Got our the BookBeetle for @universityofleeds.bsky.social open day
March 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Got our the BookBeetle for @universityofleeds.bsky.social open day
Back on the BookBeetle today for @universityofleeds.bsky.social Open Day
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Back on the BookBeetle today for @universityofleeds.bsky.social Open Day
Sharing History of the Book! Center for Book Arts in NYC. Audience fascinated by BookBeetle Press.
February 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sharing History of the Book! Center for Book Arts in NYC. Audience fascinated by BookBeetle Press.
BookBeetle is in the house*!!!
*Vitale II Lab for Book History and Digital Humanities
*Vitale II Lab for Book History and Digital Humanities
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
BookBeetle is in the house*!!!
*Vitale II Lab for Book History and Digital Humanities
*Vitale II Lab for Book History and Digital Humanities
I’ve been using our BookBeetle press for the first time at our Open Days for visitors to ink and print a keepsake. Here it is set up in March, and here’s the latest version for June (test print on newspaper).
June 20, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I’ve been using our BookBeetle press for the first time at our Open Days for visitors to ink and print a keepsake. Here it is set up in March, and here’s the latest version for June (test print on newspaper).
BookBeetle in action at our Open Day! (Printing off keepsakes for visitors). #letterpress
April 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
BookBeetle in action at our Open Day! (Printing off keepsakes for visitors). #letterpress
BookBeetle is still the most physically accessible press I've used for letterpress (re:grip, strength, sitting, repetitive motion, safety...) but Provisional is also fairly physically accessible (& lighter! haven't tried sitting use though?) & maybe the least $ option out there for working w/type*
September 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
BookBeetle is still the most physically accessible press I've used for letterpress (re:grip, strength, sitting, repetitive motion, safety...) but Provisional is also fairly physically accessible (& lighter! haven't tried sitting use though?) & maybe the least $ option out there for working w/type*
INTRODUCED AT SKEUOMORPH PRESS! A free 32pp illustrated guide to teaching with the BookBeetle Press. Download from www.bookbeetlepress.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
INTRODUCED AT SKEUOMORPH PRESS! A free 32pp illustrated guide to teaching with the BookBeetle Press. Download from www.bookbeetlepress.com
MULTIFACTOR COMMUNICATION Very successful workshop with the University of Virginia community printing handmade woodtype, handset metal type, and photopolymer on BookBeetle Presses!
February 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM
MULTIFACTOR COMMUNICATION Very successful workshop with the University of Virginia community printing handmade woodtype, handset metal type, and photopolymer on BookBeetle Presses!
It’s amazing to me that I was in @rarebookschool.bsky.social course w/ @josefbeery.bsky.social & @ryancordell.org surely only yesterday. (Auburn hosted Josef & a pre-production BookBeetle eons ago). @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social was there that week too IIRC.
What a joy to witness the seeds & fruit.
What a joy to witness the seeds & fruit.
Folks of all ages make it in to warmly print together @ SLab despite iced-in cars. Thanks @josefbeery.bsky.social for teaching empowering printing to UVA & local community!
+Ty @ryancordell.org for historical newspaper masthead scan: a press can be "the tyrants foe the peoples friend" if used well
+Ty @ryancordell.org for historical newspaper masthead scan: a press can be "the tyrants foe the peoples friend" if used well
MULTIFACTOR COMMUNICATION Very successful workshop with the University of Virginia community printing handmade woodtype, handset metal type, and photopolymer on BookBeetle Presses!
February 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
It’s amazing to me that I was in @rarebookschool.bsky.social course w/ @josefbeery.bsky.social & @ryancordell.org surely only yesterday. (Auburn hosted Josef & a pre-production BookBeetle eons ago). @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social was there that week too IIRC.
What a joy to witness the seeds & fruit.
What a joy to witness the seeds & fruit.
PRINT CULTURE DEEPDIVE. Participants in the BookBeetle Press AlphaBuzzzz Project have been developing educational projects for use with the desktop press. This past weekend they spent a day learning about the support and resources available at UVA Library’s Rare Book School and Special Collections.
February 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
PRINT CULTURE DEEPDIVE. Participants in the BookBeetle Press AlphaBuzzzz Project have been developing educational projects for use with the desktop press. This past weekend they spent a day learning about the support and resources available at UVA Library’s Rare Book School and Special Collections.
So happy with this poster my book history students made for me today as I was teaching them to print on the BookBeetle! Featuring my first (very imperfect) attempts at carved lino head and tailpieces from last night’s experiments.
December 4, 2024 at 9:28 PM
So happy with this poster my book history students made for me today as I was teaching them to print on the BookBeetle! Featuring my first (very imperfect) attempts at carved lino head and tailpieces from last night’s experiments.
As promised. Quite proud of my first go with the BookBeetle. But I’ll have to solve the shortage of numerals (I found out too late and had to use a different typeface 🙄)
April 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
As promised. Quite proud of my first go with the BookBeetle. But I’ll have to solve the shortage of numerals (I found out too late and had to use a different typeface 🙄)
One of my students decided to try making linocuts recently and we used them to test out printing linocuts on our BookBeetle this morning! Looking forward to trying to print some cards together next week.
(Shared with permission. She taught herself, and I’m so impressed)
(Shared with permission. She taught herself, and I’m so impressed)
November 15, 2024 at 7:20 PM
One of my students decided to try making linocuts recently and we used them to test out printing linocuts on our BookBeetle this morning! Looking forward to trying to print some cards together next week.
