APHA's Chesapeake Chapter visit

Yesterday we were lucky to have the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association join us for a papermaking workshop.
The American Printing History Association (APHA) is a membership organization that encourages the study of the history of printing and related arts and crafts, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing.
It was especially fun to get to meet Jill Cypher, Ray Nichols, and Bill Roberts of Lead Graffiti in who are are real printing movers and shakers out in Newark, DE.
Hope to see some prints on the paper they made!

Then and Now

Typesetter, 1947
When manual printing presses were the norm in newspaper offices and publishing houses, typesetters placed individual pieces of lead type into wooden frames to create the layout of each page. Typesetters still lay type on manual presses in high end printing shops that produce fine editions of books and broadsides.

photo from the Library of Congress

Typesetters, 2010
Steve Cole, volunteer and fine printer at Pyramid Atlantic.

Moira McCauley, Letterpress Associate at Pyramid Atlantic