Strangely enough, Blue Barnhouse came out of a love of literature and magazine production. Wanting to steer away from the standard mass-produced fare so common to the publishing industry, we joined the bookbinding and letterpress community at the San Francisco Center for the Book and learned the beauty of doing things the old fashioned way. Our handbound magazine, Em Literary, was met with rabid enthusiasm by the literary underground, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Our letterpress studio and stationery store is now located in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. We are very pleased to be here.