Liberation Struggle: Lead & Roses Letterpress Printed Card
GRATEFUL TO BE IN THIS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION WITH YOU.
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
This one is for those folks that are just so politically solid that they can make even the hardest organizing situations or the roughest losses still feel worth it. Folks who have your back and move with principle, and also know when it’s time to pause & celebrate a win. Even in the midst of these sometimes crushing fights, we have each other. What a gift.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!
GRATEFUL TO BE IN THIS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION WITH YOU.
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
This one is for those folks that are just so politically solid that they can make even the hardest organizing situations or the roughest losses still feel worth it. Folks who have your back and move with principle, and also know when it’s time to pause & celebrate a win. Even in the midst of these sometimes crushing fights, we have each other. What a gift.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!
GRATEFUL TO BE IN THIS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION WITH YOU.
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
This one is for those folks that are just so politically solid that they can make even the hardest organizing situations or the roughest losses still feel worth it. Folks who have your back and move with principle, and also know when it’s time to pause & celebrate a win. Even in the midst of these sometimes crushing fights, we have each other. What a gift.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!
