at the time. Schmausbuch Nummer 2 follows along this line and for its 52 pages metal and wood type was used that has arrived at the studio after 2002. …

The European Days of Arts & Cratfs are a yearly event and this year they will be held from 4 – 6 April. The Fork and Broom Press will be open both on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm showcasing the whole range of artist’s books and prints.   The Fork and Broom Press Oppenweher Straße 9 32351 Stemwede-Oppenwehe …

Schmaubuch Nummer 2 was designed and printed on the occasion of the studio‘s silver jubilee. The book is a collection of recipes and a samplebook of fonts. All text is handset from metal and wood type. The sheets are printed on a manual proofpress. As with the first Schmausbuch, published in 2002, the paper used is Zerkall Ingres deckled edge …

The jubilee exhibition “25 Years of Printmaking” has been open from 21 to 23 June. Articles were in both our regional newspapers, and the newspaper in the former location of the studio, in the region of Göppingen, printed an article about what has become of good old studio bleiklötzle after it has moved north and got renamed to what is …