Chester Creek Press is located just outside the hamlet of Chestertown in New York State’s Adirondack Park. The main focus of the press is publishing limited editions of contemporary works of prose and poetry. Most of the production work of each edition happens here in our studio – design, illustration, papermaking, letterpress printing from handset metal type, and bookbinding.

We also bring over thirty years of fine woodworking experience to the creation of bookbinding tools and tools for hand papermakers. We use the tools we make and we encorage feedback from our customers so our tools are refined and well tested.

The press offers summer and fall workshops in various aspects of the book arts, including introductory classes in bookbinding, papermaking, boxmaking, letterpress printing, and decorative paste-papers.

There are three studios at Chester Creek: bookbinding, letterpress printing, and boxmaking classes are taught in the print shop and bindery. Our equipment includes two Vandercook proof presses, a C&P Pilot platen press, over fifty cases of metal printing type, various hand bookbinding tools, and lots of handmade and fine art paper. We also expose and hand wash polymer plates in the print shop.

Downstairs from the print shop is the woodworking shop where we make specialized bookbinding tools and hand papermaking equipment as well as tools, jigs and fixtures for our other studios.

Out back is the paper mill where the hollander beater is kept along with vats, tubs, felts and blotters for making paper the traditional way, from cotton and linen rags.

Chester Creek Press is the imprint of Robert Walp
(bio and resume).

PO Box 316
29 Pine Knolls Road
Chestertown, New York 12817

518-338-5238
bob@chestercreekpress.com

BOOKBINDING AND PAPER MAKING TOOLS:

Sewing Frame

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS, NEWS, & EVENTS:

Read a review of "Dusk at St. Mark's" from the University of Arizona School of Art

March 6 & 7, 2010
"Printing Broadsides on the Vandercook Proof Press"
This two day workshop is being held at Bluseed Studios in Saranac Lake, New York. We will combine hand set type and an image in your choice of woodcut, linoleum cut, or polymer plate to print a small edition of a single sheet broadside or broadsheet. Please phone Bluseed Studios at 518-891-3799 or send them an email.

May 18 through June3, 2010
Exhibit of Chester Creek Press books and prints at the North Creek Depot Museum Owens Gallery in North Creek, New York.
Opening reception May 20, 5-7 pm.