Marigold Stationers is a letterpress studio built on century-old iron, a master printer’s hands, and the belief that some things are worth doing slowly.
Our Story
My grandmother opened Marigold Stationers on Bull Street when Savannah still smelled like cotton and salt. For nearly a century, the Vandercook and Chandler & Price presses ran daily — letterpress, engraving, the kind of printing where you can feel every letter with your fingertip.
She closed the shop in 2008. The presses went to storage. In 2024, I bought them back at auction, brought Hattie Jordan out of retirement, and started restoring the original shop. Marigold is coming home.
The Craft
Every piece that leaves this shop is pressed by hand on machines built to outlast everything around them. There are no shortcuts. There is only the impression.
What We Do
Original letterpress prints released in small editions. When they’re gone, they’re gone. Sign up for the newsletter to hear first.
Visit the Shop →For museums, brands, collectors, and anyone with a project worth pressing into paper. We take on a limited number of commissions each year.
Start a Conversation →Full custom suites — invitations, save-the-dates, reply cards, day-of pieces, and thank-you cards. Every letter pressed by hand on century-old iron.
See the Collection →
The Printer
Hattie has been setting type and pulling impressions since before most of us were born. She learned on these same presses, ran them for decades, and came out of retirement to bring them back to life.
There is no replacing what her hands know. Every piece that leaves Marigold carries her craft, her judgment, and her standard: if it isn’t right, it doesn’t ship.
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The Shop
The original Marigold shop is being restored. When the doors reopen, you can walk in, watch the presses run, and feel what letterpress means in person.
Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia
From the Journal
Restoration updates, press runs, and the slow work of bringing a century-old studio back to life.
The story of tracking down our original press at auction and the 800-mile journey back to Savannah.
When the restored Vandercook ran for the first time, Hattie was the one at the handle. This is what happened.
Plaster walls, heart pine floors, and a century of layers. The slow work of making the shop worthy of the presses.