Letterpress workshop

The beginning was quite brief as we have been told the basics of letterpress.
The image on the right just shows the information we have been passed on during that first session which is basically where the letters are arranged and also showing the different thicknesses 'em'.

We then got shown how the to arrange the letters which I though was quite tricky because of the ending part when we had to justify the letters which meant that the whole thing had to be tight so that the letters would not drop out.

Then we had to put it on a tray like the image below shows and use two magnets to block the letters firmly on the tray.

This is the bit where we started printing the words on paper. Just rolling it back and forward.
At first I was kind of getting fed up with getting my letters tight which was not going the way I wanted it but then as they always say the end result is always the best bit which is what made me think again about how fascinating letterpress can be as the sight of it changes from what s seen on the computer. So from all that just happened for the very first session I had for letterpress, I cant wait to see what will happen next and how the outcome will come out.