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1980

Cooke Christmas Card, 1980.

In the early 80s, the printing industry used frosted glass table tops to direct light through the underside of the table in order to perform certain functions in the printing process.

Layering a piece of tissue paper over a fireplace image on top of the glass, Larry used a technique called stipple with a rapidograph technical pen to trace the image.

Larry and his wife Karen performed the finishing touches — in this case, layering the image on top of a hand-torn silver sheet giving it a deckle edge, and finally gluing it to a piece of red card stock.

You couldn't find this at Hallmark.

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A digital collection
of the official Cooke Christmas card.