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December 11, 2007
Letterpress Printing in San Francisco
We’ve featured many letterpress artists here at The Modern Letter, and if you’d like to try your hand at this old-fashioned technique, the San Francisco Center for the Book offers a series of classes for people in the area.
SFCB’s printing curriculum teaches the basics of letterpress printing and has classes for beginners as well as more experienced printers. Upcoming sessions include:
Letterpress Cards and Handmade Envelopes with Megan Adie
Fri Dec 14 9am-6pm
$130 plus $20 materials fee
Produce an impressive pile of cards, postcards and unique envelopes – all in a handmade portfolio. You'll print up to 20 cards and postcards, using varied colors, media, and techniques (wood type, linoleum, and photopolymer plates) on the Center's Vandercook presses. Finish the cards using our corner rounder, perforator, and more.
Letterpress I with Mary Laird
Mon Dec 17 9am-6pm
$130 plus $15 materials fee
Learn the basics of setting type using the Vandercook. Mary teaches how to determine paper grain, use a pica ruler, mix ink, ink the press and print. After deciding on a theme, students pair off to produce either a broadside (a one-sheet poster) or a chapbook (including a colophon, text, title and half-title page). We'll pull proofs, make corrections and print multiple copies; then we'll distribute type and spacing, and clean up. For the chapbook, we'll also cut and wax thread and sew one book as a sample for finishing the edition at home.
Letterpress II with Megan Adie
Sun Jan 06, 2008 9am-6pm
$130 plus $15 materials fee
This workshop gives you more working time on the press. You'll set your own text and print a collaborative project, delving deeper into the complexities of lockup and registration, learning how to make sure the job stick is squared, setting roller height, and printing from photopolymer plates. The class also covers the subtle nature of line spacing, word spacing and all-caps spacing; goes further into the inking process; and ends with sorting and distributing type.
A full list of letterpress workshops can be found here and you can register by calling or faxing in an enrollment form.
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