DESIGN AND PRINT YOUR OWN BEAUTIFUL STACK OF WRAPPING PAPER and CARD FOR HOME CRAFTING OR TUTORED BOOKBINDING

Spend an afternoon surrounded by the historic printing presses in Bell House’s Print Room & Bindery and unlock your creativity!

At the end of three hours you will have handprinted a selection of gorgeous designs onto card and paper of all sorts of textures and colours and, as an added bonus, old maps dictionaries, recipes books, sheet music and maybe even some wood veneers!

You will be using a mixture of existing exclusive designs from our own huge collection of wooden and photopolymer blocks and some designs of your own that we will help you dream up. We may even, if time allows, try our collective hands at printing from our huge Victorian wallpaper blocks. All of this will be guided by print-enthusiast Simon who will show you how to use our Albion, Showcard and Adana Presses and help you select your design elements.

You will also learn to add thermo gloss powder and melt it onto the paper using our vintage conveyor belt which we lovingly call our ‘Travelodge toaster’.

To finish up after tea and cake Simon will demonstrate how to use your gorgeous stack of supplies at home to make into gift tags, bookmarks, greetings cards and mini-bunting.

AND, as a special offer, use the 10% discount code 6MARCH if you want to book onto Tania’s amazing new bookbinding classes on either APRIL 19TH or MAY 4TH. She will teach you how to turn your gorgeous papers into a notebook - with plenty left over to make more at home.

This is going to be our smallest class ever - limited to only five places - so that the three hours we all spend together will get each of you lots of my focus and all-important printing time.

Ticketing

Cost to include all materials and a goodie bag of paper offcuts to take home - £60. 

ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED – NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED.

The workshop will be run by one of the Creative Directors of the Print Room & Bindery – Simon Trewin 

Suitable for over 16s only. Unfortunately this event is not suitable to anyone in a wheel chair due to basement access.

Refunds

Please note, we are unfortunately unable to offer refunds for this event.

Reduced ticket prices

We’d like as many people as possible to be able to access and enjoy Bell House. We offer a limited number of income-based concession tickets at half price, which can be booked directly - if you would not be able to attend at the full price due to financial considerations, then this concession option is available.