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Workshopping at Women's Studio Workshop, Efemmera Reissue No. 8, Alder & Frankia, Storrs Mansfield, CT, 2025, Edition of 500 [Printed Matter, New York, NY. Photos courtesy of Emily Larned]

Details: risograph printed in 3 colors, tan and cream paper, staple bound and fold-out format; 4.375" x 11" (closed), 22 pages

Exhibition: Workshopping: New Work by Emily Larned, Curated by Faythe Levine, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, October 3, 2025 – January 23, 2026

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One of our favorite artist’s books in our special collections is Syntax Machine, by Emily Larned from her Red Charming Press. Incredible typography, exquisite printing, with gorgeous brushed aluminum covers...

[womenofgraphicdesign]

Emily Larned (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

Our Daily Lives Have to Be a Satisfaction in Themselves, 2017

Typeset in Eskorte, designed by Elena Schneider (Húsavík, Iceland)

“... a handmade book documenting 40 years of Bloodroot, the feminist vegetarian restaurant, bookstore, & work collective in Bridgeport CT. Comprising out-of-print personal-political essays by Selma Miriam & Noel Furie & many previously unpublished photographs by Noel, the book is Risograph printed, handbound, & about 150 pages.” (source)

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For Emily Larned's Book Binding Workshop, those in attendance learned about simple, non-adhesive book structures that are easily made without special materials or tools. These basic handmade books can be made as editions or unique works of art. This event was part of Strange Invitation programming and was inspired by Franklin Street Works’ Reanimation Library branch, which featured a physical collection of books that have fallen out of routine circulation.

“Marshall McLuhan said that when a technology becomes obsolete, it becomes an art form,” Larned says. “And that’s what we’re seeing with the book as it becomes supplanted by digital storage and search technologies.” Although the handmade book no longer serves its responsibility of recording the knowledge of humanity, it retains other qualities is has always had: a book is portable and requires no batteries or power, and a photocopied edition can be made inexpensively and distributed in public space anonymously. A book is finished in a moment in time, and is a great vehicle for aesthetic exploration, sharing of ideas, storytelling, and good old self-expression. “And maybe there’s also something to the fact that there will never be an untold number of other people accessing it at the same time,” Larned says. “It is limited and finite and physically inhabits the world – just like us.”

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New in our webstore! Here's the first interior spread from

Impractical Labor's 4th Annual Festival To Plead For Skills ($5.00)

Another beautifully crafted publication by our friends at ILSSA. The labor that went into this booklet may be impractical but it sure paid off in terms of aesthetics! Here's more about this group and the event that this publication was produced for, quoted from atlengthmag.com:

"The Festival to Plead for Skills is ILSSA’s key event. Rather than pleading, ILSSA members spend July 7 in practice. A celebration of the generative and meditative experience of slow work (ILSSA’s coda is the enthusiastic cry: “As Many Hours As It Takes!!!”), some of the activities from ILSSA members on July 7, 2012, are documented here. These are windows into workshops identified by a local (area code) and shop name. These are views of “impractical” practice: the peculiar act of practicing under the midsummer sky.–Elaine Bleakney"