Diy letterpress drawer

If I can’t find old letterpress drawers, I’d like to make shadowbox shelves like these

Easy steps for Repurposing and Cleaning a Letterpress Drawer. See my tools, steps and my finished drawer hanging in my craft room.

I love old antique letterpress drawers, or type cases. They make great displays for many things. They are expensive to buy, though, so I decided to make my o...

Vintage Type Box Letterpress Printing Drawer ✨📚 DIMENSIONS: 📏 Width: 65.5 cm 📏 Depth: 47.5 cm 📏 Height: 3.5 cm With the advent of digital technology, traditional typography has fallen out of use. 💻📜 Composing machines and movable type have become obsolete, preserved primarily for their historical value. Typographic furniture, such as drawers and presses, now seek new purposes. 🕰️🖋️ Time and use have given these pieces a fascinating patina. Made from sturdy wood, this drawer features…

Does your child (or you!) have a collection of small figurines? A letterpress drawer is an easy way to display figurines (whether it's a set of valuable miniatures or inexpensive tiny toys!).

Repurposing a Letterpress Cabinet: I was able to get my hands on an an old Hamilton Letterpress Cabinet. The only real problem, its' former owner was a sculptor/artisan and used it for housing type pieces that he used with his work. The insides of the cabinet drawers were covered wit…

Repurposing a Letterpress Cabinet: I was able to get my hands on an an old Hamilton Letterpress Cabinet. The only real problem, its' former owner was a sculptor/artisan and used it for housing type pieces that he used with his work. The insides of the cabinet drawers were covered wit…

And, yes, they now overflow into the kitchen!

When I was in Minneapolis at the Junk Bonanza with Cindy and Michelle, I picked up an old letterpress drawer. I’d been eyeing them at thrift stores for several years, but I wasn’t sure what I’d do with them. Well, after a few months of sitting in our dining room, I’ve made it fit in a […]

12 ways to use a letterpress drawer

Here are a few photos of my latest big art project. I found a few of these antique drawers that used to house letters at a printing press. They remind me of shadow boxes (which I have always loved)…

The hardware store can be a DIY one-stop-shop for unexpectedly beautiful home décor projects. Materials like rope, acrylic glass, tile, and even plumbing hardware can be used to create unique and beautiful home décor items.

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There’s a new piece of décor in my home that has me swooning nonstop: this here vintage wooden display shelf. I found it at a thrift store, and it was love at first sight. I’ve been looking for one of these for years! I believe it may have originally been used as a printer’s tray, […]

Transforming a vintage garage sale find into a new and exciting piece of furniture to give it a new life! Perfect for holding a found-items collection and real printing press letters, this coffee table was a real labor of love and is a definite conversation starter.

Did this myself using a Printers Tray and paint chips!

Letterpress drawer

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