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Making wood type then and now

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Duration: 0:51:21 | Added: 19 Apr 2023
Thomas Gravemaker explores the history of wood type printing as well as his own recent manufacture using digital design and a CNC router.

Wood type has a history as long as printing itself. Thomas Gravemaker, Printer in Residence at the Bodleian Bibliographical Press during March 2023, tells the story of the materials, manufacture and use of wood type since the nineteenth century and brings this up to date with an account of his own recent manufacture using digital design and a CNC router.

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