Workshops

 

Register for Upcoming Workshops

Sunday, August 8, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

This is the prerequisite for our technical letterpress workshops.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Handset metal type using spacing, leading and a composing stick; lockup the form using furniture; and print a small edition on a tabletop press.

 
Saturday, August 21, 10am - 5pm

Chandler & Price platen

Printing on the workhorse of the early 20th-century.

6 working hours, $120.00. The C&P (ours is motorized) runs at 700 impressions per hour and is great for printing and scoring cards or other small items.

 
Sunday, August 22, 10am - 5pm

Vandercook

This is a technical letterpress workshop.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Technical basics for setting up and printing multicolor posters, books and more on our flatbed presses to get big results.

 
Saturday, September 11, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

This is the prerequisite for our technical letterpress workshops.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Handset metal type using spacing, leading and a composing stick; lockup the form using furniture; and print a small edition on a tabletop press.

 

Registration closed

Saturday, September 18, 10am - 6pm

Creative letterpress for AIGA / Baltimore

6 working hours with light lunch. Experience the fun of printing via letterpress without the technical details through a joint creative project focused on our Vandercook presses. Registration is throu

 
Saturday, September 25, 10am - 5pm

Vandercook

This is a technical letterpress workshop.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Technical basics for setting up and printing multicolor posters, books and more on our flatbed presses to get big results.

 
Sunday, September 26, 10am - 5pm

Chandler & Price platen

Printing on the workhorse of the early 20th-century.

6 working hours, $120.00. The C&P (ours is motorized) runs at 700 impressions per hour and is great for printing and scoring cards or other small items.

 

Registration closed

Saturday, October 9, 10am - 5pm

Creative letterpress for the Delaware Art Museum

6 working hours & light lunch. Experience the fun of printing via letterpress using wood & metal type without the technical details to produce a joint creative book project.

 
Sunday, October 10, 10am - 5pm

Metal type composition

Prerequisite for all our technical letterpress workshops.

6 working hours with light lunch, $120. Handset metal type using spacing, leading and a composing stick; lockup the form using furniture; and print a small edition on a tabletop press.

 
Saturday, October 23, 10am - 5pm

Chandler & Price platen

Printing on the workhorse of the early 20th-century.

6 working hours, $120.00. Operation of the platen press (both motorized / C & P and treadled / Golding), working with handset type & photopolymer plates, makeready, etc.

 
Sunday, October 24, 10am - 5pm

Vandercook

Working with a flatbed cylinder press

6 working hours plus a light lunch, $120.00. The basics to setting up and printing on one of the simpler presses for getting big results. One of our workhorses.

 

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