Painted Tongue Press Roadworks display
Announcements Events printing

Roadworks 2020

Roadworks is this Sunday, September 27th! The annual steamroller festival is online this year due to Covid-19, and while there won’t be a big street festival, you can view the steamroller printing via livestream throughout the day. Painted Tongue Press will have a vendor booth this year, and we will have greeting cards and limited …

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Box sets, limited editions, greeting cards
Announcements

Labor Day Etsy Sale!

We are offering 10% off everything in our Etsy shop, starting today (Friday September 4th) through Labor Day Monday! Head over to our Etsy shop for discounted letterpress cards, box sets, and limited edition prints!

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Assortment of cards for Patreon supporters
Announcements Fall New Product Winter

Cards for Patreon Supporters

Some news regarding our Patreon! Because of the pandemic and the reduced wholesale orders, we didn’t finish developing our fall/winter releases for 2020; these would normally have been printed in the spring of 2020. We’re still able to keep our shop open, but the time and materials investment for new designs isn’t possible quite yet. …

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Holly "Merry Merry" card
Animals Announcements Christmas printing

A Merry, Merry Printing Session

Since the Bay Area has been sheltering-in-place since mid-March, some of our reprints have had to be put on hold. At first, only essential businesses could be open, and much of our reprints were left on the table that week, mid-print. Everyone in non-essential businesses in the Bay Area retreated to their homes, and businesses …

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Magenta layer on Ice Plant cards
Announcements printing

Kim’s Printing Marathon

There was a printing marathon at Painted Tongue Press last weekend! Three titles were completely out of stock and two were needed to fill orders. Since red was on the press last, and it’s easier to clean the press and move from a similar color, I started with the magenta layer of the Ice Plant …

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