Guest contributor, letterpress printer
Tomasz Wieland
Tomasz runs a one-person letterpress shop from a former dairy. He sets type for wedding stationery, poetry pamphlets and the occasional parish newsletter, and has opinions about word spacing.
Tomasz Wieland has been setting type by hand for nineteen years. His shop, in a former dairy, holds two platen presses, forty cases of metal type and a cat who has never once been ink-stained. He wrote for Longhand in November 2025 on the one subject he cannot stop talking about.
Essays by Tomasz Wieland
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The Weight of a Line
A guest essay from a letterpress printer on why setting a sentence in metal type makes you write it differently, and what a line of lead knows that a screen does not.
