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A letterpress studio's public face: a sticky nav, a serif hero with a type-specimen plate, a wordmark lattice, and a masonry wall of press cards — every section composed from the library.
View sourceSongyan Press · a stationery works
Paper that answers to the hand.
Letterpress stationery from a two-press studio in Huizhou — set by hand, inked in twelve house pigments, bound to outlast the inbox it announces.
Ink No. 04 — Qinghua
Printed for
Work
Recent presses.
Cards from the past season — series, proofs, and the numbers behind them.
“A letterpress proof is honest in a way a screen never is — it weighs something.”
Our paper comes from one mill in Jing County, aged nine months before it meets a press. The wait is the recipe.
“They set our wedding invitations by hand. My grandmother read them aloud twice.”
Studio
Slow tools, kept sharp.
Deckle edges
Every sheet leaves the mold with its feathered edge intact; trimming is a choice, not a default.
Vegetable inks
Twelve lines mixed in house — qinghua cobalt to zhusha red — lightfast and soy-based.
Set by hand
Metal first, then pixels: our faces are drawn at press size and cut back for the screen.
Bound to last
Smyth-sewn spines open flat and stay that way; glue is for envelopes.
Voices
What the trade says.
“Songyan treats a business card like a broadside — the small things get the loud type.”
“One proof revision, forty minutes, and the plates were perfect. The press still answers email.”
“The celadon series sold out twice. People keep the boxes.”
Editions
Pick a standing order.
Every edition is real paper on real presses — the tiers only change how much of the studio is yours.
Proof
One sheet, one color, our stock paper.
$0 / month
- Single ink on warm white
- Deckle edge finish
- Ships in ten days
Studio
Most chosenThe standing order for studios that send paper monthly.
$18 / month
- Three ink lines, your choice
- Custom stock from the Jing County mill
- Plate storage between runs
- Ships in five days
Atelier
A private press of your own, plates and all.
$49 / month
- Unlimited ink lines, mixed to sample
- Named typeface license
- Bound archive of every proof
- Ships in two days
FAQ
Asked, answered.
Fifty. The press does not care whether fifty is a proof or a finale — the plates are set either way.
Send the swatch. We grind to sample and keep the formula on file under your name.
The Atelier edition includes a named license; every face is drawn here and cut for both press and screen.
Our stock runs 110 to 320 gsm, and the deckle edge adds nothing to the weight — it is how the sheet leaves the mold.
Anywhere the postal service walks. Plate storage and reprints are handled from the same studio bench.