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cottage printworks

blessed are the t-shirt makers

About Me

Cottage Printworks is a Screen Printing studio located in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. We are partners with The Simple Way and print a most of our stuff out of the basement of the house here on Potter Street. CPW began with a few simple stencils cut from cereal boxes. These stencils began to find their way onto patches, t-shirts, flower boxes, a few boarded up windows and doors and even our street sign that the city neglected to replace. Slowly we started getting into screen printing and with a generous grant we were able to start a company. Thanks, generous people!The focus of CPW has always been on justice and sustainability, not profit. Many of the shirts printed are recycled t-shirts. We purchase shirts at thrift stores and flip them inside out. The thought is that there is already so much being produced and wasted that it only makes sense to find a use for all this waste. Otherwise, we only use sweatshop free apparel including no sweat apparel, windjammer inc., and american apparel. It is our strong belief that people should be paid a living wage, so we are doing our best to live into that dream, creating a few small, dignified jobs amid an industrial wasteland where we have lost over 200,000 in the past four decades. Instead of sitting around complaining we have decided to start a business that can hopefully contribute to making a better world. Significant portions of our profits are given to The Simple Way to use in the neighborhood and to give away to other great folks around the globe. Please email me with questions, thoughts, exciting projects that you are working on, etc.“Your wealth has rotted and moths have eaten your clothes... The cries of the harvestors have reached the ears of the Lord.” James 5

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fellow screenprinters and stencil enthusiasts, folks interested in micro/alternative/sustainable business practices, prophets, poets, scrappers, scroungers, ragamuffins

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My Blog

one big sorry

so after i shut down production, apparently there was a lot folks who were still sending me messages to the cpw page. i have not logged into the cpw myspace for a couple months now. i am keeping it ...
Posted by cottage printworks on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:21:00 PST

update

since the fire i have not rebuilt my studio. not only did i lose equipment but i lost a space. currently i have no plans of rebuilding. i have a little stock that i have been selling on etsy but i ...
Posted by cottage printworks on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:54:00 PST

Fire

i have gotten so many emails and phone calls the past few days. i feel very supported, thank you. if you haven't heard the news about the fire that destroyed one of the simple way buildings then you...
Posted by cottage printworks on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:41:00 PST

one dollar

yes... and! the theater camp that i have worked with the past few years is running a simple campaign. can you help them raise money to help run their camp? all you have to do is give one dollar or f...
Posted by cottage printworks on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:41:00 PST

quit your job, join the circus

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Posted by cottage printworks on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:59:00 PST

new website

check out the website that we have been working on.www.cottageprintworks.comjustin
Posted by cottage printworks on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:52:00 PST

Manufactured Landscapes

Recently I watched this Canadian documentary called Manufactured Landscapes. It is a chilling look at the effects of industrialization and globalization. The photography in the movie is amazing and ...
Posted by cottage printworks on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:25:00 PST

go army


Posted by cottage printworks on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:53:00 PST

free the slaves

i have come to set the captives free and preach good news to the poor.in the west we would like to think that there are not slaves, today.  but truth be told people are making fat profits by expl...
Posted by cottage printworks on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:09:00 PST

seahorses

 i have a couple original design up on a website named etsy. www.cottageprintworks.etsy.com there are a few seahorse designs that i particularly enjoy. while these are one of a kind prints i coul...
Posted by cottage printworks on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:19:00 PST