About us

Founded in 2025, Hammer & Hemlock is a small press focused on small-run, limited edition handmade books and other hand-printed goods in Seattle, Washington. Using traditional printmaking methods such as block printing, Risograph, and letterpress, Rosie and Rebecca (the co-founders) are keeping the art of printing alive in an age when artificial gen art threatens traditional crafts.

Who we are

Rosie Pringle, Co-Founder

Rosie (they/she) is a Seattle-based artist, graphic designer, and chronic serial murderer of ink pens. They grew up in Tampa, Florida surrounded by the books of their English professor father and the computers of their technology geek mother.

Rosie moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2008 to study design at Pratt Institute. Rosie started their own illustrated merchandise company Supernature in 2020 before moving to Seattle in early 2024. Over her career, she has worked as a design consultant as well as an illustration freelancer and art instructor. Rosie is the Co-Founder of Hammer&Hemlock, which operates out of The Fishbowl.

Themes in Rosie’s art include subversions of mythological and cultural archetypes, humanity’s relationship with Nature, meditations on modern mysticism, and rumination on loss, death, and grief. Their current preferred media and disciplines include ink, watercolor, alcohol marker, calligraphy, digital drawing, cartography, tessellation, block printing, and collage.

Rebecca Ann Jordan, Co-Founder

RJ (they/any) is a speculative artist, art teacher, and author passionate about telling stories about the natural world and exploring alien ones. Using saturated traditional mediums, their work explores humans' complicated (and often mythologized) relationships with the natural world.

RJ grew up in Southern California surrounded by the brutal beauty of the desert landscape. She learned to experiment from her engineer father, a love of animals from her big-hearted mother, and the thrill of adventuring from her brother.

RJ wandered from theater to costuming to writing to bookbinding to printmaking, and is fueled by the challenge of learning how to make things. They graduated from the Clarion Writer's Workshop - San Diego in 2015, and then California Institute of the Arts with a Master's in Fine Arts - Creative Writing in 2016. They briefly moved to Colorado in order to meet the love of their life and learn about bookselling. RJ and their partner then moved to Seattle in 2018 and became deeply excited by the thriving arts scene. Becca founded Carapace Illustration, an art merchandise and services company, in 2022. Over her career, she has worked in nonprofit communications, climate education, and tutoring.

RJ teaches art classes at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Push/Pull, Reclaim Clay Collective, The Fishbowl, and more. In her free time she draws bugs, cuddles her cats, gardens, and makes weird stuff. See more and connect @beccaquibbles.