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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social

I'm excited to get to pay forward some of my intense practice time into teaching others, something I'd started to do more of when the program closed. I'm obviously biased, but so many folks at our packed Festival of the Book public print demo loved it, hadn't known shop existed, planned to come back

aug 29, 2025, 10:34 pm • 6 0

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social

Local folks, for more info & alerts when we open to the public & start holding events and workshops: scroll to bottom of vabookarts.org to sign up for the listserv. Hoping to show you how fun letterpress printing posters w/a Vandercook press is!

aug 29, 2025, 10:34 pm • 6 1 • view
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social

I wish I lived close by! I'd love to learn printing!

aug 29, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social

There's a place in Scarborough (Toronto) that teaches it.

aug 30, 2025, 12:08 am • 2 0 • view
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social

Oh, that's cool - still a little far for me though. Have you ever taken a course in it? I've taken one bookbinding course but that's it.

aug 30, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social

No I haven't. Wanted to take one of their enclosures courses but missed it and no energy since. bigriverbindery.com

aug 30, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social

Oh, he's great. He is a friend of a conservator friend of mine. He moved to Canada from the US and has done some online workshops including one on enclosures. I signed up for it and let the archives staff watch it and make enclosures. I didn't have time to do them all myself, but he knows his stuff.

aug 30, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social

I took my bookbinding course here in London. And I took a box making course in Toronto once with a conservator from Archives of Ontario. I'd love to take that course again.

aug 30, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view