Here are a few of the places and people where I have found inspiration and practical help.

My own shop is here: folksy.com/shops/PressGenepy

Groups and Societies:

English Civil War Society – UK-based re-enactment group

British Printing Society – UK-based society founded for mutual support in letterpress printing

International Playing Card Society – Studying the history of cards and card games throughout the world.

Museums and Institutions:

English Broadside Ballad Archive, UCSB, USA – Fantastic online resource with text, facsimile and audio of early modern ballads.

Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium – World heritage site with a complete intact historic print shop with numerous historic presses dating back to the sixteenth century.

Suppliers:

Cornelissen(Historic Pigments)

Shepherds Bookbinders(Paper and bookbinding tools)

Intaglio Printmaker(High quality printmaking equipment)

Harry Rochat (Printers’ engineers and new Albion hand presses)

NB:Press Genepy has no control over these external sites.