Hope Mayo: Letterpress Printing Workshop Series for Harvard Affiliates
Date and Time
February 13, 2019
03:00PM - 05:00PM EST
Location
Lamont Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
Upper case, lower case, points and fonts. They have a long and interesting history!
Instructor Hope Mayo operating the printing press.Discover how printing was done from the middle of the 15th century until well into the 19th in a series of workshops open to all Harvard affiliates.
In each 2-hour, hands-on session participants will learn about the history and technology of moveable type and set type themselves. Then, using the iron handpress in the Houghton Library Printing Room, print a keepsake to take away with them.
The workshop series is taught by Hope Mayo, Lecturer for Houghton Library.
Register here: https://library.harvard.edu/events/letterpress-printing-workshop-series
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