York Ghost Week
Limited edition prints created at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in collaboration with the York Ghost Merchants.
Inspired by a Halloween Greeting Card from the turn of the twentieth century, this poster offers a twist on a game in which girls and young women would stand before their mirror and ask to see the face of their future husband. In our reimagining, a ghost rises from York's ancient stones to whisper an answer to her questions.
Printed on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220gsm with hand torn edges. Designed, typeset and printed by Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, with an original linocut by Izzy Williamson.
Mirror
This print imagines a new chapter in the York Ghost Merchant's lore. Decades after J. Redferne began his search for ghosts made across the Yorkshire Ridings, and in the year of the Great Exhibition, came the precursor of Ghost Week – an exhibition of ghosts of all sorts, some moving towards that iconic silhouette.
Printed on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220gsm with hand torn edges. Designed, typeset and printed by Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, with an original linocut by Izzy Williamson.
Exhibition
Limited edition linocut postcard by Catya Ledezma created at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in collaboration with York Ghost Week.
Ghost Postcard Club
Advertisement
On 28th April, 1763, J. Redferne recorded that The Sorrowful Guild of Master Ghostmakers had opened their premises at St Saviourgate to the public. This print imagines the Guild’s first advertisement, from the same day.
Printed letterpress and linocut on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220 gsm with hand torn edges for York Ghost Week 2025. Size 30x42 cm.
The poem, by Wordsworth, was published c.1830 as a chapbook by James Kendrew, a York printer who specialised in cheap books for the masses. This haunting poem explores how the ties between loved ones endure after death
Printed letterpress and linocut on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220 gsm with hand torn edges for York Ghost Week 2025. Size 30x42 cm.