Visit Us Nov 16 at the Beaverton Holiday Bazaar

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Saturday, November 16, 2024 from 10am – 4pm is the annual Beaverton High School Holiday Bazaar!

Mythril Made will have a table set up with all of our products and a slew of new bookmarks, coasters, cards, and stationary, to name a few.  We have a lot of new themed content around Vikings, Narnia, Fantastic Worlds, Fae, Fantasy Libraries, and much more.

If you’re in the Portland/Beaverton, OR area, stop in, say hi, and grab some of stuff!  In addition to our little shop there will be tons of shopping, food, and music, all to support local artisans, merchants, and the students of Beaverton High School.

When: Saturday, November 16, 2024 from 10am – 4pm

Where: Calvary Parkside, 5755 SW Erickson Avenue, Beaverton, OR 97005

Sponsored by https://beavertonhighbooster.com/

Just in time for the holidays, new Mythril Made products!

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We’re always working on new things here at Heroes and Mortals, in particular our “side gig”, Mythril Made, where we make (mostly) handmade products inspired by fantasy and sci-fi.  Just released in our Etsy shop at mythrilmade.etsy.com:

Our “Scenes at the Shire” line of letterpress cards:

  • Get Well
  • Happy Birthday
  • Happy Anniversary

We love these cards as they feature one of our favorite pieces of artwork, an image of a comforting Hobbit hole we previously used on our best selling Christmas card.  Like all our letterpress cards, these cards are handcrafted and pressed by us on an over 60 year old press just as the printers of old used to do.  We think you’ll enjoy these cards for whenever you might have an occasion to use them and we have more cards in this line coming out soon so check back in a couple months for more options!

Ceramic Tile Coasters

  • Prancing Pony Porter
  • Shire Homes
  • Shire Homes in Winter
  • Shire Doors

We really like our recycled rubber coasters featuring “Shire homes and doors” with a beautiful water color painting on them so much, we needed to provide more options, so we printed up the same artwork on ceramic tile coasters too!  These are classy looking and fit nicely in any room and are washable should the Hobbit in your life spill a bit of coffee or tea on them.  We’ll have these available within the next few days.

Finally, our biggest production, new stationary!

We’ve designed a slew of new stationary designs for fans of fantasy that cover everyone from Game of Thrones, Vikings, and middle-earth, and we updated some of our existing stationary lines as well.  New in the shop:

  • Letterpress Stationary: Ring of Power in gold foil
  • Letterpress Stationary: 3-headed Dragon in gold foil
  • Letterpress Stationary: Tree of Life in silver foil
  • Letterpress Stationary: Horn of Odin in copper foil
  • Letterpress Stationary: “Shire Door” in green ink
  • Letterpress Stationary: Shire Home in dark gray ink
  • Letterpress Stationary: Wandering Wizard in dark gray ink

Here are a few more samples of our new products, but check out all of them in our Etsy shop at mythrilmade.etsy.com.

New Middle-Earth Inspired Products from Mythril Made

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The hobbits have been hard at work at Mythril Made (the print shop side of Heroes and Mortals Radio) and we’ve just released a slew of new products in our Etsy shop with more on the way!

Most of our new products feature unique water-color style artwork of shire scenes but all are inspired by Tolkien’s middle-earth, and since all were made by hobbits, they’re all great gifts for fans of Tolkien.

  • Metal book marks with shire homes and doors
  • A mousepad of middle-earth
  • Mugs with shire homes and doors
  • A one-of-a-kind thermal heat-changing mug with a design inspired by Tolkien’s works
  • Coasters (we know how hobbits can get late into an evening!)
  • Tote bags and brand new wine bags for the free folk on the go
  • New letterpress cards and more unique items coming soon!

And to top it all off, we had all new product photos taken by a fellow artist and Etsy shop owner, Angela of Those Yarn Girls, you can visit her shop at https://thoseyarngirls.etsy.com.

Visit our Etsy shop at mythrilmade.etsy.com and if you like what we have, please share our shop link on social media. Check back soon for more products, check our shop for sales or to purchase something, and if you have questions, visit our contact page, we’d love to hear from you.

May The Force Be With You This Holiday Season

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Product photo, MythrilMade.

Wishing that sci-fi fan of yours a happy holiday can span the galaxies if you use the force! Grab our newest line of cards and may the force be with you this holiday season featuring bold text with a silver-blue figure below on a thick light gray card stock.

Available in a bundle of 6 cards (2 of each design) or individually, check out our Etsy shop and product links below for more images and a short video of the printing process.

MM1100 Bundle of all 3 designs
MM1101
MM1102
MM1103

 

Christmas is Coming

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Product photo, MythrilMade.

Winter is coming…and so is Christmas!

Our new line of Christmas cards will warm, rather than chill, your heart with an eye-catching copper foiled graphic of a wolf, lion, and dragons, headed by the text “Christmas is Coming”.

Available in a bundle of 6 cards (2 of each design) or individually, check out our Etsy shop and product links below for more images and a short video of the printing process.

MM1000 Bundle of all 3 designs
MM1001 Wolf
MM1002 Lion
MM1003 Dragon

 

Have Yourself a Merry Shire Christmas

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Product photo, MythrilMade.

