Handmade ink from plants and berries? Yes please! I always wonder how my rubber-based ink fairs on the environment while doing letterpress. Not good I’m sure. I use such a tiny amount for each project though. But how about Britt Browne from the PaperMoonProject on her ink made with cranberries. This is how ink was originally made and I love the idea of going back to it.

Here’s her step-by-step process.

Here’s a list of different berries/plants you can use to make certain colors from red onions and beets to tea and turmeric.

Hm… I wonder if this would work for letterpress?

How about plantable letterpress paper from Porridge Papers?

Seems very challenging to letterpress with handmade paper because the paper won’t be perfectly even so your design/type won’t be perfectly even in my mind. But Porridge Press does a beautiful job!

Thick Neck Arts makes paper out of fruit/egg crates ( you know that soft brown layer in between fruit in grocery stores?) and here are her step-by-step instructions.