British Letterpress

Tag: Museum

  • 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
  • Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft

    Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft

    Ditch­ling Muse­um of Art and Craft holds an inter­na­tion­al­ly impor­tant col­lec­tion of work by the artists and crafts­peo­ple who were drawn to the vil­lage, includ­ing the sculp­tor, wood engraver, type-design­er and let­ter-cut­ter Eric Gill, the cal­lig­ra­ph­er Edward John­ston (respon­si­ble for the famous John­ston type­face used for Lon­don Under­ground), the painter David Jones, the print­er Hilary Pepler and the weaver Ethel Mairet.

    Lodge Hill Lane, Ditch­ling, Has­socks, BN6 8SP

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  • Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

    Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

    The Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Gallery at the Muse­um of Sci­ence and Indus­try in Man­ches­ter includes a sta­t­ic print­ing gallery.  Not on dis­play, but in stor­age, is a col­lec­tion of linecast­ing machines: a short write up is by their 2015 Artist in Res­i­dence.

    Muse­um of Sci­ence and Indus­try, Liv­er­pool Road, Man­ches­ter M3 4FP

     

  • Amberley Museum, West Sussex

    Amberley Museum, West Sussex

    The Print Work­shop at Amber­ley Muse­um is looked after by enthu­si­as­tic vol­un­teers in this expan­sive muse­um.

    There’s plen­ty to see includ­ing recent­ly-restored Lino­types.

    Amber­ley Muse­um & Her­itage Cen­tre, Houghton Bridge, Arun­del, West Sus­sex, BN18 9LT

  • Press Here, Coupar Angus

    Press Here, Coupar Angus

    John Eas­son’s print­ing works, open to vis­i­tors.  I can per­son­al­ly vouch for an excel­lent wel­come!  Well worth a vis­it.

  • St Bride Library

    St Bride Library

    The St. Bride Foun­da­tion is home to the renown St. Bride’s Library, a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of let­ter­press (and gen­er­al print­ing) resources.

    Ben Wein­er from St Bride Library out­lines the class­es avail­able:

    In Autumn 2010 St Bride Foun­da­tion began to run reg­u­lar class­es in relief print­ing tech­niques at the Foun­da­tion build­ing in Bride Lane for the first time since the 1920s.

    We launched the new work­shop with a range of short cours­es that teach basic skills and give famil­iar­i­ty with some of the ter­mi­nol­o­gy, equip­ment and activ­i­ties essen­tial to let­ter­press work. These cours­es run in the day­time and dur­ing evenings and week­ends. Par­tic­i­pants get to use some of the press­es which form part of St Bride Library’s col­lec­tion as well as oth­er equip­ment includ­ing an Adana and a Van­der­cook press.

    We plan to cov­er the kin­dred trades, espe­cial­ly linocut­ting and book bind­ing. We also plan a range of more advanced cours­es that will give par­tic­i­pants more scope to cre­ate and ful­fil their own briefs work­ing with the guid­ance of an expe­ri­enced prac­ti­tion­er.

    We wel­come enquiries about our cours­es and hope to become a sig­nif­i­cant con­trib­u­tor to the let­ter­press print­ing com­mu­ni­ty. Full details of the work­shop are online.

  • Milton Keynes Museum

    Milton Keynes Museum

    Mil­ton Keynes Muse­um has a ded­i­cat­ed Print­ing Sec­tion, show­cas­ing the print­ing indus­try that has been in the area since 1878.  Inter­est­ing­ly, the major print­ing works of McCorquo­dales employed many women.

    Heather Kavangh has kind­ly pro­vid­ed the rec­om­men­da­tion, and these pho­tos.  It would seem that the equip­ment is used from time-to-time but not fre­quent­ly.

    Mil­ton Keynes Muse­um, McConnell Dri­ve, Wolver­ton, Mil­ton Keynes, MK12 5EL
  • Beck Isle Museum, Pickering, North Yorkshire

    Beck Isle Museum, Pickering, North Yorkshire

    The Beck Isle Muse­um, Pick­er­ing, North York­shire has a print­ing sec­tion based on a Pick­er­ing print­er that closed in the 1980s.  The sec­tion includes an 1854 Columbian and a Crop­per Trea­dle Press.  Friend­ly print­ers are often on hand to guide you through the process.

    Beck Isle Muse­um, Pick­er­ing, North York­shire, YO18 8DU
  • Cambridge Museum of Technology

    Cambridge Museum of Technology

    The Cam­bridge Muse­um of Tech­nol­o­gy hous­es a print shop which includes iron hand press­es, small press­es and Lino­type and Mono­type com­pos­ing machines.

    Cam­bridge Muse­um of Tech­nol­o­gy, The Old Pump­ing Sta­tion, Ched­dars Lane, Cam­bridge, CB5 8LD
  • Robert Smail’s, Innerleithen

    Robert Smail’s, Innerleithen

    Robert Smail’s Print­ing works — a prop­er­ty of the Nation­al Trust for Scot­land — is a time cap­sule of a long-estab­lished firm in the charm­ing Scot­tish bor­ders town of Inner­lei­then. The NTSs site shows infor­ma­tion about the print­ing works, along with open­ing times.

    Robert Smail’s Print­ing Works, 7–9 High Street, Inner­lei­then, Scot­tish Bor­ders, EH44 6HA