A Cambridgeshire man who has been engraving for 10 years, has triumphed in the Hand Engravers’ Association Christmas card competition. Ibrahim Batchelder entered a design that encapsulated the frozen close-up geometry of a snowflake. And the winning piece was silver die-stamped by Baddeley Brothers, who sponsor the competition every year. The snowflake design took Ibrahim around four days [...]
A filming project that features the craft of the die-cutting process and envelope-making happening right on our doorstep was too good an opportunity to miss. The production team at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who wanted to document our industrial manufacturing processes alongside domestic procedures, contacted us last year. And it is just part of [...]
A collaboration with a textile company has yielded impressive results after fibres from discarded cloth have been successfully recycled into paper products that can be printed on. Baddeley Brothers has been working with FibreLab to test printing on Papertex, the name being given to an innovation by the East London company. FibreLab is a hyper-local [...]
A casebound book cover that catalogues an abstract art exhibition was a perfect fusion of art and craft, and a meeting of minds for Baddeley Brothers and Paul Neale, Creative Director with Graphic Thought Facility. To Bend The Ear Of The Outer World is a catalogue to accompany an exhibition of contemporary abstract paintings held [...]
Jada (right) and Rose (centre) inspect the sheets as they come off the foiling press, before going to the die-cutting stage. Two students from Ravensbourne University have once again created a unique and inspiring piece that celebrates uniqueness. Rose Lwin and Jada Perry elected to take part in the Imprint Impress project, which is a [...]
A young apprentice hand engraver has visited Baddeley Brothers to see her winning artwork made into Christmas cards. Megan Rigby's engraving was the winning entry in a competition run by the Hand Engravers' Association, which is supported by the 160-year-old printing company. During her visit, she met with director Charles Pertwee and watched as the [...]
UPDATE: Congratulations to Notpla - 2022 Winners of The Earthshot Prize You might think a company founded 160 years ago, and enormously proud of their role in preserving traditional printing techniques, wouldn’t be playing with paper made from weeds. Foiled seaweed paper But you’d be wrong. The sixth-generation family firm championing the methods [...]
Reflect with us, as we look over the previous year, and celebrate all of the joyous moments and achievements that were made here at Baddeley Brothers.
A Surrey man who was the winner of a competition held by the Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain, and sponsored by Baddeley Brothers, has seen his work go into production. As part of Andy Beavan-smith’s prize, he got a behind-the-scenes tour of the 160-year-old print works, to see his copperplate engraving, "Santa in his [...]
Engraved copper printing plate, Andy Beaven-Smith 2021 Engraving, a skill so rare that there was recently only a handful of artisans left. But with an increase in workshops and competitions, this ancient craft of copperplate engraving is back in the limelight. And now with support from the specialist printer Baddeley Brothers, one such [...]
