Paper Making/Book Binding/Letterpress Printing at Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh
This Saturday, May 11 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and Sunday May 12, 11 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
$12/child and/or adult
Without paper and ink, the abolitionists who once lived at Rokeby could not have worked with their network of people to assist fugitives from slavery. Nor could they have printed posters to advocate for the end of slavery.
Fast forward about 190 years to Rokeby Museum today. Papermaker Jon Turner (Wild Roots Farm, Bristol, VT), letterpress printer John Vincent (A Revolutionary Press, New Haven, VT) and bookbinder Jane Ploughman (Ploughgirl Press, New Haven, VT.) are offering families and adults the opportunity to get a taste for papermaking and letterpress printing. Paper will be made with a bicycle-powered beater. Printing will focus on table-top presses, moveable type and tools of the 19thcentury hand-printing trade. And participants can make a simple bound pamphlet.
These hands-on opportunities will be going on throughout the day. Drop in anytime, and plan on spending about an hour.
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