The Write Path

What one woman has done women can do.
— Fay Fuller

This is an “unofficial” member of our series, a large 3-foot-by-3-foot steamroller print we created at the 2016 Wayzgoose Festival in Tacoma, WA. We also printed a small letterpress keepsake version of the piece. Both versions of the piece are printed as a two-color design.

Evelyn Fay Fuller was a teacher and journalist, and the first female reporter for the Tacoma Ledger. She is best known, however, as the first woman to climb to the summit of Mt. Rainier—a feat she achieved in 1890. The climbing party that ascended the trail after Fuller found the path strewn with her hairpins, calling it “proof that a woman had really made it to the summit.” Fuller went on to found several mountaineering clubs in the Pacific Northwest, and wrote a long-running newspaper column about Mt. Rainier after she made her ascent.

The Write Path is our first two-color steamroller print. To achieve the effect, we cut our giant linoleum block into two pieces (one for the shield, one for the background), inked them separately, then put them back together like puzzle pieces and printed them at the same time. One of our most popular designs to date, we created a small letterpress keepsake version of the piece in summer 2016.

Year created
2016

At issue
Women pioneers and the importance of perserverance

Edition size
6 giant steamroller prints, 200 small letterpress prints

STEAMROLLER PRINT SOLD OUT
MINI-BROADSIDE SOLD OUT