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friendly prints for feral people!! 🏳️‍⚧️🎨🌈⚖️ Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜 amanda wyatt visconti (they/them) yr letterpress/Luddite coder/humanities pal free high fives & exclamation marks

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Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· 5d

The pizzapress shall return! (The prints below used birch cheese slices I lasercut, inspired by hearing about @bowerbox.com's work on Real Cheese Type; excited to work with some much sharper cheese now that I've purchased it!)

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· 23d

halp i've been bembo'd (nicks on back of type let you quickly scan type is rotated correctly & isn't mixed from other foundries; photo #2 shows how criminally intermingled fonts' nicks don't align)

Closeup photo of a wood case of letterpress lead type, with a battered post-it note warning "watch out / Bembo is in this case of Baskerville 😐" (two font names)

Photo of around 30 pieces (sorts) of lead letterpress type lined up on a metal surface, backs upward; blue digital marker has been added to emphasize how the nicks on the back of each piece of type don't line up, meaning someone mixed the wrong typeface into the typecase these came from.

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· 24d

y do u hide from me, good friend (cheeto day glo orange! literally optically brighter: bsky.app/profile/lite...)

Photo closeup of a jar of dayglo orange letterpress ink (PMS 804) peeking out behind more boring jars and cans of ink

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· 28d

For my 9x6" printing block test w/a pointing fist missing its fingertips (ran off the edge of the block), should I fix it when I print by adding: 👉 tinier pointing hands to the fingertips 🔤 letterforms (wood As as talons?) 🐦‍⬛ little birds? ❓ something else?

Photo of a wood bamboo cutting board engraved with a suitcuffed pointing hand where the fingertips are cut off by the edge of the board

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 12

That's a great idea that has not occurred to me! Yes, I'll work on that. (I've also got a v2 print started I need to get back to...

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with black ink. It says "dogges names of olde" in an antique font, next to a historical image of a dog playbowing st the sun

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 10

"i like big wood type (& smol type, 2) & i cannot lie" is...a letterpress poster extolling The Biggest Sorts! It includes a print from the "made w/💜 by a trans ✅ printer ✅ ally 🏳️‍⚧️" typehigh maple printing block I designed, lasercut, & color in w/art marker: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/i-li...

Photo of a letterpress print on white 19" tall x 13" wide paper with dayglo blue-purple and red-orange ink. It says "i like big!! (& smol type, 2) wood type & i cannot lie" in blue; the letters of "wood" and "type" each fill about 40% of the page's height. "Wood" was printed in blue; had a band of orange words in various sizes, typefaces, and orientations printed over it; then was printed again over that in the same place as its first instance, in blue. The words are "big", "wood", and "type". One of each of those words is also printed in orange using a shadowed font, vertically among the spaces between the letters of the large word "type". A small trans flag is next to small text that says "made with 💜 by a trans [checked checkbox] printer [checked checkbox] ally". There are several decorative printers fists (pointing hands) and exclamation marks

Meme-y image, using the book cover of "Identifying Wood: Accurate Results with Simple Tools", which originally shows a bespectacled, shirt-and-tie person peer through a loupe intently at a large block of wood. The title has been modified with neon green silly-font type to say "Identifying Big Wood Type", wolfproofpress.com replaces the author, and a large wood-type M replaces the block of wood to become the object the person is studiously peering at. The speech "its type (big)" is in neon green typewriter font from a line from the person's mouth. There is decorative edging on the image using rainbow animal prints, and a spherically-wooled sheep in front of an '80s sunset image.

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 10

"A hydroponics of care": inspired by a 🏳️‍⚧️ reading of "they tried to bury us; they didn't know we were seeds" + my commitment to letting folks know their goodness regularly while they're here to hear it—from the call to give folks flowers now not just in eulogy store.wolfproofpress.com/product/hydr...

