A New Chapter

How many letterpress printers does it take to maintain a web presence? The answer it would appear is n+1 where n is the number of people working at the Pathfoot Press. Despite this, we’re going to try to do better in 2024, inspired by the far more professional web and social media work of our director’s other half at the Crail Press.

Since re-opening our doors after the pandemic, we’ve moved house – our new room, still in the Pathfoot Building, has an actual window! – and have gone from strength to strength with two generations of enthusiastic interns and a series of exciting pamphlets and broadsides to our credit. Collaborations in recent months have included working with the Leighton Library in Dunblane and with Professor Katherine Halsey’s Books and Borrowing project amongst others.

We finished the autumn semester with a series of fantastic projects by students on ARTU9EC (Pen, Print, and Press in the Eighteenth Century) – well done to all of those who took part! Below you see can see some pictures from the final, mad week of student work, which saw a delightfully busy and chatty press room as well as some excellent printing.

Going forward, we’ll be folding, sewing, and binding a poetry pamphlet by our interns and laying the foundations for a major new book project in 2024. Stayed tuned, here, on Twitter, and on Instagram, for the latest. If you’re a Stirling student who’d like to work with us or just an interested private individual, don’t hesitate to drop the director a line at k.j.williams@stir.ac.uk.

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