Spend a day working with traditional wood type and metal type to create prints using letterpress techniques.

You’ll have the opportunity to use our wood type collection to create text and backgrounds on our Albion and galley proofing presses. You’ll then work with our metal type to set your own smaller lines of type and use our Adana presses and equipment.

The aim is to briefly introduce you to a couple of approaches to using letterpress and enable you to think about next steps.

On this one day workshop you will explore the basics of etching metal printing plates such as zinc and aluminium using hard wax grounds and copper sulphate solution.

Etching is an intaglio printmaking process where etched lines or grooves are created on a metal surface which are then inked up and printed from using an etching press. Using copper sulphate to etch is a much safer and less toxic alternative to using traditional nitric acid to etch copper plates.

Join us for a fun printmaking taster session to make a series of prints using the intaglio printing process of drypoint etching.

You will learn how to use drypoint etching tools on plastic and aluminium sheets, oil based inks and our two etching printing presses in the workshop. At the end of the session you will have a series of similar, but increasingly more complex, prints.

Explore printmaking using tetra pak and recycled materials to create beautiful intaglio prints using drypoint and collograph methods.

On this taster session you will experiment with mark making on recycled tetra pak and packaging using a variety of different tools such as dry point needles, craft knives, and roulette wheels.

You will learn how to use our traditional etching presses in the workshop, how to prepare soaked paper and how to transfer your chosen design onto the Tetra Pak.

Spend a day exploring the jigsaw method of linocut to create an edition of multi-colour prints.

Printing a linocut jigsaw style is an easy way to print a design in multiple colours. You cut the lino block into pieces, ink them up separately, then put the lino block back together to print.

On this one day workshop you will learn how to use the tools, materials and techniques to get started in bookbinding. You’ll make books from scratch to take away with you using methods such as pamphlet stitch, concertina books and Japanese stab binding, and you will gain some knowledge to keep making books at home.

Bookbinding is great for creating notebooks, sketchbooks, albums or books which are art objects in themselves.