Robert Smail’s Printing Works reopens on Friday 1 April for the 2022 season. Spaces are limited and access to the printing works is by pre-booked time slots only. For more details and how to book, see Smail’s page on the National Trust for Scotland’s website.
Letterpress workshops at Robert Smail’s
February 15, 2022
Spend the day with expert staff at Robert Smail’s Printing Works for a one-day workshop in Scotland’s oldest continually operational letterpress printers. Create letterpress artwork, poster, postcard, or greetings card up to A3 size. For all levels of ability from the age of 14 up. For more details, and how to book see event website.
February course at St Brides
February 10, 2022
St Bride’s Foundation are running a one day courses on using an Adana platen press, including hand typesetting and printing, as well as practical points regarding maintenance of the press, workshop management and what to look out for when purchasing equipment. It is running on 23 February. More details of the course and how to […]
Printing workshop at Glasgow Press
February 2, 2022
Join Glasgow Press on 10 February for a letterpress workshop, where you can create a poster using their antique Columbian and Vandercook printing presses. For more details and how to book visit the What’s on Glasgow site.
Adana printing courses at St Brides
January 3, 2022
St Bride’s Foundation are running their one day courses on using an Adana platen press, including hand typesetting and printing, as well as practical points regarding maintenance of the press, workshop management and what to look out for when purchasing equipment. They are running on 12 & 26 January, and 23 February. More details of […]
Quarto Press open to visitors
September 12, 2021
The Quarto Press at Coupar Angus is open to visitors for the Perth & Kinross 2021 Doors Open Day weekend, 18 and 19 September. For details of the workshop and how to get there see the Doors Open Day website.
Wayzgoose at the Glasgow Press
September 10, 2021
The Glasgow Press is staying the workshop for this year’s Wayzgoose on Saturday 18 September for Glasgow’s 2021 Doors Open Day. Details of the letterpress workshops are on the Doors Open Day website.
Quarto Press open for visitors
September 10, 2020
The Quarto Press will be open for the Doors Open Day weekend in Perth & Kinross (Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 Sepember): a wide collection of material and machines from the 500-year-old craft of printing will be on display, with demonstrations and opportunities to participate setting type and printing an item. Booking is essential — […]
Periscope Press acquires Victoria printing machine
July 13, 2020
SPrAT Trustee, Tim Honnor has recently installed a new machine at the his private press in Inverness. The Victoria printing machine may be the only one of its kind in Scotland in working order — it was made in 1932 and is electrically driven. The Periscope Press also has a treadle ‘Arab’ platen made in […]
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.
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation