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Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
Oak galls are rich in tannin and other compounds that create an intense black pigment when mixed with iron salts. The ink made from it is indelible and perfect for brush or pen. In this workshop we will take a short walk to a nearby park to gather some galls, then back to the printshop for the inkmaking.
Revive your manual pasta maker by learning how to use it to create small drypoint prints. This technique uses the pressure that normally rolls out the pasta dough to print artwork.
This workshop focuses on the specific techniques and rhythm of platen press operation—feeding paper, achieving even impression, and producing clean, consistent prints.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
Step outside the margins and rethink how type lives on the page. This experimental letterpress workshop invites participants to break from traditional grids and explore expressive, unconventional approaches to setting and printing with movable type.
Step outside the margins and rethink how type lives on the page. This experimental letterpress workshop invites participants to break from traditional grids and explore expressive, unconventional approaches to setting and printing with movable type.
Using finely-beaten, pigmented paper pulp, students will make imagery on freshly pulled sheets of handmade paper. Participants will learn introductory handmade paper techniques such as Western sheet formation, as well as surface design methods of pulp painting, stenciling, and inclusions.
During this workshop students will learn about the history of paste paper. Together we will look at different samples and use different kinds of paste and tools to create decorative paper. This fun class focuses on color blending, textures, and graphic design on paper for artistic use in a variety of book arts or collage-focused art projects.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
In this workshop, students will learn the basics of preparing their own fiber, hand beating, and forming sheets in the traditional nagashizuki method. Students will take home wet sheets to dry at home with instructions.
In this workshop, students will learn the basics of preparing their own fiber, hand beating, and forming sheets in the traditional nagashizuki method. Students will take home wet sheets to dry at home with instructions.
Celebrate the season by learning the fundamentals of hardcover bookbinding on a miniature scale. In this workshop, you'll create one or more handcrafted book ornaments using traditional bookbinding techniques, then personalize them with decorative papers, foil stamping, and ribbon for hanging.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
This workshop focuses on the specific techniques and rhythm of platen press operation—feeding paper, achieving even impression, and producing clean, consistent prints.
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of traditional bookbinding as you fold, sew, and assemble your own handmade book.
This workshop focuses on the specific techniques and rhythm of platen press operation—feeding paper, achieving even impression, and producing clean, consistent prints.
An introductory class on using a hollander beater and creating beautiful paper that can be used for drawing, painting, and even printmaking.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of traditional bookbinding as you fold, sew, and assemble your own handmade book.
North Bay Letterpress Arts is thrilled to be hosting an afternoon of readings with poets Cole Swensen and Kit Robinson. This reading brings together two accomplished and wide-ranging poetic voices for an afternoon of shared work and conversation. Join us!
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of traditional bookbinding as you fold, sew, and assemble your own handmade book.
You are cordially invited to our our annual Summer Open House.
Come tour the shop and pull a print, see the work of our studio printers, and enjoy food, drink (thank you to Pax Wines and Retrograde coffee!), and merriment.
FREE and open to the public.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
North Bay Letterpress Arts is thrilled to host an afternoon of poetry with Robert Hass and Forrest Gander. Together, Hass and Gander bring decades of writing, translation, friendship, and literary engagement to this special reading. Please join us!
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
Join us to be part of the tradition and make your voice heard. Experienced printers will guide you through the printing process and you’ll leave with your own letterpress posters to share with the world.
This intermediate-level class builds on foundational relief and pressure-based printmaking techniques, inviting students to expand both technical control and creative application.
Learn how to sew the Long-Stitch book, a simple and beautiful book form that has been used since medieval times in Germany.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
The printshop will be open for a date night workshop this pre-Valentine’s Day. Join us for light snacks and beverages + printing in Sebastopol, California. Bring your valentine, galentine, friends, or foes!
Visit our booth at the Codex X Book Fair— where craft and concept unite into exemplary works of art.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints.
Join us for an event previewing select Studio Printers’ work that will be on display at Codex X. This is a great chance to see some amazing artist books if you cannot make it to the Book Fair in February.
Get hands-on with the art of letterpress in this beginner-friendly workshop. We’ll explore the basics of printing on a press, from setting up a design to inking and pulling your very first prints. Along the way, you’ll learn about the history of letterpress, the different kinds of presses, and the tools and materials that bring this centuries-old craft to life.
Each participant will create their own small project to print and take home—whether it’s a card, a print, or a simple design—while experiencing the unique textures and tactile beauty that only letterpress can offer. No prior experience required—just bring your creativity and a willingness to get inky!
Celebrate the season by creating your own hand-printed holiday cards! In this festive workshop, you’ll learn the basics of letterpress printing while designing and printing a set of unique greeting cards on traditional presses. Explore handset type, ornaments, and seasonal imagery as you experiment with layout to make cards that are personal, beautiful, and ready to share with friends and family.
