San Francisco Center for the Book

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FEATURED WORKSHOPS

Learn Letterpress Printing with Master Printer Leigh McLellan

Letterpress Printing on a Vandercook Cylinder Press: Core Curriculum
with Leigh McLellan

Mondays, June 3, 10, 17, 24; July 1, 15, 22, 29; August 5/ 6:30 – 9:30pm

This series of workshops is a comprehensive introduction to typesetting and printing on a Vandercook cylinder press with metal type, wood type, and photopolymer plates.

Leigh McLellan has been printing letterpress since 1974. Her work is widely exhibited & collected by many libraries & individuals. She has taught letterpress printing, bookbinding, decorated papers & typography at Mills College, CCAC and at the SF Center for the Book.