Hi guys! Samantha here… back at long last! Hopefully you’ll be hearing more from me now that I’m back in the mill! Christopher and I were just discussing the handful of letterpress printers that we’ve had switch to our paper  over the past couple of years. He suggested that I start warning them about the [...]

i started porridge papers back in 1993. it began in my kitchen, moved to the basement then in 1995 i rented a space in the historic district in lincoln, nebraska on 7th and o street and started producing stationery sets for stores up and down the midwest. business went from 2 stores to 30 in [...]

we finished with a project for jason ensminger. he had us make a handmade plantable thank you card for him to send to his clients as well as a custom size business card. i really liked how he had us incorporate the deckled edges on just 2 sides of his business card. with the whole [...]

so we got this wonderful little note today and it got us thinking that we need to make some t-shirts for our various interns that we get. it would be a “camp porridge” shirt! little notes like these make us love our job. thanks suzie for making the switch.

happy earth day!  

  on a cloud rainy day we like to sit around and eat soup, drink tea and find ways not to work so hard!  brizida, the one in the green is our newest intern. after her first “real” print job she and samantha are admiring her handy work. way to go! she did a fantastic [...]

so this past saturday we held a paper sale. handmade paper for $0.25 up to $2.50 a sheet. the sheet sizes were 4×6 up to 19×25. it was crazy, and a lot of fun as well! thank you everybody for coming out. we will definitely be doing it again. we still have several thundered sheets [...]

there is so much going on around the mill as far as plantable paper goes. we have been producing plantable paper for so many companies over the last few months that we forgot what it was like to make paper without seeds. and a lot of which we cant even tell you about just yet! [...]

there are times where we get to print a wonderful design! at first we are a bit skeptical, is this color right, or that design just does not look right?? occasionally we call the designer to make sure that is what they want before we print the rest of the job (which they are thankful [...]

so i totally forgot it was april fool’s day. that made me sad since i could not fool any of my clients. like…yep your 500 sheet order is done. or i feel so bad we had a pipe burst and it flooded the studio and your invitations were a causality. well i will have to [...]