April 1st, 2009

There are many items in our house that will be easy or routine for our movers… couches, books, file cabinets: everybody has those.  We do have some unusual items, however.  Not least among these is my printing press and movable type.  There are thousands of individual pieces of lead type in maybe 10 type cases; if these letters fall out of the cases or get mixed up with one another it will take weeks of effort to put right. 

The solution is courtesy of one of the really museum-y (as opposed to children-y) people at Lis’s work: stuff the cases full of fiber batting and wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap.  I hope it works!