{"id":1639,"date":"2007-05-08T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/typecasting_at\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:46:23","slug":"typecasting_at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/typecasting_at\/","title":{"rendered":"Typecasting at the Plantin-Moretus Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/matrices.jpg\" alt=\"Brass Matrices\" width=\"479\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of them many incredible places we visited during last week\u2019s whistlestop tour of Holland and Belgium was the extraordinary <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.antwerpen.be\/plantin_moretus\/\">Plantin-Moretus Museum<\/a> in Antwerp. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/plantinmoretus\/\">Flickr it<\/a>.) From the world&#8217;s two oldest printing presses to the incredible array or original type punches and old books, it\u2019s a mother lode of treasures and treats.<\/p>\n<p>We were guided through the museum in the morning by Guy Hutsebaut, who gave us a great talk about the materials and techniques involved in handcasting metal type.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/Gerry_group.jpg\" alt=\"Gerry and the gang\" width=\"479\" height=\"360\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of them many incredible places we visited during last week\u2019s whistlestop tour of Holland and Belgium was the extraordinary Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. (Flickr it.) From the world&#8217;s two oldest printing presses to the incredible array or original type punches and old books, it\u2019s a mother lode of treasures and treats. We were guided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/typecasting_at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Typecasting at the Plantin-Moretus Museum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74547,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/74547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}