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Archives for 2017
Letterpress workshop in Dundee
November 18, 2017
Dundee Contemporary Arts are running a Festive Letterpress workshop on Saturday 9 December 2017. Learn the basics of letterpress printing using authentic period presses and type with John Easson of the Quarto Press, and make your own seasonal greeting card.
Open day at Edinburgh Printmakers
November 12, 2017
Edinburgh Printmakers’ annual Open Day is on Saturday 18 November this year. Enjoy hands-on events for all the family, or take part in a printmaking workshops and deomnstrations and studio tours. You can find out more about the Capital Project, as the studio prepares to re-locate to Fountainbridge in 2019.
Wood engraving course in Dundee
November 2, 2017
Dundee Contemporary Arts are running a four-week course on wood engraving on Tuesday evenings in November 2017. Learn how to use fine engraving tools to create detailed designs on the end grain surface of a hard wook block. For full details see the print studio’s website.
Autumn workshops in Aberdeen
October 31, 2017
There are still places left on workshops in November 2017 taking place at Peacock Visual Arts. There’s a bookbinding workshop on 11 November, and a mono-screenprint course on 26 November. If you would are interested in other techniques, such as etching, drypoint, lithography, aquatint, bookbinding or woodcut/relief contact john [at] peacockvisualarts.co.uk
Printing apprenticeships
October 28, 2017
Print Scotland, the voice of Scotland’s graphic communications industry, is able to fund 16–19 year old with a proper Modern Apprenticeship accredited SDS course. For more details, visit the Training page of the Print Scotland website.
Letterpress workshops at Robert Smails
October 24, 2017
Robert Smail’s Printing Works are running letterpress workshops again this autumn. Workshop participants will be able to use wooden poster type and hand presses to create your own letterpress artworks, posters and stationery, with Smail’s expert staff on hand to help. Workshops are running on Sunday 5 November, Saturday 11 November and Sunday 12 November, […]
Museum on the Mound to close
October 17, 2017
It has been announced that the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh is to close at the end of 2017. As well as the displays of safe-cracking and a million pounds, there is a unique display of the varying types of printing plates used to produce banknotes and the measures taken to defeat forgers over […]
Stationer’s Company archive now online
October 7, 2017
Primary sources from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London, have been digitised. The new Literary Print Culture website provides access to a vast collection of primary source documents for the study of the history of the book, publishing history, the history of […]
Edinburgh in Print walks fully booked
September 20, 2017
This year’s Edinburgh in Print guided walks for Doors Open Day, which will look the New Town’s links to the printing industry, andsome of the traces that can still be seen, are now fully booked. Future walks will be announced on this website and on Twitter — @PrintScot
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