A Letterpress Legacy with Lucky Duck Press

August 31, 2010 • Etsy, Handmade Portraits • by
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Here’s my latest Etsy portrait featuring printer Patrick Barrett of Lucky Duck Press in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Patrick inherited his antique foot-powered letterpress from the family business. His great-grandfather started The Sterling Press back in 1901, first printing paper goods and then moving on to cloth tapes. Patrick grew up watching his dad work the manual presses but didn’t express interest until many years later, after studying theater in college.

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Handmade Portraits: Old School Tools

August 5, 2010 • Etsy, Handmade Portraits • by
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Orien MacDonald, a.k.a. Old School Tools, grew up in Alaska and Southern New Mexico, where his parents were part of the Back-to-the-Land movement. His dad taught workshops in building handmade houses out of adobe clay and had a vast woodshop where Orien whittled his first woodworking project at the age of five.

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