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Birdwood Press is a letterpress printing studio that specializes in creating invitations, announcements and books for all of life’s important occasions.

I have been printing since 1986 when I met Elaine Peck, a letterpress printer who loved to share her knowledge and expertise. We applied for and received a Folk Arts Master/Apprentice grant from the Colorado Council on the Arts & Humanities in 1987 and completed “Circles of Gold,” an edition of 60.

I acquired my first press, a Pearl treadle press built in 1887, from Bill Jackson, proprietor of the 4 Ducks Press and professor at Wichita State University. For the next seventeen years I worked as a project manager for Vermilion Design in Boulder while taking binding workshops and making artists’ books under the name Zuni Press. I am now printing full time — both for hire and personal work — and have changed the name to Birdwood Press to honor the Colorado mountains I live and work in. If you’re in Gilpin County, please come by the studio for a visit.

Gail Watson