{"id":729,"date":"2016-08-08T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:37:58","slug":"barbarian-press-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Barbarian Press Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently took a 3-day workshop at Barbarian Press<\/a> in Mission, BC, where I learned the basics of letterpress printing from some of the masters in the game. I printed a broadsheet with the lyrics from “Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing” by the Magnetic Fields. It was an excellent opportunity to peruse a range of beautiful printed books, sort through tons of old type, and gain valuable tips on letterpress printmaking. Pictures below!<\/p>\n

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Printing on a Vandercook Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing – printed broadsheet featuring lyrics by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Setting type on the press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A printed book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Setting type.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Setting up for the second colour on the Vandercook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently took a 3-day workshop at Barbarian Press in Mission, BC, where I learned the basics of letterpress printing from some of the masters in the game. I printed a broadsheet with the lyrics from “Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing” by the Magnetic Fields. It was an excellent opportunity to peruse a range of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,18,147,5],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-work","tag-barbarian-press","tag-heather-huston","tag-letterpress","tag-printmaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23nro-bL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3329.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}