About

Using poetry or prose of your choosing, learn to set and space lead type, ornaments, and/or cuts to reproduce and illuminate your words. With type set, we'll go over how to use the Challenge cylinder press, which is ideal for high-precision printing as well as refinements to the type form. Once we've finished, you'll trade prints so everyone goes home with an assortment of the class's work.

This course covers all material necessary for letterpress certification on typesetting and using the Challenge Press. With a little practice in open studio after this course, you should be ready to take the certification test and demonstrate your capabilities to safely and effectively run a press unsupervised.

Details

• Bring a lunch. BARN has a refrigerator and microwave on the lower level.
• This class doesn't cover use of the C&P Letterpress machines, or provisional presses. For information regarding those presses, or questions about certification, contact printandbook.lead@bainbridgebarn.org

Details

• The $10 materials fee, included in the cost of the class, covers all materials you'll need.
• Bring a poem or piece of prose between 65 and 85 words.

Class Policies

Ages 14 and up are welcome.