Photo of a letterpress print poster that says "I want a hydroponics of care: see us, water us as / seeds / before we are buried" in orange, green, and a blues gradient ink, with blue prints from sunflower seeds over the orange word "seeds"

Photo of a letterpress print poster that says "I want a hydroponics of care: see us, water us as / seeds / before we are buried" in orange overlaid with black, green, and a blues gradient ink

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 10

"Pomegranates": text from @wynkenhimself.bsky.social's beautiful zine on the power of community, on eternity through the care we take for others, & being the ones we are waiting for. store.wolfproofpress.com/product/pomegranates-from-sarah-werner 100% profit from this print now goes to mutual aid! +

Photo of a letterpress print on tan chipboard paper with blue-violet ink. It says "to be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate", followed by a long text from the conclusion of a zine by Sarah Werner: "To be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate is to look at our world and say, No, it does not stay as it is, No, the future is not yet written, Yes, we can repair the world, Yes, I will be there for you and for the children of our children's children's children. We will be as many as the seeds of a pomegranate and we will build this new world one step at a time, one breath at a time, one act building on another until the seeds we plant today grow into orchards of pomegranates and mitzvot. I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised.
This is my new year's wish for you, my friends.
May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world.
- from Sarah Werner’s “Pomegranates’”
Running along the side of the page from the first use of the word “mitzvoh” is the text “*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with blue-violet ink. It says "to be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate", followed by a long text from the conclusion of a zine by Sarah Werner: "To be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate is to look at our world and say, No, it does not stay as it is, No, the future is not yet written, Yes, we can repair the world, Yes, I will be there for you and for the children of our children's children's children. We will be as many as the seeds of a pomegranate and we will build this new world one step at a time, one breath at a time, one act building on another until the seeds we plant today grow into orchards of pomegranates and mitzvot. I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised.
This is my new year's wish for you, my friends.
May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world.
- from Sarah Werner’s “Pomegranates’”
Running along the side of the page from the first use of the word “mitzvoh” is the text “*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity

Closeup on white paper print: "I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised.
This is my new year's wish for you, my friends.
May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world.
- from Sarah Werner’s “Pomegranates’”

Collage giving a rotated readable view of the print's sidenote text, running along the side of the page from the first use of the word “mitzvoh”: “*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity"

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 9

If you'd like this minimalist version of my rainbow Luddite "breaking machines & b/naries" print 🌈 before I get a chance to add hypermaximalist levels of additional text all over it, they're up in the store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/brea...

Photo of a letterpress print on chip paper with purple text ink and rainbow gradient image in. It says "breaking machines & b/naries" and has a historical image of a beckoning Luddite

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 9

woody guthrie says all u fascists bound to lose (book artists, we got the skills to help! & a non-bookarts "our community says" version for everyone too) store.wolfproofpress.com/product/book...

Photo of a letterpress print on tan chipboard paper with red-orange gradient ink. It says "Bookmakers and binders say all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on our gathering / bind us together; leave no one behind"

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with green and black with green shadow ink. It says "Bookmakers and binders say all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on our gathering / bind us together; leave no one behind"

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with green and black with green shadow ink. It says "Our community says all you fascists bound to lose / Justice hinges on our gathering / bind us together; leave no one behind"

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 8

Closeup from my "'broken' is a relative term" print showing the text "disabled craft is craft" in blue on speckled cream paper, between large letterforms in gradient dayglo orange to purple ink

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 5

#ICYMI "Zero chill but all the warmth". Little dayglo prints celebrating (it me) folks who could definitely be more chill sometimes, but are always caring: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/zero...

