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Well, whaddya wanna know?  Here's the plain and simple truth:  My name is Rebekah Tennis and I love design.  I love paper, the way it feels, its weight and texture.  I love extra special touches on little things: homemade tags on gift-wrap, old stamps on an envelope, and twine on nearly everything.

My husband, business partner and all-around solid rock Matt would probably tell you that he likes tools - lots of 'em, finding the perfect way to do something, taking things apart, and precision in everything. 

So you might as well have guessed by now... we are the perfect match for an old letterpress studio. Together we farm rice and have a small but adorable three-year old son, Cameron, and a chubby one year old, Lance.  This keeps us fairly busy, but whenever we have a spare moment, we crank up our 102 year old Chandler and Price platen press and pull some prints. 

There's more, oh yes, there IS more - but that's what this blog is for.  Take a look around, get to know us, our great town of Chico, California and our beautiful presses.


Category Archives: Old Presses

{ holiday open studio hours }

It’s ba-ack! Our fourth annual series of Holiday Open Studio hours! We’ve enjoyed our open studio hours so much over the past few years. It’s rained more often than not, but so many of you came out from the community anyway to see our shop and presses and it is very invigorating to connect directly...

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all star printer’s day.

A couple of weeks ago, Matt and I had the privilege of being able to share in something completely rad – a little letterpress printers get-together at Full Circle Press.  Out of the blue, I got an email from Bev (who works there) asking if we’d be interested in coming to a little shindig they...

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{ holiday open studio hours, part deux }

I know, I know, I know, you all deserve a real blog post here, and not just a filler announcement. O December, where have you gone? A flash before my eyes and… Oh well. Just trust me that more holiday cheer and fun is coming to this blog soon… in the form of Christmas lights...

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{ holiday open studio hours }

It’s ba-ack! Our third annual series of Holiday Open Studio hours! We’ve enjoyed our open studio hours so much last year. It rained down cats and dogs on both Fridays but so many of you came out from the community anyway to see our shop and presses and it was invigorating to connect directly with...

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letterpress: a photo essay

As a last little element of our window display at Magna Carta this week, I thought I’d share with you the black and white photos we hung on the left wall to tell the story of our printing visually. I like to think of it as Letterpress in Seven Photos or Less. Enjoy! Now you...

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{ a shop window. }

Good morning, friends! It’s a fresh week, a fresh month, and a fresh season for us – rice harvest starts today (which means I can say good bye to my precious Matt for the rest of the month)… it will be just us here, folks! After leaving you with a sad little post last weekend...

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