Misprints Letterpress Workshop

I am very pleased to announce that on Saturday 18th November 2023 I will be running a letterpress workshop at Spike Print Studio. Misprints! is a fun eco-friendly workshop for participants to make business cards and stationery using paper offcuts, misprints, damaged prints and seconds cut down and printed with letterpress type. This is a great introduction to anyone who has never printed or set metal type before.

Letterpress can be used as a very low cost way of creating beautiful stationery using the metal type and ornamental type in letterpress corner, along with recycled paper offcuts.

You will gain confidence and skills using the letterpress type and presses. It is useful but not essential to have previous letterpress experience.

In this workshop you will learn how to handle and set lead type, be shown where the best type is, to print it on the presses at SPS, to clean, store the form you have made for future reuse, and how to put it away afterwards!

You can  bring old prints, test prints and offcuts of paper. Ideally around 250-300gsm and heavier. Please cut down to the following sizes before the workshop: 55x85mm for business cards, 108x148mm (A6) for postcards. Sort them based on paper weight. Eg: all Somerset Satin 300gsm together. There will be blank card cut and available so don’t worry if you don’t have anything suitable.

Saturday 18 November 2023
10am-3pm
Spike Print Studio, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX
£60

Book here: https://spikeprintstudio.org/courses/misprints-letterpress-workshop-with-fiona-hamilton/