St Bride Library Lecture :
Eric Kindel :
Reconstructing Stencil Letters, c. 1700

Date :

6:45 p.m. Tuesday 18 February 2003

Venue :

Bridewell Hall
St Bride Institute, Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EE

Tickets :

To be purchased on the door, £5 or £3 for concessions (with wine!)

About the Lecture :

This illustrated talk reviews of a recently completed research project to reconstruct and test an apparatus for stencilling texts. The reconstruction is based on a manuscript text of c.1700 written by Gilles Filleau de Billettes, one of a group of academicians whose work for the French Royal Academy of Sciences included descriptions of French printing and related trades, and the design of a new alphabet that formed the basis of the romain du roi types. Des Billettes's text on stencilling describes equipment required for work of this kind and its systematic use, and is accompanied by an engraving by Louis Simonneau that depicts much of the equipment described.

About the Lecturer :

Eric Kindel is a designer, writer, and lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading.

More Info :

St Bride Printing Library
Bride Lane, Fleet Street
London EC4Y 8EE
England

W : http://www.stbride.org