platen press printin'

my first work on the platen press!
(an exclamation point: for my exciement at the act of printing,
not as a reaction to this haiku i printed...)

(i took a workshop at the center for book arts this past weekend.)

printed on a small hand press like this:

many of these small presses that sit on the table with a handle were made and sold as toys for kids- or as a useful household item. rad.