Category: Printing
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Letterpress: Art or Craft?
Anyone who has spent much time in the world of visual and material culture will be familiar with the so-called “art vs. craft debate”. Rooted in early modern and modern western European distinctions between (fine) “art”, e.g., Michelangelo’s David, and (not so fine) “craft”, e.g., a Toby jug, this perceived duality continues to echo through […]
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Conference Season
It’s the middle of conference season, at least for me. While the book continues to occupy most of my time, I’ve also been busy with a few papers which I hope might be interesting and indicative of some of the new directions in which my research has been moving. If you’re there anyway, you might […]
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Pathfoot Press Website Live!
After a morning’s website design, the Pathfoot Press internet presence is now live at https://pathfootpress.com/ . Check it out for all the latest on Stirling’s centre for letterpress printing, teaching, and research . . . .
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The Pathfoot Press: Six Months In
When I came to my job interview at Stirling, I was full of big ideas, not all of them very practical. One particularly far-fetched scheme I had was to propose developing a bibliography course at postgraduate level and equipping a print room for use by the students. I laid this out in my job talk, […]
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The Poet in the Print Shop
A couple of years ago I was reading the account book of Robert Freebairn’s print shop in Edinburgh (because what could be more thrilling?) and came across some unusual entries. In amongst the regular business of the shop – “for a new barr-shaft to the press”, “for ten fathom of cords for hanging books”, “for […]
Kelsey Jackson Williams 