Neither Abby Beckel nor Rebecca Saraceno nor I wore little black visors like these guys on the poster in the window of the Museum of Printing in North Andover, MA on Monday or Tuesday while we were letterpressing the covers of Tiff Holland’s forthcoming Rose Metal Press chapbook Betty Superman…

…but we did wear aprons and gloves and things. Witness Rebecca here, carving the linoleum block to make the central image:

We can’t show you the chapbook cover (yet) because it’s top secret (for now), but we can show you the Vandercook in action… …the bookmarks we made…

…and the boombox we used to listen to the radio, pictured here atop the bin full of cleaning solvent-soaked t-shirt rags:

Little known letterpressing fact: classic rock makes the work go faster. Led Zeppelin in particular.