Welcome comrade! - Lead & Roses Letterpress Card
WELCOME COMRADE!
4.25 x 5.5in (A2) letterpress printed folded card
w/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
Building leftist organizations and groups and spaces where people feel welcomed is a critical part of movement-building. This card is a small, personal way to recognize new members and/or to just welcome a new comrade to town.
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.
Interested in a wholesale order? Visit wholesaleradical.com Thank you!
WELCOME COMRADE!
4.25 x 5.5in (A2) letterpress printed folded card
w/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
Building leftist organizations and groups and spaces where people feel welcomed is a critical part of movement-building. This card is a small, personal way to recognize new members and/or to just welcome a new comrade to town.
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.
Interested in a wholesale order? Visit wholesaleradical.com Thank you!
WELCOME COMRADE!
4.25 x 5.5in (A2) letterpress printed folded card
w/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
Building leftist organizations and groups and spaces where people feel welcomed is a critical part of movement-building. This card is a small, personal way to recognize new members and/or to just welcome a new comrade to town.
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.
Interested in a wholesale order? Visit wholesaleradical.com Thank you!
