Scarlet Letterpress & Studio
The Initiative for the Book’s makerspace, the Scarlet Letterpress, welcomes students, faculty, staff and any New Jersey resident to use our collection of type on a Showcard press, a Book Beetle, and a Provisional Press, to play with typewriters, or to try out binding books and making paper. Please get in touch if you’d like a tour.
On Election Day, 120 people crowded into Rutgers's new humanities makerspace, the Scarlet Letterpress, to learn to print on a vintage press, bind their own notebook, make typewriter art, or examine old books for clues to the people who owned them. Students, faculty, and community members each walked away with their own handmade copy of a poem by Evie Shockley, Distinguished Professor of English and a finalist for the National Book Award.
Nancy Sinkoff's Printing Session (April 2024)
Rutgers English Diversity Institute's Tour of the Scarlet Letterpress (June 2024)
Rutgers Future Scholars visit the Letterpress Studio (June 2024)
