We are the Steady Press!
The Steady Press is a family business. Ashley designs and prints the things while Mike keeps our antique letterpress rolling.
A letterpress is a giant, heavy (often cast iron) machine that pushes an inked, raised surface into some paper. It's how things were printed before lasers and stuff. Traditionally, letterpresses have names like boats do. Ours is named after a boat- Stancomb Wills. Stancomb Wills was named after a person, Stancomb Wills.
Our Story
We’ve been enchanted by the powerful history of print for a long time. When we finally got our own letterpress, we realized that we were making too much stuff to keep in our house so we thought we’d share it with the world.