blackbird letterpress

Name: blackbird letterpress
Address: 1607 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA, 70802, US
Telephone: +12259602453

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Letterpress stationery, handmade notebook & paper novelties

06/21/2026

So fun to have Brian Kelly here printing on the vandy on Friday! Amazing work 🐊🐍 Great to see you Brian!

Brian Kelly
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No teaching on fridays… so, Spent the day at blackbird letterpress in Baton Rouge today printing a solar-plate. Thanks again Kathryn always great spending time with you!

06/02/2026

Great Horned owl washi tape! We had this made this spring and have already reordered! Available in our online shop and wholesale.

05/30/2026

Incoming Dystopia owl tshirts available!
A good dog dad’s day gift (or Father’s Day!)
Or friend day or gal day or everyday

Perfect soft summer tshirt (minus the knit cap obv)

05/24/2026

The next few weeks are going to be wild. 🦊🐻 We’re moving to North Carolina at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Blackbird is packing up. We’re reprinting like mad trying to boost our inventory before the move. Here’s the bear hug card, an old favorite who jump started our wholesale side of the biz many years ago. I think we’ve printed this polymer plate over 30,000 times, original plate and original die.

Our online shop will pause in late June/early July but we’re fully open right now. And then we’ll be back rocking and rolling. More to come. Sign up to our newsletter (on home page) so you don’t miss out on some special specials over the next few weeks. And local Baton Rouge folks, need paper scraps? Reach out! We’ll have some things to give away.

I started Blackbird in 2003 and slow and steady we’ve made it 23 years and counting. Here’s to many more in the mountains.

05/18/2026

Keep your eyes open and
Your mind awake 👁️👀🦉

Happy graduation to all the folks graduating from schools or phases of life! New card now available.

05/13/2026

We’ve got cards for all the grads! Slip a 💵 or gift card in and send them out to the world. Congrats grads, hope you’re headed out to spread peace and truth. ❤️🧡💚

05/01/2026

As our democracy becomes more terrifying everyday, it seemed appropriate that we printed a new scary card today.

Just out here printing cards trying to get thru the days as our country implodes. (Haunted house coming soon)

hope yall are ok out there 🧡🖤☠️

04/13/2026

Everyday Wild has been out in the world for almost one year! So it’s good timing that I’ll be giving an author talk this coming Sunday 4/19 at 3pm-4:30pm. I’ll share stories about the process and how my brother Bo and I crafted the concept. Plus I’ll bring some of the original illustrations for you to see. What do you want to know about Everyday Wild?

From the ebr library website:

Everyday Wild by Kathryn Hunter and Bo Hunter is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the natural wonders hiding in plain sight. Blending mindfulness, art, and approachable science, the book invites readers of all ages to notice clouds, birds, plants, weather, and more—right outside their door. A joyful guide to slowing down, looking closer, and reconnecting with the living world. Join local artist, Blackbird Letterpress owner, and author Kathryn Hunter as she shares insights from the book and her creative journey.

Plus I’ll have copies for sale and some other nature inspired goods. Come grab a free bookmark and pencil.✏️

04/10/2026

Now in the shop! This notebook was made in partnership with Mariame Kaba, featuring the quote Mariame shared with us, “Hope doesn’t find us. We make HOPE through action & struggle”. Limited edition while supplies last. We will donate 50% of the sale of each notebook to Chicago Freedom School. Check out more about Chicago Freedom School at https://www.chicagofreedomschool.org/

from the Chicago Freedom School website:
“Co-empowering with Youth. Honoring The Past. Building Movements For Change. Rooted in the long legacy of liberatory education, Chicago Freedom School (CFS) provides education and leadership development for young people and adult allies to create a just world.”

04/05/2026

Rekindling my first love of letterpress type: lead type. Over 20 years ago flew with me to Illinois to bring a whole bunch of type back to Louisiana. The type grew to more type plus image cuts from New Iberia, LA. As I’m preparing for the big move to North Carolina this summer, we’ve started some big long overdue type projects.

1) I donated a lot to Nichols state university via to their budding letterpress space in the printmaking studio
2) distributing type that’s been set in galleys for a loonnngggg time
3) pulling all spacers out of type drawers and organizing them into bins (thx for the never ending letterpress inspiration for so many things)
4) moving 10 fonts of type into other drawers BECAUSE all the Caslon I have is in drawers in a homemade cabinet that don’t fit the cabinets I’m keeping - moving the type either by hand or with this vacuum I bought that has a hepa filter and museums use that told me about. Works great just really loud. We put window screen over the hose. And yeah I’m keeping some 6pt and some 8pt cuz yeah I’m keeping it…
** note: no cabinets are being refinished, old drawers are being reused and dusted out plus cleaning out 🐁 💩, drawers are all mixed and don’t match each other, but it works!!
5) finally I mean finally we’re proofing all image cuts and putting the proofs in a binder so I actually know what I have (it took 23 years to do this…..)

If you’re a letterpress peep that can use these Hamilton drawers with the tall front (I don’t know appropriate term for them) give a shout, you can have them. They may only be semi-clean….

Tedious work…. But is that an ironic statement since most of this is lead type? 🤪☺️ or maybe it depends on your patience level with lead type.

When we move and you’re in the area of western NC (or if you’re coming to - cuz we’ll be close) reach out, come visit, come print, whatever, they’ll be space and room.

Address

1607 Main Street
Baton Rouge, LA
70802

Telephone

+12259602453

Website

http://blackbirdletterpress.com/

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