Wayzgoose at the Glasgow Press

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

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

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 […]