A combination of 3 & 4

The author, a lady by the name of Christian Isobel Johnstone, was also a printer, but published this book anonymously.

Ist fragment done, complete with ghost #bee. Typeset in 6 sections, not enough lovely Bell type, but it hasn't stopped us before! From the snapily titled Scenes of Industry, displayed in the Bee-hive and the Ant-hill, 1830 apparently for the younger reader. #letterpress #womenwriters Frost Box 3 Bee

A taste of #Spring, #letterpress test for future chapbook/almanac. This is an abbreviated version of an 1853 Almanac from Peterhead, it's a busy time for the garderner! The days are getting longer and warmer
#chapbook #artistbooks #Scotland

Tomorrow you have the chance to meet us in the flesh! Meet the Makers at Fold at The Barn Arts, in Banchory. Part of our showcase Old type new faces, on show till 25 April
#letterpress #arrtistsbooks #art #Scotland
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A huge thanks to all who visited @fruitmarket.bsky.social Artists Bookmarket this weekend. Great to see old friends & new. Thanks to the staff who were lovely as always. Thank you for all the support ❤️ #artistbooks #letterpress #artistsmultiples #Edinburgh

Didn't have time to do the annual #papercut so here's one I did many #moon ago, Si Ji Ping An- wishing you 4 seasons of peace & safety. Happy #lunarnewyear
#art #womanartist

A few of my #artistbooks that will be on the @frostpocketpress.bsky.social stall the Artists' Bookmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social this weekend. I will be womening the stall Saturday and Sunday 10.30 till 5, come along and say hello. #womanartist #printmaking #letterpress #Edinburgh

A little something new with us @fruitmarket.bsky.social Artists Bookmarket in a few days time. Printed in #letterpress on different vintage papers. #artistbook #two

Poster for Artists Bookmarket at Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh on 14th and 15th February 2026. Olive green background with text in white and orange, 2026 in black.

Frost Box 2 Neep. 8 different printed pieces all on the neep(swede/turnip/rutabaga) theme. With the box letterpress printed with the word neep in purple.

Looking forward to Artists Bookmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social in less than 2 weeks, 14/15 February. Our latest Frost Box will be with us along with lots of other goodies on our stall. Hope to see you there #artistbooks #letterpress #printmaking #art #Scotland

A touch o Scots for Burns nicht. From Frost Box 2 Neep, reprinted with kind permission of the National Library of Scotland, part of the Broadside ballad Auld Edinburgh Cries from 1860s. #letterpress #scottishlanguage #burnsnight #Neep Read by Anna

Collating neeps! The boxes are nearly there. #artistbooks #letterpress #visualpoetry #neep

Wishing you all a wonderful festive time. Thank you to everyone who supported us this year, you really are fantastic ❤️ #letterpress

We have a few of these fold out #letterpress #tree and #Star decorations left, they fold flat for easy storage. Star is 12cm high, £7.50 each including UK postage. Tree is 10cm high, £6 each including UK postage DM/email if you would like any. Hand printed on recycled card with eco inks. #Christmas

New #letterpress #poster #bookmarks fold up #Christmas decs and a special #2026card all ready for markets next weekend. Sat 29th at Deemouth Studios and Sun30th at Mill of Benholm. Look forward to seeing you there. #christmasmarket #Scotland #Aberdeen #northeast

Hot of the press for this year, and until the end of time, we bring you the Perpetual #AdventCalendar! 24 #letterpress cards, 24 mini wooden pegs and 3m festive string all in a fabulous letterpress box. These we be with us at Deemouth Studios #christmasmarket, Aberdeen Sat 29 Nov, 10 - 4
#shoplocal

Red text and poppy seed head print on manilla envelope. Text reads witness, repeated histories, swollen dreams, battles relived, buried but not dead, reborn in disturbance, coloured by the wounded, the lost

Hand holding back of envelope, text reads Aide-memoire. With black swallow and FPP

Today is #armistice day in #Scotland. The envelope seed packet contains #poppy seeds
#letterpress

Printed using the original blocks and type from the old Stonehaven printers, James A Bruce.

