Printers tray

VILLA AND ROSE create unique artworks within old wooden letterpress printers trays. Often quirky and filled with vintage items & old antique elements these are put together to produce visually stunning and always fascinating framed artworks which can be hung on the wall.

Hellbox Series: No. 4, 2006

Easy steps to repurpose and clean a letterpress printer drawer. See my tools, steps and my finished drawer hanging in my craft room.

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I’m back from a whirlwind week of work & packing for our move! We leave our house Saturday and I’m bittersweet about it. We’ve been trying to take some time to enjoy our house as much as possible before we move & one of our favorite things to do is to take walks & spend time […]

Inside: 12 Cards of Christmas series 10th anniversary celebration with tutorials and giveaway I can't believe it has been 10 years since I started the 12 Cards of Christmas series. This handmade card tutorial series has been so popular and successful it resulted in two ebooks: 48 Christmas Card Ideas and 48 MORE Christmas Card Ideas. It's that time of the year again where I postie tutorials, but this year we also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series. These are going to be the best…

That's it! The countdown style clock is ticking in my head. Only 4 weeks to go til the preview of 'Water & Light' at Heart gallery in Hebden Bridge. I took the finished work to the framers yesterday. The delivery included two new Printer's Trays. This one is of trees: and this one is on…

Learn how to style a vintage printer's tray in a few simple steps.

Back in the days before Photoshop and home computing, typesetters kept their characters in these wooden trays. We found this one in an antique shop somewhere and my wife has turned it into a Knick-Knack tray that hangs on our great room wall. I spent a few years sitting at a tray just like this, setting type for "hand lettered" certificates. It was not a lot of fun, but somehow, this tray, while reminding me of a far harder life, still makes me smile.