The project was dreamed up by Tony Guadagnolo, a letterpress friend. Tony loves wood borders and he cut this one with his laser cutter. He made 4 sets containing various groupings and variations of the pieces you see. The main design is that “double” you see in the top line. There were singles, doubles, triples and quads. There were also a few corner versions. You can see 2 of those at the end of the 6th and last lines.

The project was to use the border material in some fashion and an alliteration which is an occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

We had a hard time figuring out what we could do, but once we got this idea, we were really happy with the results.

Here is information about the tongue twister courtesy of Mental Floss. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/513952/history-behind-famous-tongue-twisters

Printed : September 2021

Client : Tony Guadagnolo in conjunction with APA

Size : 12” x 18”

Type :Supplied border material, ? (title), & ? ( credit line)

The border material was supplied in several groupings. The main border we used as text was supplied in single, 2, 3, & 4 elements to a block), along with 2 varieties of corner pieces,

Runs : 11 (needed more than those 4 singles)

Paper : ?

Press : Vandercook Universal III

Edition : 65