

From the seemingly bottomless trove of Adrian Wilson’s typography collections emerges a treasure of handmade metal stamps from the late 19th and early 20th centuries used by the textile manufacturers in Manchester, England.

He has generously allowed The Daily Heller to revel in his earlier collections for goods and material imported from England’s colonial past. This installment includes a primer on how to make them, from the tools above to the blocks below.

How to Make a Textile Printer’s Block









