
History of Type and Letterpress Printing with Guided Tour and Demonstration
Experience a guided tour and demonstration of letterpress printing and typography.
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level
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Experience a guided tour and demonstration of letterpress printing and typography.
For Coffee With A Codex on July 31, Curator Dot Porter will bring out two fragments of a number of astronomical texts in Middle English, written in England circa 1496.
Learn to mend your tattered textiles by hand, or use skills you already possess but haven’t yet applied to an item needing repair.