No prior experience is needed—just bring your creativity and holiday spirit. You’ll leave with a set of cards you’ve printed yourself, perfect for spreading cheer this season.
You are cordially invited to our our annual Open House & Holiday Sale. Come tour the shop, celebrate the work of our studio printers, and enjoy merriment including:
Fun & Games
Sips & Snacks
Printing Demos
FREE and open to the public
Join poets Danusha Laméris and Emilie Lygren for an evening of poetry and conversation in celebration of the recent release of their books: Lygren's second collection, Once I was a stone and Laméris's third book, Blade by Blade. Bring a journal or paper and a pencil or pen! We may invite the audience to do some writing of their own.
From the book publishers:
Danusha Laméris’s third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in “the heart’s farthest chambers.” These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we’ve forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again.
Emilie Lygen's Once I was a stone is an intimate portrait of gender nonconformity rooted in the context of childhood and the natural world. This timely collection catalogues intersections between identity and place, awareness and grief. With an honest and hopeful tone, Emilie Lygren grapples with the complexities of selfhood, power, and loss, offering insight on our intricate relationship with Earth’s ecosystems.
On the poets:
Danusha Laméris, a poet and essayist, was raised in Northern California born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. Some of her work has been published in The Best American Poetry, The Sun, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and Orion. Laméris served as the 2018–2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California. Laméris's widely shared poem “Small Kindnesses” has been translated into multiple languages, quoted in O Magazine, turned into a short film, and recently read by actress Helena Bonham Carter. She is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program.
Emilie Lygren is a poet and educator whose work is grounded in curiosity and reverence. She’s the author of two books of poetry and dozens of publications focused on nature journaling, outdoor science education, and social-emotional learning. Emilie holds a BA in Geology-Biology from Brown University and an MFA in creative writing from Maharishi International University. Currently, she is a professor of creative writing, a poet in the schools, and at work on an anthology of poems about mental health for youth and teens.
Celebrate the season by creating your own hand-printed holiday cards! In this festive workshop, you’ll learn the basics of letterpress printing while designing and printing a set of unique greeting cards on traditional presses. Explore handset type, ornaments, and seasonal imagery as you experiment with layout to make cards that are personal, beautiful, and ready to share with friends and family.
No prior experience is needed—just bring your creativity and holiday spirit. You’ll leave with a set of cards you’ve printed yourself, perfect for spreading cheer this season.
Drop by the print shop and get festive with us! This special Community Print Day is all about creating your own hand-printed holiday wrapping paper and gift tags. Using our presses, seasonal imagery, and handset type, you’ll have the chance to design and print one-of-a-kind paper goods that will make your gifts extra special.
No experience is necessary—just bring your creativity and holiday cheer. Stay for a little while or the whole session, and leave with beautifully printed wrapping paper and tags made by you!
Your contribution helps keep Community Print Days open and accessible to everyone.
During this class students will create a matrix (plate for printing) out of paper and soft materials, they will then use the matrix to pull prints on the Vandercook. We will use different papers to print with and explore how to create complex matrixes to print an image. These prints can be used later to letterpress a text on to make it a background for a broadside.
Step into the timeless craft of letterpress printing by learning the art of handset type. This hands-on class introduces participants to the fundamentals of traditional typesetting, from understanding type anatomy and layout to composing text by hand with movable metal type. Students will explore spacing, alignment, and lock-up techniques, and gain a working knowledge of the tools, terminology, and processes that defined print for centuries. By the end of the session, each participant will set and print a small project of their own, experiencing the tactile satisfaction of bringing words to life on paper.
No prior experience required—just curiosity, patience, and a love for craft.
This hands-on workshop introduces the essential skills for safe and confident operation of tabletop and floor model platen presses. You’ll explore how to set up a form, adjust packing and impression, register paper, and pull crisp, consistent prints.
Presentation by Lynn Keller
Many contemporary poets who care about the environment find writing about the solace and beauty to be found in nature inadequate to current realities. Awareness of environmental degradation, environmental crises, or environmental injustice is pushing them to produce alternative kinds of environmental writing.
Within this context, you are invited to explore contemporary eco-poetry and environmental justice with author, scholar, printer and professor Lynn Keller in a thought-provoking presentation on November 13 from 5:30-7pm at the Laguna de Santa Rosa (900 Sanford Rd).
During this class students will make a concertina fold, glue 3”x2” cardstock ‘flags’ into the folds, decorate the pages, make covers and finish the book by gluing the covers to the concertina.
The Flag Book structure was invented by Hedi Kyle. It is made out of an accordion fold, small cards glued into the folds, and a cover.
The Flag Book may be described as a portable, expandable file that can display an array of materials in an animated way. Operating with the assistance of the accordion fold, it has the freedom to expand and retract. It can be read page by page or pulled apart for the full effect of an uninterrupted scenario. Standing, the Flag Book also will turn into a circular of star book as the covers are held together at the back.
