Felt & Birch Christmas ~ Celebrate the season with a timeless lino-cut style Christmas card, reimagined with exquisite detail, printed on a vintage Heidelberg Windmill letterpress, and adorned with luxurious hand-foiled accents .. . .
The Felt & Birch 2024 'Lino Cut Style' Christmas Card - Designing a lino cut in Photoshop allows for intricate precision and creative flexibility, seamlessly blending traditional artistry with modern technology. We design and make our own lino cut photoshop brushes that react in a simler way to traditional lino cut tools when used on a drawing tablet, this allows us to mimic the style of the sterotypical folk-craft artwork, while still maintaining the atitude of a hand made line.
The design is then brought to life by a laser cutting machine that replicates in detail the artwork by engraving a printing plate from 3mm acrylic plexiglas sheet, ensuring sharp, consistent details.
This hand drawn digitally manufactured printing plate is employed on our vintage Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress retuning us back top the analogue world, which imbues each print with a tactile, timeless quality, especially on sumptuous white linen paper. To elevate the design further we added gold foil accents applied by hand using our Adana hot foil press and a bespoke etched brass die to add a luxurious, handcrafted finish.
The design is then brought to life by a laser cutting machine that replicates in detail the artwork by engraving a printing plate from 3mm acrylic plexiglas sheet, ensuring sharp, consistent details.
This hand drawn digitally manufactured printing plate is employed on our vintage Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress retuning us back top the analogue world, which imbues each print with a tactile, timeless quality, especially on sumptuous white linen paper. To elevate the design further we added gold foil accents applied by hand using our Adana hot foil press and a bespoke etched brass die to add a luxurious, handcrafted finish.