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Claudia laub was an art student in California when letterpresses were going the
way of buggy whips. “But one of my professors had an old press, and there was
something about those letters biting into paper that appealed to me,” she
recalls.
After graduation, she and her former husband opened an art gallery
and had the announcements made on a letterpress by a craftsman from France. When
he returned to Europe, Claudia adopted his press and several drawers of type. “I
was off and running.”
Barney’s of New York picked up her line of handmade
greeting cards at a stationery show in the early 1970s, and her business has
grown since by word of mouth. She works at her home studio, Bella Luna
Letterpress, catering to some of Hollywood’s elite.
Letters and numbers and graphic cuts (c) can be found at flea markets and
antique shows. (d) Some specialty printers can still create raised type, like
this HomeCompanion 10th anniversary piece.
Type Tips
To contact Claudia Laub, visit her website at bellalunaletterpress.com.
To learn more about the history of the printing industry and links to related sites, visit the Journal of the American Printing History Association at printinghistory.org, or visit the Printing Museum at printingmuseum.org.
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