Skillful Facilitation: Lead & Roses Letterpress Printed Card

SKILLFUL FACILITATION CREATES SPACE FOR TRANSFORMATION.
4.25 x 5.5in (A2) letterpress printed folded card with white cotton envelope.

How it’s Printed
Letterpress printed using hand-set antique lead type & vintage cuts (printing blocks) of flowers. Card backs are printed with photopolymer plates.

About this Design
How much do we love being in a well-facilitated space?? It can make such a huge difference to be held in a thoughtful and generative way while we plan campaigns, make group decisions, work through conflict, learn new skills—the list is endless! Skillful facilitation is one of the building blocks of effective movements—so here’s a card to celebrate the people who help make the transformative part of transformative organizing possible.

About Lead & Roses
The phrase “bread and roses” is usually attributed to the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike & originated in a James Oppenheim poem:

“Our lives shall not be sweated
from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies:
give us bread, but give us roses!”

Bread & Roses has been used in many social movement contexts as a metaphor for the importance of art, beauty, & rest as critical forms of sustenance. Lead & roses gives this phrase a letterpress pun: much of the type used in hand-setting & printing these cards is made of lead.

These are cards to bolster the hearts of organizers so that they remain deeply invested in working for collective liberation for as long as it takes.

For more information about Lead & Roses, visit: https://www.radicalemprints.com/leadandroses

Interested in a wholesale order? Reach out to nicole@radicalemprints.com. Thank you!