HALF TERM WORKSHOP Misprints

1 DAY WORKSHOP

Make letterpress business cards and postcards using your offcuts and misprints

A fun, eco-friendly workshop for participants to make business cards, postcards and stationery using paper offcuts, misprints and seconds cut down and printed with letterpress type. Letterpress can be used as a 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 paper offcuts, ideally around 250-350gsm. Please cut down to the following sizes before the workshop: 55x85mm for business cards, 108x148mm (A6) for postcards. Sort them based on paper weight, e.g. all Somerset Satin 300gsm together. There will be plenty of blank paper and card cut and available so don’t worry if you don’t have anything suitable.

Fiona Hamilton is a Bristol-based multi-disciplinary printmaker with a BA in Graphic Fine Art and an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. Her work explores themes of ecology, landscape, and interconnection, often using traditional techniques such as letterpress, etching, and wood engraving. Fiona has over 20 years of experience in the print world, including founding Soma Gallery and teaching at Spike Print Studio. Her eco-conscious approach and deep technical knowledge make her an ideal guide for creative reuse and sustainable printmaking. You can view her work here.

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