(Shared with permission. She taught herself, and I’m so impressed)
(Shared with permission. She taught herself, and I’m so impressed)
This Monday—come learn to print your own letterpress Valentine to take home! 2-4pm in our Shannon 308 Common Room; free & open to all (no UVA affiliation needed). cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16214282 Photos from a previous printing event @josefbeery.bsky.social also taught at SLab (zine covers!):
February 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This Monday—come learn to print your own letterpress Valentine to take home! 2-4pm in our Shannon 308 Common Room; free & open to all (no UVA affiliation needed). cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16214282 Photos from a previous printing event @josefbeery.bsky.social also taught at SLab (zine covers!):
Cville folks, tonight 5:30-7:30=our weekly BookMakers gathering! Free+open to all. Mix of old+new attendees, book artists+folks just getting started. Many bring projects to work on, but there's often short demos & equipment you can experiment w/too (wood letterpress type+BookBeetle press tonight!) +
#Cville region folks, missing (or excited to learn more about) book arts? Drop in for BookMakers: every Wednesday 5:30-7:30pm (downtown JMRL Madison Rm) for friendly, free printing, bookbinding, zine, etc. text art community. Open to all: bring your own project, or try out the BookBeetle press! +
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Cville folks, tonight 5:30-7:30=our weekly BookMakers gathering! Free+open to all. Mix of old+new attendees, book artists+folks just getting started. Many bring projects to work on, but there's often short demos & equipment you can experiment w/too (wood letterpress type+BookBeetle press tonight!) +
Details about the BookBeetle here: www.bookbeetlepress.com
BOOKBEETLE BookBeetle Desktop Letterpress
Selling the BookBeetle desktop printing press for letterpress, linoleum cuts, and wedding invitations.
www.bookbeetlepress.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Details about the BookBeetle here: www.bookbeetlepress.com
Part of @uvalibrary.bsky.social's "Zines Now!" year: 2 free+public workshops this fall: come letterpress print colorful zine covers w/@josefbeery.bsky.social cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14968895 & learn w/Jess Walters how to make zines for advocacy/change cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15124934
Zines Now! Workshop: Handmade Zine Covers
Join us in the Scholars' Lab to print colorful hand-made covers for your zines or homemade books on the BookBeetle Press with printmaker Josef Beery. Feel free to come with a zine...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
August 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Part of @uvalibrary.bsky.social's "Zines Now!" year: 2 free+public workshops this fall: come letterpress print colorful zine covers w/@josefbeery.bsky.social cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14968895 & learn w/Jess Walters how to make zines for advocacy/change cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15124934
Thinking of getting a BookBeetle for my School. I seem to remember a photograph somewhere of it mounted on a trolley but can’t now find it. Can you help? @josefbeery@bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thinking of getting a BookBeetle for my School. I seem to remember a photograph somewhere of it mounted on a trolley but can’t now find it. Can you help? @josefbeery@bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
We've folks at all levels of experience—you *don't* need to feel "good at" art to come enjoy making something. We've had folks working on miniature artist books, ceramic(!) book covers; papermaking, marbling, bookbinding; craft & common press letterpress & image printing, zines, lino carving & more!
September 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We've folks at all levels of experience—you *don't* need to feel "good at" art to come enjoy making something. We've had folks working on miniature artist books, ceramic(!) book covers; papermaking, marbling, bookbinding; craft & common press letterpress & image printing, zines, lino carving & more!
@josefbeery.bsky.social It’s here! #BookBeetle
August 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@josefbeery.bsky.social It’s here! #BookBeetle
This lil guy might interest you... www.bookbeetlepress.com/about/
BookBeetle Desktop Letterpress — BOOKBEETLE
BookBeetle Desktop Letterpress for book arts, teaching, and printing wedding invitations from photopolymer plates, movable type, linoleum cut or wood cut.
www.bookbeetlepress.com
April 29, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This lil guy might interest you... www.bookbeetlepress.com/about/
Josef’s Book Beetle was then in development, & Auburn was one of the early places the prototype was demonstrated. His prints have pride of place in my home — if you’ve visited me, you’ve seen his work.
June 13, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Josef’s Book Beetle was then in development, & Auburn was one of the early places the prototype was demonstrated. His prints have pride of place in my home — if you’ve visited me, you’ve seen his work.
Attending and helping plan #BuildingBookLabs25 has been the most incredible experience. The wonderful scholars and artists in attendance, the enlightening workshops, the community shared! 🤍 Thank you @ryancordell.org @skeumorphpress.org and all of the incredible people who made this happen!
May 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Attending and helping plan #BuildingBookLabs25 has been the most incredible experience. The wonderful scholars and artists in attendance, the enlightening workshops, the community shared! 🤍 Thank you @ryancordell.org @skeumorphpress.org and all of the incredible people who made this happen!
Ok, so my department had to spend some money that was going to be clawed back last spring so it very, very kindly purchased a BookBeetle (as well as some supplies for me for my book history course). I used my some of my start-up to get the million other supplies I needed to use the BookBeetle +
May 4, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Ok, so my department had to spend some money that was going to be clawed back last spring so it very, very kindly purchased a BookBeetle (as well as some supplies for me for my book history course). I used my some of my start-up to get the million other supplies I needed to use the BookBeetle +