No 04 — Spring '26 — 64 pages
Print is a slow conversation.
Paloma is a small risograph press in Lisbon. We publish zines, monographs, and limited-edition print objects with artists and writers we admire — slowly, deliberately, two colours at a time.
Hand-numbered · edition of 250 · risograph in Lisboa
A handbook of soft mornings.
Essays & photographs by Inês Carvalho — 56 pages, two-colour riso.
A book about waking up slowly. Inês spent two winters photographing the small ritual of coffee, light through curtains, and the people who share her kitchen. Hand-bound in Lisbon, printed on Munken Pure cream.
Things we’ve made together.
A handbook of soft mornings
Inês Carvalho
€14 · ed. of 250
Field notes from the rua
Tomás Almeida
€16 · ed. of 200
Quiet objects, vol. ii
Asha Pereira
€18 · ed. of 150
Letters to a printer
Daniel Branco
€12 · ed. of 300
Garden in two colours
Maria Sá
€20 · ed. of 100
On the slowness of things
Beatriz Lima
€14 · ed. of 250
On working slowly with one author at a time.
“We work with one author at a time. Sometimes for two years.”— 14
A small press, in a small rua in Lisboa.
— since 2018We started Paloma in 2018, in a one-room studio in Estrela, with a single Riso MZ770 and an unreasonable amount of cream paper. The first thing we printed was a fold-out about Maria’s grandmother — fifty copies, hand-stitched, given to friends.
There are three of us now — Maria, Tomás, and a printer named Fernando who has opinions about every spread he sees. We publish four titles a year, run quiet workshops in the back room, and answer every letter, eventually.
Come and make something.
Two-colour risograph, an intro.
A four-hour Saturday on basic riso colour theory, registration, and what to do when it goes wrong.
Hand-bound zines, single signature.
Fold, prick, sew. One signature, three afternoons. Take home four copies.
On the editor’s pencil.
A reading-and-editing afternoon for writers and zine-makers. Bring a draft you’re tired of.
Layouts in InDesign for small books.
Grids, baselines, and the small obsessions that make a 64-page zine feel calm.
Subscribe to our letters.
A quiet note from the studio every full moon — new titles, what we’re reading, and the occasional photograph from the press room.