Beginning Letterpress - 3 day class

Sun Nov 02 2025 at 10:00 am to 01:00 pm UTC-06:00

Elliot Rayner Studio - Suite 904B | Chicago

Elliott Rayner Studio
Publisher/HostElliott Rayner Studio
Beginning Letterpress - 3 day class
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3 days: Nov 2, 9, & 16. Learn about typesetting and letterpress!
About this Event

In this 3-week class, you’ll learn how to set type and print on our 19th century treadle-powered letterpress. This will be a small class with a max of 3 students, so there will be plenty of personalized instruction time.


*All participants will also receive a free pass for 2 open studio sessions.


Get email updates about future classes and open studio dates


Facilities and Equipment

Stop by for open studio on second and fourth Saturday 1-4pm, too!

On open studio days you can get authorized to use our print and bookbinding equipment for your personal projects. We have letterpress, etching press, and proof press, and a perfect binding machine, spiral binding machine (byo spirals), guillotine, various bookbinding hand tools, kingsley hot foil stamping machine.

Or schedule a time for a private lesson: [email protected]

Elliott Rayner Studio: 329 W 18th St, Suite 904B. Right across the river from Chinatown, near the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line stop

, a short walk from the building.



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Elliot Rayner Studio - Suite 904B, 329 West 18th Street, Chicago, United States

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