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.
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, […]
Print installation in London
September 18, 2017
Biblioclasm is a large-scale site-specific print installation by Glasgow-based typographer Edwin Pickstone, highlighting the contribution of print to social, theological, and political movements. For anyone in London, the installation can be viewed on Friday 22 September 12 — 6pm, Thursday 28 September 6 — 9pm, and Friday 29 September 12 — 6pm. The installation is […]
Open Studio at Quarto Press
September 1, 2017
The Quarto Press in Coupar Angus is taking part in Perthshire Open Studios 2017, and will be open to visitors daily from 2–10September. Letterpress typesetting & printing by hand, including visitor participation. Children welcome if with adult supervision. For more details see the Open Studios website.
Aldus Manutius digitized
July 6, 2017
Publishing @ Simon Fraser University and Simon Fraser University Library have digitized 21 volumes from the press of Aldus Manutius, printed between 1501 and 1580. They have been digitized from the collection of 106 volumes brought together by Hugh McDonald and his wife Jerry and were acquired by Simon Fraser University Library with support from […]
The Trust on Twitter
June 21, 2017
The Trust’s Twitter account @PrintScot has just reached 150 followers thanks to the founder of the Metaltype website — ‘Yesterday’s technology — today’, which is a treasure trove of information about traditional printing techniques, especially about hot metal typesetting.
Robert Smail’s Printing Works open for 2017
March 27, 2017
The National Trust for Scotland’s letterpress printing works, Robert Smail’s in Innerleithen, opens again for the 2017 season on Saturday 1 April. For details of opening times and how to get there visit their website.
Printing collection looking for a home
February 16, 2017
There is an urgent need to find a home for printing artefacts that used to be part of the collection at Newark Millgate Museum, until its closure in 2012. They include an 1837 Atlas Press and an 1840 Albion Press among other artefacts. If anyone is interested please contact Kevin Winter at Newark Museum to […]
Life in Letterpress
January 24, 2017
There is a major retrospective exhibition covering Alan Kitching’s life and work, spanning six decades currently in progress at the Lighthouse Gallery in Glasgow. Called A life in letterpress it includes examples of his work, sketchbooks, proofs, artefacts and equipment from his studio. The exhibition is on until 5 March 2017.
Tragara Press print shop
January 22, 2017
The crown folio Arab press owned and run by the late Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press, is being offered for disposal — preferably as a whole, within Scotland. It was in regular use until his death earlier this year. There is more detail in the PDF document which you can download through this link.
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