A short film about Baskerville’s punches will be screened for the first time at Winterbourne House in Birmingham on 12 February. It demonstrates Baskerville’s working methods and provides insights into his craftsmanship. The evening will also include talks about the wider project. The event is free, but booking is essential: see the Centre for Printing […]
Print Networks Call for Papers
January 6, 2020
The 2020 Print Networks / CPHC Conference will take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland, on the edge of Wainwright’s Lakeland Fells and will take as its theme ‘printing for tourists’ — tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists and tourism across the ages. […]
St Brides opening in January
December 28, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 15 January and Wednesday 22 January from 12 noon – 8pm. Email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space in the Reading Room is limited. Check the online catalogue and email a list of titles you wish to see […]
Residential letterpress and bookbinding courses
December 12, 2019
The Grange, near Ellesmere in Shropshire, offers a range of residential courses that follow the creation of a traditional book right through from printing to finished illustrated book — letterpress printing courses, bookbinding courses, and paper marbling courses. For details of the courses running in 2020, and how to book, see their website.
Talk on map printing by prisoners of war
November 24, 2019
Mark Evans and Ken Burnley are talking about The Brunswick Prison Camp Map Printers at St Bride’s Institute in London on 3 December 2019. They will describe how a clandestine press was made and run in a German prisoner of war camp (Oflag-79) in order to produce escape maps, towards the end of the second […]
St Bride’s Library opening in December
November 18, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 4 December and Wednesday 18 December from 12 noon – 8pm. Email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space in the Reading Room is limited. Check the online catalogue and email a list of titles you wish to see […]
Etching course in Dumfries
October 30, 2019
An Etching Refresher course will run at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries on November 30 2019. The workshop is for people who wish to refresh their skills, or have completed an introductory course. For more details and how to book see the Gracefield website — booking is essential by 20 November 2019.
November opening at St Bride’s Library
October 26, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 6 November and Wednesday 20 November from 12 noon – 8pm. Email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space in the Reading Room is limited. Check the online catalogue and email a list of titles you wish to see […]
Course in Inverness
October 20, 2019
The Highland Print Studio in Inverness are running an intermediate course on Relief Printing over six evenings, starting on Thursday 31 October. For more details and how to book see the Classes page of the studio’s website.
Talk at St Bride’s on Emery Walker
October 13, 2019
Simon Loxley is giving a talk on Tuesday 29 October 2019 at St Bride’s Institute in London entitled In Search of Emery Walker, looking at Walker’s place in the Private Press Movement. Full details and how to book are on the St Bride’s Foundation website.
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation