Words Made Stone: The Craft and Philosophy of Letter Cutting

Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley is a renowned letter cutter and Marcus Waithe teaches English at the University of Cambridge. This book brings their worlds and their words into dialogue: a free exchange between a thinking maker and a making thinker. Among other things, they discuss a shared interest in lasting letters, and their creation, the fruitful interplay between the mind and the hand, and the human benefits of doing things well.


‘This book is urgently relevant to all kinds of current issues well beyond its immediate subject matter.’
ROWAN WI LLIAMS

‘A triumph. I kept coming across poems and people I have known and loved, and kept being surprised by insights from this humane practice of a lifetime of lettering.’
EDMUND DE WAAL