Shop front of Giulianotti's I Stonehaven, Scotland established 1899, selling chocolate sweets and homemade ice-cream

2 cards both with A Merry Xmas letterpress print, one in red and one in green

Letterpress card with Stonehaven Harbour in sepia and Christmas Wishes from Stonehaven! printed in green with a green Holly border

Once a year, we print exclusive #Stonehaven #Christmascards for our local confectioner Giulianotti's. This shop has been in the same family since it started in 1899, and still uses the original family ice cream recipe. This years cards are available now. #letterpress #Scotland #shoplocal

Ice-cream cone made out of different letters, chocolate coloured I, strawberry coloured c, mint coloured e. The word cream is biscuit/ cone coloured

New possible card design. If you are feeling hot, but who needs an excuse for ice-cream. #letterpress

All set up and ready for Visual Arts #Scotland #Artist and Maker market at Dalkeith Palace. Come along, see and buy real art. 10.30 till 4.30 today and tomorrow. #printmaking #letterpress #artistmultiples

3 yellow woodcuts of pebbles on sandy coloured Japanese paper, the pebbles have been painted over with bluegrey watercolour.

Woodblocks on press having just been printed with the print beside.

My contribution to #Coast Frost Box 1. Driftwood #woodcut and #watercolour on Japanese paper. The box is an #artistsmultiples folio/ephemera edition of 25 on a single word theme, from @frostpocketpress.bsky.social Different invited artists will be invited for the next box on the theme Neep.

Contents of Coast Box, page of chapbook, haar arrows, vintage map section, cyanotype with rudder, woodcut print, fish tallies, letterpress Postcard and envelope with pressed leaf and bird stamp

Frost Box 1, #Coast is now available. Featuring 8 pieces of #Ephemera #printmaking #letterpress #cyanotype and #vintagemaps. Should be on the website later today. We'll have these at VAS Artist and Maker market at Dalkeith Palace 15-17 August, just outside #Edinburgh #Scotland

5 different map sections with print over ship on 3 and shells on 1 and harbour scene on another

Sections of Scotlands #Coast, each Coast Box will have a unique section of an original linen backed 1930s #touringmap with additional #letterpress printed old printers stock block. #artistsmultiples #history #Scotland

Letterpress printed page of chapbook

Today's addition to #Coast Frost Box. Reprint of #chapbook page from Captain Ward and the Rain-Bow from 1780ish. Thanks to National Library of Scotland Scotland for the permission to print this. Typeset in Bell, which is from the same period, #letterpress printed on newsprint. #artistmultiple

3 tickets pinned to wall

Piles of paper tickets being stapled together. Each pile has a different boats name Conquest, S. Finest and Courageous

Compiling sets of Fish tallies for the #Coast Frost Box. These were paper tickets used for #fish catches at the markets which identified who caught the fish for reimbursement. #history now with the digital age. Each Coast Box will have a set of these. #letterpress #artistsmultiples

Old maps of Scotland with a flat box on top printed with Coast, Frost box 1

Something new on the way. Frost box #artistmultiple will have elements of #poetry #letterpress #printmaking and ephemera on a theme. First box is Coast

You'd think this was filmed in February, North East Scotland in May #letterpress #Scotland #springweather

Printed engravers illustration of a Curlew in black with part of a poem about Curlews printed on off white/buff colour paper.

Here's a lovely #thomasbewick Curlew or Whaup, as it's known in Scotland, for #worldcurlewday We are lucky to have about 40 or so #curlews enjoying the fields behind us at Frost Pocket, they loop round from field to shore wheeping all the way. #letterpress #britishbirds #printersblock #poetry

Curious about #letterpress printing? Frost Pocket Press are running half day workshops giving you a flavour of traditional letterpress. Email frostpocketpress@gmail.com for more information and to book your place. Sat 17 May, 1-4pm £60. Wed 28 May, 1-4pm £60. Sat 14 Jun, 1-4pm £60.