New hobby

As you may know by now, I like anything that has to do with paper and arts/crafts, and I've always been intruiged by fonts. Somehow I stumbled upon the subject of Adana letterpresses, which were the last to be made (if I understood correctly) and very popular among amateur printers like me. So the best source for things like this is of course Ebay. I was delighted to manage to get a lot of a good working letterpress with loads of type (7 big trays and 15 small ones and lots of extra things) for 69pounds. Just the week before I had seen something similar, but less type, go for a lot more. So of course I'm very pleased with my purchase

In September I'll start as a teacher for the arts & crafts lessons as an afterschool activity. I thought it would be nice to show the children how things were printed in the old days, apart from the fact of course that for myself I want to print things with it. The gentleman I bought it from, who had retired, told me it was a standard thing to learn in school how to set type for a letterpress when he was young. I'm wondering whether that was standard for all of the UK. I don't think in the Netherlands that was the case.

Anyway I'll be gone again for another fortnight or so to the Provence and Loire valley, so temporatily no blips, but I'll bacblip when I'm back.