Five recipes, in order. Total time: a weekend. Total cost: under $5. By the end you'll have made a brush, an ink, a sheet of paper, a printing plate, and a press — and used them together to pull your first print.
Five minutes, one twig, no excuses. You now have your first tool.
Burn a candle under a plate to gather lampblack — the oldest ink in the world.
Tear up junk mail, blend, pull a sheet between two thrift-store frames.
Press a drawing into a foam meat tray with a pencil. Roll ink. Print.
Two boards and a stack of books. The cheapest press in the world.