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  • St Bride Virtual Wayzgoose

    St Bride Virtual Wayzgoose

    Despite Covid restric­tions, the let­ter­press cham­pi­ons at St Bride are organ­is­ing a vir­tu­al wayz­goose. Details below!

    Due to the ongo­ing coro­n­avirus restric­tions in the UK, we have decid­ed to host a vir­tu­al wayz­goose on Sun­day 11 July from 10am–1pm BST online via the St Bride Foun­da­tion Twit­ter and Insta­gram accounts.

    https://twitter.com/stbridelibrary
    https://www.instagram.com/stbridefoundation

    We are invit­ing let­ter­press prac­ti­tion­ers, print­ers, and asso­ci­at­ed trades to share their wares with us on the day using the #SBFWayz­goose.

    All you will need to do is cre­ate an Instagram/Twitter post between 10–1pm BST on the 11 July shar­ing:

    • A photograph/s of your work
    • A link to your website/work/online shop
    • A short descrip­tion of who you are and what you do
    • Include the #SBFWayz­goose 
    • And tag us in the post using @stbridelibrary for Twit­ter and @stbridefoundation for Insta­gram

    We will then pro­mote anyone’s work/business who joins in on the day as long as the work being shared is appro­pri­ate and adheres to the above guide­lines. 

    Our aim is to cel­e­brate the fan­tas­tic wealth of cre­ativ­i­ty, trade and craft with­in the let­ter­press and print­ing com­mu­ni­ties around the globe, with the St Bride Library and Print Work­shop cham­pi­oning them at its heart. 

    This is free – no costs are need­ed to take part and it is open to all. Please share this with any­one you think would be inter­est­ed in tak­ing part. 

    Head­er Image: ​“St Bride Foun­da­tion Insti­tute” flickr pho­to by Howard­Lake https://flickr.com/photos/howardlake/3746315607 shared under a Cre­ative Com­mons (BY-SA) license

  • St Bride Event: Douglas Downing on The Dalziel Brothers

    A note from St Bride on an upcom­ing event.

    I am email­ing on behalf of the St Bride Foun­da­tion where I curate their events pro­gramme as I want­ed to let you know about a talk we have com­ing up that may be of inter­est to you and your fel­low mem­bers.

    It is being held on Fri­day 24 Novem­ber at 7pm and is being giv­en by Dou­glas Down­ing on The Dalziel Broth­ers. Dou­glas is a descen­dent of theirs so it will be a very rich and detailed talk about his research into the fam­i­ly and their work through­out the 60 years that they ran the Cam­den Press. Most notably, they cut the engrav­ings for Edward Lear’s Book of Non­sense and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Won­der­land and Through the Look­ing Glass and worked with many well known artists includ­ing Mil­lais, Whistler and Roset­ti.

    We are hop­ing to also print a keep­sake for the evening in our print room too and will con­firm this in the next month all being well.

    For more infor­ma­tion, you can vis­it our web­site at: http://www.sbf.org.uk/events/pictures-in-the-fire-or-great-uncle-george-dalziel-discovering-a-long-lost-family-history

  • Type and Press: St Bride Wayzgoose

    Type and Press: St Bride Wayzgoose

    A love­ly write up of last mon­th’s Wayz­goose at the St Bride Foun­da­tion by Type & Press.

  • St Bride Re-Opens!

    St Bride Re-Opens!

    A great relief — St Bride Library will re-open once a month from 06 April.

    There are some con­di­tions: includ­ing the request that you are booked in a week in advance, have a list of the things you want to refer to, and pay a fee to retrieve books; but a great step in the right direc­tion.

  • St Bride Library Closure: Update Roundup

    St Bride Library Closure: Update Roundup

    On 31 July I post­ed that the Library at St Bride’s was to close, but noth­ing had been pub­lished on the Foun­da­tion’s web­site.

    Around the same time Print­Week report­ed that the Library was being ​‘restruc­tured’.  The Asso­ci­a­tion of Euro­pean Muse­ums said –

    Giv­en the cli­mate of uncer­tain­ty which has sur­round­ed the future devel­op­ment of the St Bride Library in recent years, these announce­ments can only add to the anx­i­ety felt by the many schol­ars, typog­ra­phers and design­ers world­wide for whom St Bride’s is one of the fore­most inter­na­tion­al resources in the field.

    On 06 August the Foun­da­tion made a state­ment to clar­i­fy the posi­tion.  I’m rather selec­tive here in my quote, but I find this remark­able –

    Many of you will have heard wild sto­ries about the clo­sure of St Bride Library and the Work­shop. I am also aware that some peo­ple are under the impres­sion that the whole Foun­da­tion is clos­ing with­out fur­ther ado and that every­thing will be sold or giv­en away and that will be the end of the sto­ry.

    This is sim­ply not true.

    Dis­ap­point­ing­ly, the wildest sto­ry — that the library and work­shops will cease — is true.

  • St Bride Foundation: Wayzgoose Sunday 17 May

    St Bride Foundation: Wayzgoose Sunday 17 May

    The St. Bride Foun­da­tion will be hold­ing a Wayz­goose — a print­ers’ fair — this com­ing Sun­day 17 May between 11am and 4pm.  Details at their web­site!

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  • 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.