With a digital gradient border to make it square so fully visible on Bluesky preview, a photo of a letterpress print on speckled cream paper with gradient dayglo inks. It says "ZERO CHILL BUT / ALL THE WARMTH"; the first line is in dayglo blue, the second line in a subtle orange-red dayglo gradient

A photo of a letterpress print on speckled cream paper with gradient dayglo inks. It says "ZERO CHILL BUT / ALL THE WARMTH"; the first line is in dayglo blue, the second line in a subtle orange-red dayglo gradient

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of all-caps san serif letterpress wood type arranged on a metal printing press bed with blue gradient ink on the press rollers and type. The type says "ZERO CHILL BUT"

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of all-caps san serif letterpress wood type arranged on a metal printing press bed with yellow-red-orange gradient ink on the press rollers and type. The type says "ALL THE WARMTH"

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 1

I don't need your ID to know you're my neighbor 💜 or where you should pee 🏳️‍⚧️ Letterpress print is also up in the store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/i-dont-need-your-id

Photo of a letterpress print on 1 sheet of white paper with dark blue-purple ink on most words. It says "I don't need your ID / to know you're my neighbor / or where you should pee". "my neighbor" is in a horizontal blue-red gadget with faint striping, and "pee" is in a light blue to pink grant. There is a pink and blue gradient brayer border on the top and bottom of the print.

Photo of a letterpress print on 3 sheets of chipboard paper with dark blue-purple ink on most words. It says "I don't need your ID / to know you're my neighbor / or where you should pee". "my neighbor" is in a horizontal blue-red gadget with white flecks on top, and "pee" is in a light blue to pink gradient

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jul 1

"We keep assuming there will be this thing called history" - @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. Prints are @ store.wolfproofpress.com/product/this-thing-called-history; donating $5/print to @queerliblib.bsky.social as we fight to have a history on multiple fronts, & I printed this on the last day of Pride.

Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard paper with purple-gradient ink. It says a Matt Kirschenbaum Bluesky quote: "We keep assuming there will be this thing called history".

Photo of wood type inked with purple-gradient ink on a printing press under inked rollers, digitally reflected for readability. It says a Matt Kirschenbaum Bluesky quote: "We keep assuming there will be this thing called history".

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 29

🎨 process post below; or u can simply admire that i have unintentionally brought the height of 5-year-old humor words into our community printshop in the last month

photo of a printing press bed where the word "PEE" in large wood type is inked in a trans pride light blue to pink gradient

cover of my recent "everyone inks the tympan: how to change the tympan on a vandercook press" zine, where the word "poops" is struckthrough after "everyone" to reference the classic children's book

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 29

Shiny! spacing! (from Skyline!) (These go between lead movable type characters in letterpress printing, & at protecting the ends of a line of type.)

Photo of a square box neatly packed with silver shiny letterpress spacing in various sizes, with ends both rectangular and square

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 28

"pls wait" 🖨️

Closeup photo of an office printer with a "printers have persecuted me" sticker in old uneven type on it; the printer readout monitor says "Please wait" of course. There is also a sticker (not mine) of the Undertale Annoying Dog, and of the Horrible Goose holding a pride flag (also not my design)

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 27

I got a pad of vintage telegrams to print on. Unsent telegrams; messages from the past or future; pangram specimen sheets; serialize something across multiple telegrams; telegram from your pet; interesting real historical telegrams... Ideas?

Photo of a pad of vintage Western Union telegrams, with lines and labeled areas for where to enter various into

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 25

New Queer(er) Luddite t-shirts are up in the store! "Breaking machines *& binaries* that enshittify livelihoods... since 1811 (& much earlier; we have always been here)" 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💜 store.wolfproofpress.com/product/breaking-machinesand-binaries-queer-luddite-tshirts

Composite of a light blue tank top that says "Breaking machines & binaries that enshittify livelihoods... since 1811 (& much earlier; we have always been here)" with an image of a beckoning Luddite with whiskers and a dress; a rainbow inked printing block of the same image, and the digital text "Pride version of my Luddite critical tech tshirts & tanks are live" and "Luddite historically accurately rocking a dress & whiskers"

Array of white, light blue, pink, purple, blue, and black tshirts and tanks with the design from the previous photo: "Breaking machines & binaries that enshittify livelihoods... since 1811 (& much earlier; we have always been here)" with an image of a beckoning Luddite with whiskers and a dress. Link text: store.wolfproofpress.com

