In the weekend I had the joy of going on a crafternoon trip with the cool women from Kaotic Kraft Kuties and Brown Owls. We went to the Melbourne Print Museum. Which I didn’t even know existed! And I hang out across the road at the Footscray Community Arts Centre quite regularly. Although in my defence, they have pretty, shall we say, limited signage.
So yet one more cool thing to do on Moreland Street, those of you who look down your noses at Footscray are absolutely missing out.
We got to learn about all sorts of different types of printing. And got right into typesetting as well. Some of us got quite excited about learning what some of the lingo we use in relation to modern printing originated.
And the best bit for me, since I’m completely addicted to stamps at the mo, is that you could buy your own little slug made on their Linotype machine for $2!!! Even better you could make it yourself for $5!
So with a machine looking remarkably like one of these
I got one of these
I was gonna take photos but I had a baby on my hip and everyone else was, so check out Pips and Gemmas pics, or even better go check it out for yourself. And if you need any small print jobs done and you want them to look GOOD, I’d go and see this crew. I don’t reckon it would be possible to print something ugly with all the beautiful machines they have.
And you might notice a new banner on the front page. I’ve been planning on having a few of these on rotate for a while, I just haven’t gotten around to it. But things are changing around here, don’t get comfortable.
