letterpress - the shop

North Bay Letterpress Shop

letterpress - the shop

concrete floor
insulated ceiling
maybe 2000 sq. ft.
old walnut letterpress
cabinets    their shallow
drawers of type
dead-heavy drawers

so many tools
pica rulers, composing
sticks, type-high gauge, 
0.918”
solvents for this and that
one must learn which
on the walls
projects printed here

venerable presses, 
five or six or seven
well-cared for
yet once set down,
remain where they are      
orderly, this place
shop has its own map