Welcome
Welcome to BritishLetterpress.co.uk. The site is designed to help those beginning and enjoying letterpress, especially those in the UK. If you’re wanting to get started straight away, have a look at the How-to Guides. If you have a little letterpress knowledge under your belt, you could have a look at the growing list of Letterpress Machines, or even offer your own contribution by contacting me
Updated (13 Jan 08)
A page on the venerable Victoria Platen-based machines, along with a request for more information! Further smaller foundries added to UK type founders, and a new guide to finding and buying second-hand type There’s a new Adana Timeline and a photgraphic guide to taking an Arab Platen Press apart. I’ve uploaded some high-quality PDF files (on the relevant pages).
Behind this site
In creating this site, I want to go some way to bridging the divide between those new starters who seek information on the web; and those practitioners that don’t get too involved with the internet. I’d love to hear what you think of the site.