Purple-bordered image of a letterpress tan chip paper print with purple gradient text that says "breaking machines & b/naries"; digital text says "Queer Luddite print progress" and "there will, of course, be a LOT more text before print's done"

Closeup of light blue tank top that says "Breaking machines & binaries that enshittify livelihoods... since 1811 (& much earlier; we have always been here)" with an image of a beckoning Luddite with whiskers and a dress

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 21

💜 printing on alt papers: graph, penmanship practice, neon drugstore—& now telegrams in the works (👉 don't forget to sign up at tinyurl.com/iceoutprint if you want a free advocacy print in the mail)

Photo of a letterpress print on gradeschool lined penmanship-practice paper with black, dayglo light orange, and deep blue ink. It says "abolition is / elementary / 'Police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives' / ACLU SoCal rep., /
2022, Reuters summary"

Photo of a letterpress print in dark blue ink on neon yellow paper, sitting on an open business envelope; it says "ICE OUT" with the word "ICE" over the image of a hand pointing away. The print is sitting on the gray metal top of a printing press. Digital text says "Free ICE OUT letterpress prints, tinyurl.com/iceoutprint"

Photo of a letterpress print on white graph paper with light blue grid, with text in black ink. It says "Infrastructure is something we owe to one another / -Meg Smith". The I and E of "Infrastructure" are double height large letters as if to hold up a roof over the rest of the text. This print has lighter pressure and ink, resulting in more of the used wood type's pits and scars showing; these look beautiful, like stars and Milky Way in the night sky, not ugly

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 5

+ Uses traditional lead & wood movable type, and two acrylic printing blocks I lasercut from scans of my own marker drawings, then overlaid prints of in several colors:

Closeup of letterpress print in orange to red gradient: "("a thing with feathers")
a thing that sings when fed a crumb
& grows, whole loaves
to others you may never see,
a grace made, an *action*"

Closeup photo of a square of acrylic lasercut in raised relief for printing from my marker line drawing of an origami crane

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 5

I lasercut type+printing blocks for this print's Hebrew & pomegranate pattern in birch. "This is my new year's wish for you, my friends. May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world." -Sarah Werner store.wolfproofpress.com

Closeup from the blue ink on chipboard version of the print: "“*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity possible.”

Photo of birch lasercut Hebrew printing block for the word "Pomegranates"

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· Jun 5

Starting to get low on these prints, if you've been wanting one (they're complex enough I can't reprint more): store.wolfproofpress.com/product/pome... & store.wolfproofpress.com/product/hope...

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with black and gradient red-yellow ink. It is illustrated with orange and offset-layered red and orange origami crane images from lasercut printing blocks I made from my drawings. It says "Hope is a thing with wings

("a thing with feathers")
a thing that sings when fed a crumb
& grows, whole loaves
to others you may never see,
a grace made, an *action*

what if things
were a bit easier?

if we dream of
what could be,
& rise to find the
recipe in our hands?

what if we have
enough for all?"
The final three questions are arranged like birds-in-the-sky Vs.

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 31

Luddites didn't "fear tech", they understood when something's being pushed for profit @ cost to human wellbeing <3 store.wolfproofpress.com/product/brea... Ditto folks today & AI (including lots of folks who both code+formally study tech ethics+history; vs, like, your CEO or uni pres??)

Black tshirt with white text and image: "Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods / Since 1811", next to a beckoning historical image of a "Luddite general" in a dress

Light blue tshirt with blue and purple text and image: "Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods / Since 1811", next to a beckoning historical image of a "Luddite general" in a dress

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 26

Added this print both to the "get free advocacy prints w/your order" category store.wolfproofpress.com/category/fre... & the nearly as illustrious "Art 4 your kitchen?! 🍳" category, which includes antifa veggie puns, trans bread as a treat, & more 🍔 art store.wolfproofpress.com/category/art...

