Getting creative in order to letterpress print for National Creativity Day (May 30)

May 30th is National Creativity Day, a day to show off your creative side! When it comes to printing many of the items in our print shop, we have to get very creative, especially if the engraving is not type high (0.918 of an inch). For today, Jared got creative to letterpress print four hand carved woodcuts all from the same box in the Lewis Winter Collection. However, each of the woodcuts are a different size and also of different heights so we had to get creative locking up the form for this. These depict different styles of shoes and these were used in local newspaper ads for clothing stores. These were carved sometime in the 1890s at Lewis Winter’s wood and photo engraving business at 627 J Street in Sacramento, California. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press. #NationalCreativityDay #creative #creativity #woodcut #SacHistoryMuseum #sacramento #museum #history #letterpress #printingpress #asmr #printing #printmaking #oldsacramento #ytshorts #youtubeshorts #youtube #shorts #shortvideo #springonshorts