Grandson of one of the foremost figures in the American book arts tradition, Dard Hunter III has pursued his family's devotion to the history and technique of papermaking by hand. In this seminar, he will recount the investigations of his grandfather and, through demonstration, teach participants how to make their own paper. How To Participate Friday's Evening Lecture is free and open to all. Participants should bring an apron and also a rubber stamp for forming a watermark.
Participation is limited to fifteen persons.
A box lunch is included in the registration fee. Both his grandfather and father were printers in Ohio. Influenced by the work of William Morris and Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Dard Hunter traveled to East Aurora, New York, to work with Morris's American disciples, the Roycrofters. In 1911 he traveled to England, where he deepened his interest in printing and developed a fascination with papermaking. He afterwards devoted himself to the book arts, mastering the crafts of type design, papermaking, and printing.