Fourth Friday Open Studios: Book Beetle tabletop printing

Join us for Open Studio!

Stop by to try your hand with a movable type printing press in action, or just observe and enjoy getting to know one very special area of the library. 

Participants will have the chance to ink and pull their own prints and take them home. No printing experience is necessary.

  • Book Beetle is a 21st century recreation of an 18th century common or platen press. This type of press was the penultimate version of the wooden screw press used in "western" printing since the 15th century
    photograph of photopolymer plate inked and a print pulled on tabletop press. Plate depicts a dragon surrounded by books

Families visiting? Bring them along!

Have questions? Contact us: woodson@rice.edu

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Woodson Research Center
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