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5:00 am

Letterpress Business Cards

May 14, 2016 @ 5:00 am - 11:00 am
The Printing Museum, 3121 San Jacinto St.
Houston, TX 77004 United States
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$105

Learn the basics of setting type by hand and letterpress printing using the table-top platen press, still widely available on the market. Learn the california job case, set type, use a pica ruler and composing stick, mix ink, ink the press and print. Each student will set and print his or her own business card. […]

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The TPM Listening Tour

May 14, 2016 @ 5:00 am - 6:30 am
The Printing Museum, 3121 San Jacinto St.
Houston, TX 77004 United States
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Throughout 2016, The TPM Listening Tour will gather together groups of Museum Board members, staff, volunteers, supporters, Museum Members, and the general public, to informal, small group conversations with the Museum’s executive director, Mark Osborne. Beginning Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m., The Listening Tour conversations will take place at The Printing Museum in its […]

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9:00 am

Public Printing Tour

May 14, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
The Printing Museum, 3121 San Jacinto St.
Houston, TX 77004 United States
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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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