At Spoon&Sailor, we like to party like it’s 1899. This means that every single item that makes its way out the studio door is 100% handcrafted: all ink colors are custom mixed; each card that you receive is manually cut down to size on a turn of the century guillotine cutter; every one of your printed pieces has been hand-fed into a century old Chandler & Price platen press — often several times at that.

Letterpress printing is a true craft — a slow and methodical process that demands great attention to all the little details. Accordingly, the Spoon&Sailor studio runs like a well oiled machine from Mister Roger’s Neighborhood; we like to take our time and do it right. We pride ourselves in supplying you with well-crafted, high quality whimsy...& work hard to do so every single time.

Elana Joy is the captain of Spoon&Sailor. An award winning artist and designer from the great Northeast, Elana has been romantically involved with both words and letters for several decades and has been running the presses in dresses since 2003. In her less inky time, she is a typography, design and photography professor at several local colleges and has been known to lose her weekends to gardening, canning, baking &/or antiquing. She rides a red bicycle and would very much like a dog.