Hazel & Violet Letterpress

Beautiful invitations printed for my event next month!

I have worked with Nancy several times for custom prints and every time they are beautiful!! She is great to work with on unique projects!

Hazel & Violet Letterpress is a unique establishment. The Letterpress is the focus of the shop. You can produce your own products or they can create a one of a kind original. During First Fridays they will demonstrate how the Letterpress is used and give customers a opportunity to try first hand. The space is shared with a local gallery so be sure to admire pieces from local artists.

Easily one of my favorite local shops in Phoenix! Beautiful cards, stationery, calendars, and so many awesome prints! Definitely a place to shop for gifts for others or yourself.

Hazel & Violet is one must-stop along Grand Avenue for a ton of reasons... Its day to day business (unique, high quality letterpress printing and workshops). Its contribution to the community via First and Third Friday events and arts programming. It's a cool space in a historic building. And the welcoming feeling you get upon entering, walking around, and visiting.

As a teacher of creative writing and composition, I was particularly interested to take a letterpress workshop with Nancy, which was utterly fascinating. Nancy was extraordinarily patient with me as I made lots of mistakes and had tremendous fun. I was so determined to hand-set one of my poems that I ended up renting time at Hazel & Violet over many subsequent weeks to finish this project, and Nancy was extremely generous with her time and attention to this utter novice. I came away from this experience with greatly deepened awe and appreciation for the true craftspeople of printing--as they have been the foundation of many of the freedoms people enjoy in contemporary society--and cannot recommend highly enough that folks from schoolchildren to seniors take one of Nancy's workshops and use Hazel & Violet's outstanding letterpress printing services.

Swinging by Hazel & Violet for a First or Third Friday is fun, but the Workshops are really where it's at. I had a fantastic experience there recently working on a special creative project. It had been a long while since I've done letterpress, and Nancy was extremely helpful with all of the details - the project came out wonderfully! Highly recommended!!

Looking for a unique, personalized, traditional or non-traditional wedding invitation package? Here is where you’ll find one! Being in the shop was inspiring. It sparked our imagination and moved us to step outside of the ordinary when putting our package together. From design to delivery, every printed piece exceeded expectations. Nancy and her shop are a treasure to the community!

I've ordered a number of letterpress print runs for fiancee's poetry business, and I've always been happy with the results. My orders have been fulfilled exactly as requested, the prints look great, and Nancy is always wonderful to deal with. I highly recommend Hazel & Violet Letterpress.

I recently moved to Phoenix and was looking for a studio where I could rent time on a press in order to continue my letterpress hobby. Nancy was super accomodating and helpful and I'm grateful that she and her studio are here. Letterpress is a great way to nuture one's creative side - take a workshop - and then start exploring all of the cool things you can make!

H & V is a magical space filled with old-fashioned mechanical presses, well-organized metal and wood type, a slew of cans filled with printer's ink in a rainbow of colors, and all types of paper in many colors and sizes. You can "get inky" and learn to print your own cards, coasters or posters in one of the introductory workshops H & V offers, or browse through the assortment of cards, coasters and stationery printed by owner, Nancy Hill. Hazel & Violet is open most weekdays, as well as most Friday evenings. Drop in during First and Third Friday to feel the thrill of hand printing a free poster. It's a wonderful way to get your message out!

This was such a fun and informative class! My husband signed us up for my birthday and it was everything I wanted. Nancy is an awesome person who will keep you laughing and smiling throughout the entire evening! We will be going back for sure to create more awesome works for our home!

Hazel and Violet is a smorgasbord of working vintage presses, the kind you've probably only seen in movies. Three dimensional metal letters of every style and kind, all backwards, arranged by hand, and inked up to crank out wedding invites, business cards, posters, coasters, greeting cards and stationery.

You can get your stuff made or make it yourself at a workshop. Great fun for creatives, designers, free speech advocates, stationery fiends, DIY-ers, nostalgists, the mechanically minded and ink-stained wretches.

Better yet, it's nestled in a colorful stretch of Historic Grand Ave., teeming with First and Third Friday activity, and a passing cast of characters every day. (Proprietor Nancy Hill is welcoming and skilled -- also wry, dry, and R-rated like many of the original hand-printed greeting cards available.)

I love watching the vintage printing presses doing their job...old machinery at work can be fascinating. Many pre -printed cards, etc., available for purchase....but wedding invitations, business cards, announcements, etc., can be custom ordered ... For real fun, gather a few friends and take a workshop to learn about Letterpress printing and do some yourself!

Nancy is very professional and knowledgeable about letterpress. I highly recommend working with her if you want quality results.

Take their Saturday class. It is super fun and you leave with some awesome products. Nancy and Michael are extremely knowledgeable and helpful.

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I attended a letterpress class yesterday for the first time. Michael was a great instructor and you could tell that he had taken classes and knew how to teach. The old lady owner however was a bully. She was irritated and became rude when I didn’t catch on quickly enough to the printing process and for not easily knowing my way around her studio. I ended up feeling stressed and rushed through the class. As a small business owner she should know that patience and kindness go a long way. Maybe she will be in a better mood when you take the class. I will never return.