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Jill Cypher
Lead Graffiti
Newark, Delaware

⬆ bouquet, a book of poetry by Deborah Arnold with Jill’s paste-paper interpretations of each poem. The deluxe version has a clamshell with cloth decorated like the books shown and a display cradle. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 and bound in a flutter book binding.

⬆ The October page from the Chesapeake Chapter’s 2025 calendar. Printed oversize in black and silver over a full sheet of paste-paper from photopolymers.

⬆ Abecedritype, an alphabet book of bookmaking terms. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 using wood and metal type from our collection. Bound in a flutter book format.

Mike Denker (1946 – 2013)
Stoney Creek Press

⬆   A memorial piece distributed to family members following Mike Denker’s death in 2013. Greg Robison wrote the text. The interior spread and woodcut illustration was designed and printed by Chris Manson, Crooked Crow Press, Rockville, Maryland. The outside folder was produced by Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher, Lead Graffiti, Newark, Delaware.

Lauren Emeritz
Abstract Orange
Washington, DC

⬆   Printed in 3 colors on a Vandercook using wood & metal type.

Roland Hoover (1929 – 2018)
Pembrook Press
Bethesda, Maryland

⬆   Printed a Vandercook using handset metal type.

Carol Maurer

⬆   Printed on a Vandercook SP15 in 3 runs (hand-rolled “8” and sun, calendar, and blind-de bossed waves), and hand stitching.

Ray Nichols

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Greg Robison

⬆   A keepsake given out at the launch party for the “Impartial Observer.” Need to put link to that website here.

⬆   A keepsake outlining the founding and wandering of his Peregrinus Press.

Casey Smith

⬆   The 4″ x 8″ cards are held in Zoom meetings to indicate attitude and opinion without interrupting. Printed on a Vandercook Universal III, the color elements we printed from various forms of bubble wrap on a Washington #5 iron handpress.

⬆   The November month of the 2025 Chesapeake Chapter calendar utilized a poem by Emily Dickerson interspersed with the calendar dates. An interesting element is that the word November was created from various letterforms (not necessarily the same letters) from the handwritten poem. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 in 2 runs.

⬆  Casey Smith took his friend, Felix Uwa Abuo, to visit Lead Graffiti. Conversation got around to “Let’s print something.” Maybe BIG because Felix was headed to the BIGGS Museum in Dover, DE. Printed on butcher paper using an iron handpress from 16″ linocuts of the typeface Onyx in hand rolled black and silver. Pretty hot for short notice.