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Embossing With Makeready at the CJM

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is using our makeready for an embossing and collage project this weekend. The project will use embossing plates with different designs as pictured above. The back of the card is rubbed with wax and then an embossing tool is used to run over the waxed surface with the …

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Steamroller printing at Roadworks
Announcements Events Fall printing

Roadworks 2019

Painted Tongue Press will be exhibiting at Roadworks, a yearly printing festival held at the Center for the Book in San Francisco! Join us on September 22nd for an array of vendors, printing and bookbinding demos, and of course, the main event, huge linocuts made by local artists printed on the ground by a 7-ton …

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NY Now
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New York Now

This weekend Painted Tongue Press is participating in New York Now, through our rep Pamela Davis of daisyd & friends! New York Now is the largest wholesale trade show in America, with over 400 companies and makers featuring handmade work. The trade show runs Saturday, August 10th, to Wednesday, August 14th. Find more about it …

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Zine made at Show Me Zines workshop
Events printing workshops

Show Me Zines

This past Sunday, The Contemporary Jewish Museum hosted a Zine Fest to compliment their current exhibition, Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, a show which examines the empowered representation of fluid and complex identity. Beginning with the work of French Jewish artist Claude Cahun and her lover and collaborator Marcel Moore, the exhibition …

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Codex Crowd
Events

Codex 2019

The seventh biennial Codex was last week! Held at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California, Codex features a stunning array of artist’s books from people all around the world. Our greeting card line keeps us so busy, Painted Tongue doesn’t have any books to display… this time. But we are still involved! Bettina had her own …

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