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Letterpress Courses, Tuition and Workshops

My first list of let­ter­press cours­es was very small: it seemed for a short while that the UK had giv­en up on pass­ing the craft of let­ter­press between gen­er­a­tions!  I’m pleased to say that the cur­rent list is large and grow­ing.  Bear in mind, too, that the peo­ple list­ed are like­ly to under­take print­ing for you.

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  • TypeTom, Bognor Regis

    TypeTom, Bognor Regis

    Tom Boul­ton runs Type­Tom, which includes print­ing and tuition.   Type­Tom also has a rather charm­ing online shop. Glamis Street, Bogn­or Reg­is, PO21 1DQ

  • The Bodleian Bibliographical Press

    The Bodleian Bibliographical Press

    The Bodleian Library’s Bib­li­o­graph­i­cal Press has both inter­est­ing press­es (and exper­i­ments!) and runs tuition.  Their web page shows the equip­ment avail­able (and types) plus details of cours­es. Cen­tre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

  • The Smallprint Company, Derby

    The Smallprint Company, Derby

    Come and learn let­ter­press print with The Small­print Co! Our work­shops show you the basics of com­po­si­tion and print­ing with wood and lead type to cre­ate a let­ter­press project includ­ing prints, coast­ers, cards. Along­side our sched­uled work­shops, we offer one-to-one and group work­shops at our well-equipped stu­dio. We have a wide range of orig­i­nal type…

  • Mostly Flat, Brampton Bryan

    Mostly Flat, Brampton Bryan

    Dul­cie Ful­ton’s let­ter­press cours­es.

  • Pixel Press, Stoke Newington

    Pixel Press, Stoke Newington

    Pix­el Press in Stoke New­ing­ton

  • The Grange, Ellesmere

    The Grange, Ellesmere

    The Grange, locat­ed just out­side the small mar­ket town of Ellesmere in Shrop­shire, runs res­i­den­tial short cours­es in let­ter­press print­ing (and also in book­bind­ing and paper mar­bling). Tuition is held in our press and com­po­si­tion rooms which house our work­ing press­es — an 1864 Albion, a Van­der­cook proof­ing press, a Stephen­son Blake proof­ing press, four…

  • The Paper Trail, Hemel Hempstead

    The Paper Trail, Hemel Hempstead

    Let­ter­press print­ing at this won­der­ful paper mill with Paul Wool­ley and a jour­ney­man com­pos­itor.  More details on the Frog­more Mill web­site.

  • Brignell Bookbinder

    Brignell Bookbinder

    Book­bind­ing-focused tuition in Cam­bridge

  • The Print Project, Shipley

    The Print Project, Shipley

    The Print Project, Ship­ley, West York­shire

  • Richard Lawrence, Oxford

    Richard Lawrence, Oxford

    Richard Lawrence, Oxford

  • West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield

    West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield

    West York­shire Print Work­shop, Mir­field

  • London Centre for Book Arts

    London Centre for Book Arts

    LCBA, Lon­don

  • Hot Bed Press, Salford

    Hot Bed Press, Salford

    Hot Bed Press, Sal­ford

  • New North Press, London

    New North Press, London

    New North Press, Lon­don

  • InkSpotPress, Brighton

    InkSpotPress, Brighton

    Brighton’s Let­ter­press Work­shop