| FRAMED BLOCK PRINTS BY ARTS AND CRAFTS PRESS |
| Founded by Yoshiko Yamamoto and Bruce, The Arts & Crafts Press is a small letterpress printing studio specializing in designing and printing letterpress note cards and limited edition block prints. Most of the designs are original creations by Yoshiko who grew up in Tokyo and studied sculpture at Tama Arts University in Tokyo. After moving to California, Yoshiko taught herself (with the help of wonderful mentors) the craft of letterpress printing. Influenced strongly by the ideas and ideals of the woodblock printing in Japan, Yoshiko first sketches flora and fauna she finds either in America or Japan--anything from fir trees, pines, maples, and poppies, to heron, koi fish, and crickets--and then after multiple drawings, water colors and oil paintings, she begins cutting the blocks. Sometimes she works with wood blocks, usually cherry, and other times she chooses linoleum. Yoshiko takes the blocks and prints each color separately on her antique letterpress printing presses. Now residing in a small coastal town in Washington, Yoshiko and Bruce enjoy working with apprentices and printers-in-training, to create the beautiful and useful note cards and prints for today. |
| All prints are 5" x 7" and are matted and framed in a Dard Hunter Oak Park Frame. The frame measures 11 1/2" x 13 1/2". Each print is made with acid-free and recycled paper and soy-based ink. Each priced at $99.00 Ship within 7-10 days |
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| "Japanese Lantern" |
| "Pinecone" |
| "Landscape" |
| "Fir Branch" |
| "Gingko" |
| "California Redwood" |
| "Oaks" |