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Houston Printers Guild
The mission of the Printers Guild is to support The Printing Museum by promoting, practicing, and preserving the art of printing by the letterpress process. Are you passionate about words, letters, typefaces, and books? Do you thrill to the sight and texture of old printed text and small-edition fine printing? Are you fascinated by the […]
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Fundamentals of Letterpress II
Join veteran printer Steve Sylvester in our Letterpress Studio to continue the lesson from Fundamentals I. Students will print simple, two-color work; they will learn how to do make-ready, and learn how to safely operate both hand-powered and motorized letterpress machines. This class is required along with Fundamentals I and Letterpress Studio Practices for all […]
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Public Printing Tour
Be a Printer for a Day! Join a Public Printing Tour. Join TPM Artist-in-Residence Charles Criner on a hands-on tour of printing history. During your guided tour, you will learn of early forms of printing, participate in the hands-on printing of a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible pulled from a replica press, print a copy […]
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