Entry No. 41 — the Seattle file — filed under: hands-on

School of Visual Concepts (SVC) Letterpress

Partners in Print is a nonprofit community letterpress shop in Belltown, full of vintage Vandercook presses, lead and wood type, and ornaments. In a hands-on workshop you hand-set type, lock up the form, ink the press, and crank out your own posters, with no experience required. They also run a multi-week foundations course for people who have never printed, plus Friday Night Print Socials. It is ink-on-fingers, lever-pulling analog printing, not a digital simulation. (Spun off from the School of Visual Concepts, which handed its letterpress program to Partners in Print.)

The move: Take the two-hour print workshop and collaborate on a poster or set of cards you hand-pull off a vintage press.

📍 Before you go Public workshops run on scheduled dates; check the calendar and register ahead.

• 📍 South Lake Union, Seattle
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: School of Visual Concepts, Seattle, WA

Hours: Added 2026-06-24 — confirm current hours before you go.

⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.

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last checked: 2026-06-24