British Letterpress

Tag: Courses

  • 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 to suit your project and expert advice on hand with our expe­ri­enced tutor and time-served print­er, Chris Bark­er. Dur­ing your time with us you’ll have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work on an Adana 8x5 or the Crop­per Charl­ton proof­ing press and there’s an Adana T/P48 for the more expe­ri­enced stu­dent.

    The Small­print Com­pa­ny, 2–3 Fri­ary Street, Der­by DE1 1JF

    07806 782109 or 07948 266652

    www.smallprintcompany.co.uk

  • Mostly Flat, Brampton Bryan

    Mostly Flat, Brampton Bryan

    Short let­ter­press cours­es teach­ing the fun­da­men­tals of tra­di­tion­al let­ter­press print­ing to small groups. Dul­cie will share her enthu­si­asm and knowl­edge of this arti­san craft, and show you how to set and print your own designs from a com­pre­hen­sive selec­tion of wood and met­al type, dec­o­ra­tive orna­ments and pic­ture blocks. Cre­ate a set of let­ter­press prints, greet­ings cards, post­cards, coast­ers, busi­ness cards, book­marks or any small print­ed thing that takes your fan­cy. Learn how to use a vari­ety of print­ing press­es, includ­ing flatbed proof press­es, Adana 8×5 table­top platens, a Van­der­cook No. 4 and a floor-stand­ing trea­dle plat­en. Work­shops are tai­lored to suit your aims and abil­i­ty. Please get in touch for more info.

    Upcom­ing dates and full details: http://www.mostlyflat.co.uk/workshops

  • Pixel Press, Stoke Newington

    Pixel Press, Stoke Newington

    Small yet well equipped let­ter­press stu­dio in North Lon­don. We run work­shops shar­ing our expert­ise and love for print­mak­ing with any­one will­ing to try it at afford­able rates. We like to think about our stu­dio as a space to think, a space for poet­ry and words.

    Tel: 0794373 5179
    Details of upcom­ing cours­es are on the web­site.

    Unit 24, Shelford Place, Stoke New­ing­ton, Lon­don N16 9HS
  • The Letterpress Collective, Bristol

    The Letterpress Collective, Bristol

    Nick Hand and Ellen Bills run the Let­ter­press Col­lec­tive in Bris­tol.  They run cours­es, under­take print­ing and organ­ise a print fes­ti­val each year.  Nick sus­pects (and I agree) that he is the only print­er to have a ful­ly fledged bicy­cle with a print­ing press on that has rid­den from Bris­tol to Mainz print­ing along the way.

    Cen­tre­space, 6 Leonard Lane, Bris­tol BS1 1EA
  • 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 trea­dle platens of dif­fer­ent sizes (Arab, Clyde, Crop­per and Eagle) and five Adanas. Cours­es are held over a week­end and are run by expe­ri­enced print­ers and teach­ers. Accom­mo­da­tion is in the Grange itself — a beau­ti­ful Shrop­shire coun­try house. For fur­ther details please see the web­site: http://www.thegrange.uk.com/programme/letterpress.html

  • 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

    Gra­ham Bignell runs short cours­es, based prin­ci­pal­ly on book­bind­ing.

    25 Gwydir Street ​‚Cam­bridge ​‚CB1 2LG
  • Richard Lawrence, Oxford

    Richard Lawrence, Oxford

    I offer one-to-one tuition at my work­shop on vari­ous machines: Heidel­berg plat­en, Albion hand­press, Vander­cook repro proof press, small table-top platens, etc. I also can take machin­ery and type to groups on my pink milk­float (Google ​‘pink milk­float’) for team-build­ing events, demon­stra­tions and fun.

    I also occa­sion­ally move press­es and equip­ment for peo­ple.

    Please con­tact Richard Lawrence to dis­cuss your inter­ests.

    Address: 50 Hurst Street, Oxford OX4 1HD. Tele­phone: 0781 209 4781 Web: www.richardlawrenceprinter.co.uk. Email: ZRLawrence@aol.com

  • West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield

    West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield

    Learn to print let­ter­press! This course will show you the basics of set­ting and print­ing wood and lead type, to cre­ate posters, books and sta­tion­ery.  After the course you then have the option of becom­ing a mem­ber of WYPW and con­tinu­ing to use our let­ter­press facil­it­ies on an open-access basis, with tech­nical sup­port on-hand if you need it.

    West York­shire Print Work­shop, 75A Hud­der­sfield Road, Mir­field,WF14 8AT.
    01924 497646
    www.wypw.org