Lettre Sauvage
Lettre Sauvage
Spring 2008 Letterpress Workshops
Lettre
Sauvage studio is
located in Santa Paula, CA, about an hour from LA and Santa Barbara. Equipment
includes: Vandercook SP15, Pilot table-top press, Chandler and Price 10x15 old
style platen press (for scoring and die cutting), Challenge 23" paper cutter,
and three cabinets of metal type. Students ages 10 and up with any level of
experience are welcome.
Your creativity
will be enhanced by great music (often live), conversation and the sweet, art-first
atmosphere of the Lettre Sauvage studio under the oaks.
Instructors/hosts:
Fiona Spring, Cameron Leggett, Genevieve Yue, Sophia Kidd. Get
to know us!
phone 805.794.0167
info@lettresauvage.com
Postcard
Sauvage
Date and time: Saturday, February 9, 3:00 to 9:00 PM
Price: $40
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Postcards aren't
only for when you're out of town. Take a mental holiday and surprise friends
with a hand letterpressed postcard in their mailbox.
Each guest will take home a set of 20 letterpress printed postcards. There
is a 6 guest maximum for this postcard party.
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Happy Chinese
New Year
-Calligrahy and Letterpress
Date and time: Saturday, February 23, 10:00 to 3:00 PM
Price: $85
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Geared toward the
lithe mind, ages ten and up.
calligraphy
book of changes
letterpress
A make it yourself book
Learn the basics
of an ancient style of writing, an old fashioned way of printing, and
the basic tenets of china's oldest book of wisdom. Chinese calligraphy
supplies provided.
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Conversation
Coasters
Date and time: Saturday, March 15, 3:00 to 9:00 PM
Price: $40 |
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Remember the fabulous
coasters at that lounge or hotel? The thick paper and kitchy design…you
can outdo them! We'll have scads of thought provoking quotes on hand for
"conversation starter" coasters, or choose from graphics and try your
hand at typography with metal type.
Each guest will leave with 20 letterpress printed, paper drink coasters.
There is a 6 guest maximum for this coaster party.
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Matchbook
Artists' Book
Date and time: Saturday, March 29, 1:00 to 8:00 PM
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This intensive workshop
will cover all aspects of letterpress publishing... composing, printing,
numbering, perforating, cutting, scoring, and binding. The goal is to
produce a complete limited edition artist's book in a single day. Participants
will compose a short portion of text, to be letterpressed into small matchbook
format. The edition will be 125 pieces of approximately 12 pages. Each
participant will receive 20 books. Prior writing experience while acknowledged,
is not required. All text will be derived through the use of chance operations
and surrealist writing techniques. All participants will be given an opportunity
to handset type and run letterpress equipment. If you're ready put a hand
into self publishing, start small, and start now, Join in. Attendance
is limited to 5 participants. Fee includes dinner hour munchies.
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The
gift of hard work…
…for the receiver that is! Give a Lettre Sauvage custom printing gift certificate
with the option of printing stationery with us. |
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You may know someone
who seems like they'd enjoy rolling up their sleeves and running vintage
machines. If it turns out they'd rather not, this gift certificate won't
go to waste- they can just call or email their order and we'll deliver
it to their doorstep. For those quixotic friends: two gifts in one!
Redeemable for 50 Lettre Sauvage note cards personalized with name or
initials on cards and address on envelopes. Learn how to do it with a
private lesson or let us do the work. Lesson must be scheduled 6-8 weeks
in advance. Lettre Sauvage will contact the recipient if requested to
give them a personal welcome. $175
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Lettre
Sauvage
Community Studio
Lettre Sauvage studio offers personalized lessons in the craft of letterpress
printing for individuals and groups of up to four. Use of the press is available
to experienced printers.
Printing Lesson Learn to operate the press. Basics
of typesetting, inking, preparing paper and making the press ready to print
will be covered.
By appointment
Taught by Fiona Spring
$35 per hour per person
$50 per hour for a group of 2-4 working on the same project
Press Rental After
one or two lessons, students may wish to work on a solo project. Lettre Sauvage
staff will be available to help with services like ordering and cutting paper
and advising on printing and design issues. There is also a small
library in the studio of books about books, printing, design and poetry.
Equipment
includes: Vandercook SP15, Pilot table-top press, Chandler and Price 10x15 old
style platen press (for scoring and die cutting), Challenge 23" paper cutter
By appointment
$20 the first hour, $10 each additional hour