Published November 05. 2018 11:00PM
As part of their “Hot Off the Press” exhibit, Bethlehem’s National Museum of Industrial History hosted a printing and papermaking workshop in August at 602 E. Second St. The evening’s “apprentice printers” enjoyed a hands-on experience creating paper from pulp, setting type and printing from a hand-fed, foot-powered press, then binding the pieces together into a small book.
The “Hot Off the Press: Printing and Papermaking” exhibit features printed materials dating back to 1493, antique printing presses and equipment, including a Mergenthaler Linotype machine, and two mosaics from the now-demolished Bethlehem Steel Printery.
Visitors to “Hot Off the Press: Printing and Papermaking” could watch master printers Bob Egolf and Alan Runfeldt operate the various printing presses and machinery and papermaking expert Tom Necker operated the 1933 scale model of a Rice, Barton, and Fales Fourdrinier Paper Making Machine.
The exhibition closed Oct. 31.
press photos by ed courrierFront row from left, “apprentice printers” Liz and Matt Brady, Amy Capwell, NMIH education coordinator Kitsa Behringer, and Joe Weber at a recent NMIH printing and papermaking workshop. The instructors from left in back, are master printer Bob Mueller, papermaking expert Tom Necker, and bookbinding expert Ulla Warchol. Copyright - &Copy; Ed Courrier
