http://woodtype.org
I had a warm welcome at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin the weekend of September 9, 2017. This is a photo blog of the experience. Relief printing type made of wood enjoys a long history in the annals of letterpress, and though currently made only at enormous expense in small shops both in the USA and abroad, no finer example of the craftsmanship in the trade can be found. Our inkjet and laser printers of today are marvels of technology, but it's a safe bet you won't be able to find them, let alone operate them a number of decades into the future! Not so with wooden type fitted into iron chases. Curated fonts of wooden type that are upwards of 150 years old can be found and are still usable in the newfound limelight of letterpress. Hamilton, in addition to making Wood Type, manufactured all manner of woodcraft and appliances for labs, schools, physician and dental offices, and for a time even for the home. I'll give a brief timeline with more authoritative references alongside the photos. This facility offers a clear value to any endeavor expressing human culture through relief printing. I recommend contributing, re-blogging and if possible, visiting the museum on a regular basis!
What follows is a series of photos looking at some of the other products that Hamilton manufactured.
Mike Moore
The Letterkraft Press
Union, Kentucky.
I had a warm welcome at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin the weekend of September 9, 2017. This is a photo blog of the experience. Relief printing type made of wood enjoys a long history in the annals of letterpress, and though currently made only at enormous expense in small shops both in the USA and abroad, no finer example of the craftsmanship in the trade can be found. Our inkjet and laser printers of today are marvels of technology, but it's a safe bet you won't be able to find them, let alone operate them a number of decades into the future! Not so with wooden type fitted into iron chases. Curated fonts of wooden type that are upwards of 150 years old can be found and are still usable in the newfound limelight of letterpress. Hamilton, in addition to making Wood Type, manufactured all manner of woodcraft and appliances for labs, schools, physician and dental offices, and for a time even for the home. I'll give a brief timeline with more authoritative references alongside the photos. This facility offers a clear value to any endeavor expressing human culture through relief printing. I recommend contributing, re-blogging and if possible, visiting the museum on a regular basis!
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