Common Press

Find someone who looks at you the way is looking at our new ink balls at Common Press, with many thanks to Sara Karpinski of the Franklin Printing Office for sharing her expertise.

We got the keys to start our month-long residency to make paper for our Declaration replicas at the studio (the yellow building behind the magnolia tree) at . We'll be using the rags we collected to make paper pulp and pull sheets of 16 x 20 inch paper to print on over the summer. This location is beautiful and historical... It is the first location of papermaking in the United States (they used the water power of the creek seen here!). Join us on Saturday 3/14 from 2 to 4 p.m. for an open house! Link in the bio.

We had a mould and deckle made for our Declaration of Independence project, and it arrived from WI today. We will use this beautiful tool to make sheets the size of the original Declaration, using pulp from our community rag collection

And the papermaking begins! We are sorting the rags we collected to figure out which are 100% cotton. A fashion design grad student dropped by to tell us how to tell what is cotton!