Ingrid Washinwatok El-Issa letterpress notebook

The story: Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, a human rights activist and Freedom Fighter for Indigenous Peoples in North and South America, and one of the amazing people featured in the Blackbird Letterpress line of Inspiring Women notebooks. The cover honors her with her quote: Until we make peace with the earth, there will be no peace in the human community.

More about this notebook: The notebook has a letterpress printed cover, printed in blue ink on ledger green 100# recycled paper. It has a sewn stitched binding, opens flat, and measures approximately 4" x 6.375" with 56 blank pages inside. 

More about Blackbird Letterpress: Kathryn Hunter began Blackbird Letterpress in 2003, after she bought a Chandler & Price 8x12 letterpress. Since she couldn't move the 1100 lb press into her apartment, her friends, Pudd & Leigh Anne, came to the rescue by offering their back room as a printshop. Pudd & Kathryn flew up to to the Windy City and loaded a couple tons of type and cabinets and other goodies out of a basement into a moving truck, and drove it back to Bayou Country. A collection of vintage printers' cuts came from a long time printer in New Iberia, Louisiana. The printshop grew up little by little in that back room from 2003-2007 until it was bursting the seams. Blackbird then worked out of a mural-clad building in Baton Rouge from 2007-2016, which they shared with a cool metalworking business and two frisky guard dogs. The printshop moved in Fall of 2016 and has expanded in space and equipment. They use the original C&P 8x12, along with a Vandercook SP15, C&P 10x15, and 2 Heidelberg Windmills.