Sometimes we opt to add some colour by hand painting onto prints. In this case, the colours added are Windsor and Newton inks and highlight a small part of the pictures. The addition of colour adds a distinctive touch to each piece, making no two pieces exactly the same.
Hand colouring is quite meditative and something we enjoy doing on hot summer days.
Engaging with our client companies and selling at wholesale prices offers Ruru Artisans a powerful strategy for growth and sustainability.
For many years, we at Ruru Artisans have love to, and indulge in a little bit of fun from time to time, support the creative
TH Pullan & Sons were an engineering company in Glasgow that specialised in printing machinery and proof presses. They went into liquidation c.1906, so it is difficult finding any actual information about the company or their products.
This press is a wonderful example of industrial revolution engineering. Fully hand crafted and even after years of misuse and neglect, is still completely flat and square.