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with a gradient of various greens in the ink. It is packed with curving lines of antifascist vegetable and cabbage puns in wood and lead type, wrapped around a full-size actual print from a typehigh-sliced cabbage in neon green. Puns include “this machine kales fascism”, “in chard times, leaf no one behind”, “turnip the heat on ICE”, “stem the tide of legislated racism”, “Napa fascism in the bud”, “Romaine strng against hate”, “cruciferous and furious” (not really a pun), “lettuce resist”, “cabbage patch the holes in our democracy”, “squash fascism”, “thyme to show up for each other”, “endive deportations now”

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of wood letterpress type and bread printing block arranged on a printing press bed with trans blue-pink gradient ink on the press rollers and type. The type says "Trans joy! & a little bread, as a treat / Amanda Wyatt Visconti / WolfproofPress.com"

Photo of a letterpress print on chipboard paper with blue ink with a subtle blue-purple gradient. The text of the print says "To be as full of mitzvot as a pomegranate is to look at our world and say, No, it does not stay as it is, No, the future is not yet written, Yes, we can repair the world, Yes, I will be there for you and for the children of our children's children's children. We will be as many as the seeds of a pomegranate and we will build this new world one step at a time, one breath at a time, one act building on another until the seeds we plant today grow into orchards of pomegranates and mitzvot. I will die, we all will die, but we will also live on in this work. That is the eternity we are promised.This is my new year's wish for you, my friends.
May you find a way to take that step, may you find your community, may you become the blessing that we need in this world.
- from Sarah Werner’s “Pomegranates’”
Running along the side of the page from the first use of the word “mitzvot” is the text “*commandments”, literally— obligations we have to each other and to the world that create pathways connecting us to our best selves, making shared communities and divinity possible.”

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 26

Complex letterpress work can be silly, colorful...cheesy. If u remember California Pizza Kitchen, u don't gotta know what a "California typecase" is—but it's a letterpress type organizer that gave me an excuse to mash up 2 great tastes: 🍕! & letterpress! store.wolfproofpress.com/product/ca-p...

Closeup showing the Stymie-font "enjoy pizza AND fight fascism" text newly fit into three letters grid cells in the print, with small blue ornaments of pointing hands, plants, a dog head, and more in the cells around them

Closeup from the Pizza Typecase letterpress print: two cartoon tiny queer cowboys, under a speech bubble that says "CAMP", under the word "printing" designed to look like movable type; in blue ink

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 25

Do not fear, I do have a future print planned that will use the entire majesty of the "Hormel shower of packaged meats" historical printing block, in addition to these small cold cut peeks

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with gradient trans light blue to light pink ink, made with a historical printing block depicting a photographic shower of packaged meats in various shapes

Photo of a letterpress historical printing block depicting a photographic shower of packaged meats in various shapes

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 18

I have acquired stickers (planets, rainbows, neon) to add to the joy level of packaging+recieving my mailed prints (number of stickers corresponds to how much energy I have but really I should aim for the inverse?) store.wolfproofpress.com

Photo of a large rigid kraft mailer that says "pls don't bend" in marker and has neon pink and yellow duct tape, neon yellow circle stickers, holographic rainbow stickers, and stickers of multiple different plants

Photo of a large plastic sleeve around protective cardboard around prints, secured with stickers of multiple different planets

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 15

Would love to hear more about your work! Here are a couple of my historical-image lasercuts for printing:

Photo of two lasercut bamboo boards showing a raised and engraved beckoning Luddite

Photo of a lasercut bamboo board showing a smiling 1548 whale friend

Photo of a lasercut bamboo board showing a historical image of a dog baying at the sun

Photo of a lasercut bamboo board showing a historical image of a dog on a leash over a diamond mosaic pattern and the words "cave canem"

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress· May 13

5 color variants of Whitman's tireless search for human connection are now up @ the letterpress store ('til the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul): store.wolfproofpress.com/product/a-no...