William Blake: Patron Saint of Makers

The mad Englishman was on a mission

that makers can relate to. [by gareth branwyn]

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Copy I, 1827), an early example of Blake’s invented technique of illuminated printing and something of a proto-zine, with different writing styles, voices, postures, rants, and aphorisms.

Photograph courtesy of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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