High Holidays 6

The Garlow Studio::The letterpress work of The Garlow Studio and Shulamis Press.
An Ornamental New Year

An Ornamental New Year

Tent Card. 7 x 5 in. folded over. Ten different Garamond ornament type pieces designed into an elaborate  factotum holding the familiar holiday greeting set in a 19th-century Hebrew typeface. On the verso, the colophon is set in another 19th-century typeface, Monarch, surrounded by the ornaments used to create the ornamental design. Printed in two colors on the Albion Press. 5772 [2012]

T'kiyah

T'kiyah

An early piece from the press, it welcomes the New Year season with a hearty blow on the Shofar. The woodcut, printed from a photopolymer plate, is reproduced from a 17th-century Amsterdam custom book. Printed with Paul Duesing’s 16th Century Typeface and a Hebrew face rescued from the Yiddish daily newspaper The Forverts. 10 3/4 x 4 in. 5757 [1997]