Christmas in Aurora

I will be open!

11-5:00 pm Open House at Robert LoMascolo’s Print Shop and Bindery (corner of Rt. 90 and Moonshine Road): Tour the “working museum.” FREE hands-on printing activity using an antique press! Pop-up shop featuring many handmade books and cards including several new items!

Student work . . .

Some fine student work from my Binding II class at Wells College! 

Christmas in Aurora

Christmas in Aurora Open House will be December 8th! More details coming soon.

Binding Class. . . .

I have a great group of students in my Binding II class at Wells College this semester! Also pictured is some of their work being displayed in the glass case in the Morgan Hall first floor hallway gallery. We are working on leather binding now!

Letterpress at the Inn

Want to letterpress print my drawing of the Aurora Inn on a greeting card? I will be in the Aurora Inn's brand new Schoolhouse classroom space from 3 to 4 each Thursday through November 1st. Come learn about letterpress and try it for yourself!

Tickets are required and are available from the Inn:

https://inns-of-aurora.ticketleap.com/letterpress-card-printing-in-the-schoolhouse/details

Letterpress Appreciation Day

Today is Letterpress Appreciation Day, and I am pleased to be featured on the Boxcar Press Blog!

"We enjoy hearing from wonderful members of the letterpress community on how the printing tradition has inspired them to their true calling. Aurora, NY-based Rob LoMascolo of The Press of Rob LoMascolo shares with us on why he is smitten with the printing tradition.

Why do I love letterpress? Letterpress appeals to me on many levels, but I think it is the tactility of it that appeals foremost to many of us. You can feel and see the difference. When looking at crisply printed type with just a slight bite into the paper one gets the sense that each and every letter is a physical thing, not a digital recreation of a thing, but every letter is a real actual thing that is very much part of that printed sheet.



My mom likes to tell people that in first grade we kiddos were all asked what we wanted to do when we grew up. Most of my classmates wanted to be athletes, firefighters or follow in their parent’s footsteps, but I wanted to own my own museum!



Yup, visitors always say my shop is like a working museum. Letterpress combines my loves of history, art, design, books, old machines, and above all, it has a realness about it that is lacking from so much of our digital world.

As much as I love letterpress for all those reasons, the reason I do it is simply because I have not found any better way."

(www.boxcarpress.com/blog)

Bookbinding Lecture

I will be bringing my Wells College bookbinding class down to the Aurora Historical Society, and you are welcome to join us!

"Robert LoMascolo will return to the Aurora Historical Society to speak briefly about bookbinding on Thursday September 20th at 7pm. Although few printers traditionally did their own bookbinding, the two crafts have long depended on one another. Robert, who also teaches bookbinding at Wells College, will bring a few examples to show how books were traditionally held together under the cover. Repair and care of old books will also be discussed, and attendees are welcome to bring their own old books that they may have questions about or would just like to share."

The Aurora Historical Society is located at 371 Main Street, Aurora, New York 13026, on the courtyard with Vintage Lighting.

Maps

Exciting to see all the maps I drew published in Scott Shay's new book "In Good Faith"!