Magazine · Concept
Slow down. Look closer. The things worth keeping are made by hand.
GRAIN
Magazine · Concept
the last letterpress in town
For fifty years, one shop has printed the wedding invitations, the funeral cards, and the small important things of a whole county. We spent a week in the ink.
In This Issue
Cover StoryFifty years, one shop, one careful hand.
1
The knife-maker who refuses to ship overnight
2
Ruth Ndiaye has repaired the same church organ for forty years
3
In praise of things that outlive us
4
The bakery that has never once changed its bread
5
Notes from a boatyard in the off-season
6
What a 90-year-old fountain pen still does better
The Craft
Profiles
Dispatches
The Table
Essays
The Archive
A Photo Essay · From the Kessler Press Shop Floor
01
The knife-maker who refuses to ship overnight
3,200 words
02
Ruth Ndiaye has repaired the same church organ for forty years
2,800 words
03
In praise of things that outlive us
2,100 words
04
The bakery that has never once changed its bread
2,400 words
05
Notes from a boatyard in the off-season
1,600 words
06
What a 90-year-old fountain pen still does better
1,200 words
the made world, up close.
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