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The mission of the Houston 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 Printing Museum will close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, to get ready for the 2015 Gutenberg Dinner.
THE PRINTING MUSEUM HONORS WOMEN IN PRINT For over 20 years, The Printing Museum has honored persons with the Gutenberg Award who share the Museum’s mission of promoting, preserving and sharing knowledge of printed communication and art as the greatest contributors to the development of the civilized world and the continuing development of freedom and […]
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. […]
The Longstitch sewing technique makes a great travel journal. The name comes from the long running stitches that go up and down the spine. Not only does this wide spine lay open flat, the five signatures of paper inside give you plenty of room for easy sketching and writing. Our second book will feature a […]
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 […]
For the third year in a row The Printing Museum pleased to host Zine Fest Houston. This event is dedicated to promoting zines, minicomics, and other forms of small press, alternative, underground, and diy media & art. It showcases a grassroots attempt to build the local zine, diy, and alternative media scenes and form networks with media creators in […]
Please join us for Zine Fest and free admission beginning at 2 p.m.
Learn the basics of stone lithography from Charles Criner, the Museum’s Artist in Residence. In addition to learning the history of lithography, students will learn how to process a stone through graining the stone, applying an image, and then etching the stone. Students will print on the Museum’s 1830s starwheel lithography press, and then learn […]
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 […]