Events
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Workshop & Talk: Sucking on Words & Folding the Page
Join Professor Simon Morris for this two part event: a talk exploring some extreme possibilities for language and a delightful Japanese origami folding book workshop.
An Ice Age Tour of York by York's Hidden History
During the York Ice Trail 2025 weekend, we’re teaming up with our friends at York's Hidden History for An Ice Age Tour of York. Hunt Ice Age creatures on the streets of York, discover Yorkshire’s Ice Age history, and make a frosty souvenir print with Thin Ice Press!
An Ice Old Walk Round York by York's Hidden History
During the York Ice Trail 2025 weekend, we’re teaming up with our friends at York's Hidden History for An Ice Old Walk round York. As we stroll through the city’s hidden history, we’ll encounter ice-skating Vikings, pioneering Earth scientists, and polar confectioners.
Why Making Books Means Reading Differently
Do you prefer to read novels on Kindles or curl up with a paperback? Have you ever discarded a dustjacket to the waste-paper basket, or decided you preferred the original front cover to a new edition? In this talk Georgina Wilson, who teaches and researches English Literature, will think about books as objects, and how their physicality changes how we read their stories.
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?
We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any discipline, and at any career stage (including graduate students), to apply to our 2025 summer school: Print Matters. Supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Print Matters Summer School will offer participants a unique opportunity to advance their research, develop new skills in letterpress printing, and engage with questions of matter, materials or things and their affordances in theory and practice.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Talking Type
Join typefounder and Master Printer Nick Gill for a look at the history, techniques and tools involved in making the fundamental building blocks of letterpress printing: metal type.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Past, Present and Future: the Histories of Printing in York
Join Helen Smith, Director of Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print to learn about Europe's earliest wallpaper, how a book can be a magpie, entrepreneurial widows, printing on ice, type made of Viking wood, and much more! This talk is presented in collaboration with York Explore Library and Archive.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Frost Fair: handmade gifts, prints, art & more!
Join us in the gorgeous surrounds of St Anthony's Hall for a festive fair on Saturday 30th November, featuring print and other craft stalls and seasonal goodness. Save the date!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
"What is REAL?”: Launch of a fine press edition of The Velveteen Rabbit
Join us to celebrate the launch of a new fine press edition of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, printed by Phil Treble of Muttons & Nuts.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Early Modern Paper
Continuing our occasional series of talks on paper, Professor Helen Smith will give a short talk on early modern paper, a substance that was both commonplace and remarkable. She will explore how and where paper was made, a whole range of surprising uses, and how paper became a philosophical as well as a practical resource.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
York Unlocked
Our studio is in a former schoolhouse, nestled in the tranquil garden of St Anthony's Hall and overlooked by the city walls. Visit us during York Unlocked 2024 to tour our historic equipment and try your hand at printing.