u/Berrot_Hubrecht

Tomorrow's the 250th anniversary of John Dunlap printing the first copies of the Declaration overnight in his Philadelphia shop. Within days copies were spreading the news of Independence around the Colonies, including being read to General Washington's troops preparing to defend NYC. I spent the last five months recreating that printing — built my own papermaking equipment, hand-made the paper (period flax/hemp fiber), remade and hand-set the type to match the Library of Congress's copy, then printed it on a letterpress. About 1,300 hours total.

Happy to talk process — beating fiber, mould/deckle setup, ink mixing, whatever you want to dig into.