BLAG
BLAG (Better Letters Magazine) is an online and brand new print publication about everything sign painting, featuring history, projects and most importantly the people involved with the craft. BLAG is the latest project by Sam Roberts, creator of Ghostsigns and…
NEW PRODUCT – Letterpress Prints
The history of Handover regularly brings up some beautiful objects, old labels, discontinued brushes, but nothing quite like these letterpress plates from the late 1940s. Found by our brushmaker carefully wrapped in paper – including some advertising window posters from…
The School of Decorative Art – Manchester
Steve Oxley’s School of Decorative Art is one of very few of its kind within the UK. The school, situated in Manchester, offers opportunities to learn and develop skills in Signwriting, Gilding, Woodgraining and Marbling, under the Bracket of Decorative…
Gallery : Historical Printing Plates
Having a clear out of our brushmaking warehouse recently, we came across these fantastic printing plates. The box they were in simply said “Printer’s bookplates” so we guess they were used for printing a catalogue – possibly litho printed, but…
Sign Update Magazine Feature – Brushmaking
Charlotte Wormley-Healing, Manager of A. S. Handover, talks to Sign Update Magazine… What hair is used in signwriting brushes? The ideal fill for a signwriting brush would be a fine hair with a sharp point and plenty of spring so…
British Letterheads feature in Sign Business Magazine, March 1995
We recently came across this article in a 1995 issue of Sign Business Magazine; the article details an early British Letterheads meet in Torquay, South Devon – spot the familiar faces! ‘Still in it’s infancy, the British Letterhead movement has…
A Sign of Times Gone By | Mike Meyer & Crane.tv
Man of the moment Mike Meyer can’t get enough of being in front of the camera lens. Here he is talking about his own history in signwriting, as captured by Crane.tv over a week of Better Letters workshops in Borough…