Robert Smail'S Printing Works

Get your hands inky at this living museum of a thriving printing firm in the Borders, whose premises were more or less unchanged for over a century.

Try your hand at being a printer’s apprentice to learn the almost forgotten art of letterpress printing and typesetting.

Robert Smail’s Printing Works celebrates a vital part of our industrial heritage and social history by giving you a hands-on demonstration of how things were printed not so long ago.

The machinery is kept in good working order as it is still used today for a variety of commercial print jobs, including some of the National Trust for Scotland’s own literature.

You can explore the Smail's archive at http://www. nts.org. uk /smailsarchive