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One Day Letterpress Workshops in Alexandria
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Workshops
at the Alexandria, Virginia location are offered on the following days, two students each workshop. Please note that additional dates including weekdays are now available by request if you have two people ready to take the workshop together. All materials including paper and envelopes are provided.
The cost of the workshop is $150 per person with a $50 nonrefundable deposit to hold your reservation and the balance of $100 due on the day of the workshop. Please make your check payable to "Railway Station Press" and send to Stuart Bradley at 105 East Glendale Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301.
Sat. July 11, 2009 (reserved)
Fri. July 17, 2009 (reserved)
Sat. July 18, 2009 (reserved)
Sat. August 1, 2009 (reserved)
Sat. August 8, 2009 (two available)
Sat. Sept. 12, 2009 (two available)
Workshops are not currently being offered at the Boyce Railway Station.
Any questions please email me at stuartbradley@comcast.net
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| Click on image above to see a photo essay by Brad Cornelius documenting a letterpress workshop he and his wife Melissa took at Railway Station Press. |
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Railway
Station Press offers one day workshops for beginners in Alexandria who wish to
learn to use the Chandler & Price Pilot tabletop press. The workshops begin at 10 A.M. and last
until 6 P.M. and cover the complete letterpress experience from setting type,
locking up the chase, inking the press, setting the tympan paper and gauge
pins, to printing a limited edition, and finally cleaning the press. The
photopolymer plate process will also be demonstrated if there is interest and
time. Please check out the typeface samples on the letterpress blog page of this website. These are the ones that are available at the Alexandria location.
The
workshop is limited to two students and at the Alexandria, Virginia location
about a mile north of Old Town near the Braddock Road Metro stop on the blue
and yellow lines.
Stuart
Bradley is the instructor and the class fee is $150 per person. With a $50 nonrefundable deposit your place will be reserved for a particular date. Please make the deposit
check payable to Railway Station Press and send to Stuart Bradley, 105 East
Glendale Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301. Stuart can be reached at
703-683-2335 or at stuartbradley@comcast.net to answer any questions you may
have. He has also helped many of his students find presses after they take the workshop.
Since our
first workshop in December of 2004 we have had seventy six workshops with a
total of 139 students. Students have come from as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Montana, Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and England. Letterpress printing is alive and well.
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| A view of the Alexandria print shop with the C&P Pilot press, the drying rack, and one of the two imposing stones. |
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| Another view shows the type cabinet on the right, the paper cabinet under the table, and the press and granite imposing stone. |
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| This refinished oak type cabinet holds 16 fonts of newly cast type. We built a granite imposing stone into the top. |
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| A library card catalog with the hardware removed and wooden drawer bottoms inserted makes a great place to store ornaments, borders, cuts, tubes of ink, and gauge pins. |
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| Spacing material is stored apart from the type and the point size is indicated on the side. |
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| Clarke County and the Shenandoah River at Sunset |
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The Boyce Railway Station is near the Shenandoah River and the Appalachian Trail 60 miles west of Washington D.C., 10 miles east of Winchester, Virginia. Berryville, the Clarke County seat, is 6 miles north. Staunton is 95 miles south. Alexandria is south of Arlington and across the river from Washington, D.C.
Pictures by Stuart Bradley.
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| Clarke County is just east of I-81 and north of I-66 |
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| The Town of Boyce has other historic landmarks |
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