Just launched, our newest card and probably our favorite, “Have Yourself a Merry Shire Christmas”!

We love everything about this card, the gold foil lettering, Santa and his sleigh, and of course Gandalf enjoying his pipe while sitting alongside a very welcoming Hobbit hole.

Printed on cotton paper with soy ink graphic and lettering in gold foil, we like to think if a Hobbit made this card, it would look and feel just like this, hand-crafted with care and a site to behold.

If you have a Hobbit in your life, they are sure to enjoy this card!

You can purchase this card and see more images, a video, and printing details on our Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1354168933/have-yourself-a-merry-shire-christmas

Here’s an additional video of the printing process!

Victorian Era Christmas and Holiday Art Cards

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New to our Mythril Made shop on Etsy, Victorian Era Christmas and Holiday Art Cards!

We’ve selected 6 scenes from turn-of-the-century Victorian art of Father Christmas/Santa Claus and seasonal gnomes, animals, and scenery and turned them into holiday gift cards. We’re big fans of old school printing here and love the art and lithographic printing style of the Victorian era and felt these pieces made a nice complement to our hand-crafted letterpress cards.   Though we use modern techniques, our Victorian Christmas cards are reproduced to reflect the original art and style of printing.

 

Cards are available individually or in a 12-card bundle (2 cards of each design) at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1352636199/victorian-era-christmas-and-holiday-art

Lithographic Printing and The First American Christmas Card

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Product photo, Heroes and Mortals.

In addition to loving classic fantasy and sci-fi radio dramas, we’re big fans of old school printing techniques too, which isn’t surprising since one of our founding members is a Master Printer himself!  As we were contemplating new card lines for the holidays, one of the ones we decided to produce were Christmas and holiday cards using Victorian-era art which uses a specific printing technique called lithography.  While we’re not using that technique today on our cards, the history of it is very interesting:

In 1875, Louis Prang, a Prussian immigrant, published the first American Christmas card from his shop in Boston.  The method for color printing at the time was ‘Stone Lithography’, where the artist drew the images directly on to a polished limestone block with a grease pen. The block was moistened with water, inked then mechanically pressed onto paper.  To achieve shading and color variations the artist would draw ‘dots’ or lines in to the image. This shading and color is very much evident when you look at turn of the century color cards where the dots are quite visible.  In the early 1900’s the process evolved and instead of using a limestone block the images were drawn onto metal plates using the same principals.  You can estimate the age of color cards by the dot resolution.  In the early 1900’s thru today lithographic printing continued to improve with modern equipment and techniques that were able to use photographic means of reproducing the images onto metal plates, which is called ‘offset lithography’, which today we call offset printing.

Here are a couple videos on the process of stone lithography and offset lithography.

How Stone Lithography Works

How Offset Printing Works

Etsy Shop Name Change

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Welcome travelers, and shoppers! Our Etsy shop (which is what helps fund our radio station here) has undergone a name change to Mythril Made!  We’ve been using Mythril Made for our letterpress cards exclusively for a while now and decided that name fit our unique hand-crafted line of products better than Heroes and Mortals which was originally created here for our streaming radio station.

We have a few new lines of holiday themed cards coming out in the next week and are already planning our 2023 product line and for those that have seen or purchased (thank you!) our cards, we’re continuing to create one-of-a-kind fantasy and sci-fi inspired cards available no where else except…at Mythril Made.

Please visit our shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MythrilMade/ to see our full line of products.

New Hobbit and Sci-Fi Inspired Cards Now Available!

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Just released are four new hand-crafted letterpress cards from the Heroes and Mortals print shop, MythrilMade, inspired by Hobbits, Stranger Things, and Star Wars!

The first in a line of our “Favorite Things” cards was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien and Hobbits!

These are a few of my favorite things.
The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Silmarillion, Elves, Hobbits, Dwarves, Balrogs (kinda), definitely second breakfast, pints, pipeweed, bacon, the Shire, did I mention second breakfast?
But most of all …
YOU! (inside of card)

A beautiful drop-cap on cotton paper with soy ink (Hobbits were eco-friendly after all), crafted on a 60+ year old letterpress printer by hand using the same techniques master printers have used for centuries.

You can buy this card right now in our Etsy shop.

 

Also released are 3 new cards designed by a very talented 10-year old, Lily!  Lily is a huge fan of Star Wars and Stranger Things and she (with a little help from family on the quotes) came up with and designed these unique illustrations for our new card line: Galaxy of Heroes!

Stranger Things-inspired

On a Scale of 1-10, You’re an 11

Printed on cotton paper with soy ink on letterpress.

Available for purchase in our Etsy shop.

 

Star Wars-inspired

Wookie Here! Another Thing to Celebrate!

Printed on cotton paper with soy ink on letterpress.

Available for purchase in our Etsy shop.

 

Star Wars-inspired

Baby, Yoda One!

Printed on cotton paper with soy ink on letterpress.

Available for purchase in our Etsy shop.

 

We’re always working on new content and products and we’ll be announcing another new card (Lord of the Rings-themed) soon.  Please check out our Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HeroesAndMortals for all our fantasy and sci-fi inspired cards, announcements, and videos of the letterpress process.