It focuses on preserving the arts of letterpress printing, punch cutting, and bookbinding through the creation of handmade books as well as the education of both students and interns.
Ferrari and Carr started the foundry together in a 19th-century textile mill building in Ashuelot, New Hampshire, which doubled as both their home and studio.
[2][3] The two met when Carr advertised for poets who were looking for a platform to publish their writings, and taught them how to letterpress print and hand-bind books.
Carr was a creator of both original hand-cut and digital typefaces for the foundry; at the time he was one of two people in the United States using punch-cutting to create metal type.
[4] Carr studied hand-carving steel faces in France under the remaining punch cutters: Nelly Gable and Christian Paput; he earned a master's of typographic punchcutting from the Imprimerie nationale in Paris.