Pay what works
Sliding scale
Prices are a range and you pick where in it you land. No means test, no explaining yourself.
One person, a pile of blocks, a lot of ink
Mar + Tierra is a printmaking and stenciling shop run by one person. Everything is carved, cut, inked and pulled by hand.
Relief printing is subtraction: everything meant to stay blank gets cut out of the block, and what's left holds the ink. There's no undo, and no two pulls land quite the same. The blocks stay in the shop afterwards, which is why a design can come back on a different surface, in a different colour, for someone else.
Some of the work is tender and some of it is furious. Both come from the same place and get made the same way — cheap enough to give away, sturdy enough to wear on your back.
How the shop works
No checkout, no bulk runs. Everything is agreed in a conversation first.
Bring something
Open to trades
Skills, materials, food, your own work. If you've got something to swap, say so.
Learn it yourself
Skill shares
Come carve and print your own thing. Tools and blocks provided, no experience needed.
- Prints on paper
- Semi-custom pieces
- Custom carved blocks
- Printing on your own garment
- Patches
- Printing sessions
- Short runs for organising
Get in touch
Everything runs by email or text. Say what you're after — a print you saw, something printed on your own shirt, a session, or a trade — and roughly what you can pay.
You don't need to know what it should look like or what it should cost. A couple of sentences is plenty to start from.