Golden String Press takes its name from the lines of the poet William Blake, who announced
   his goals in these words:

                                                    I give you the end of a golden string,
                                                 Only wind it into a ball:
                                          It will lead you in at Heaven's gate,
                                                 Built in Jerusalem's wall.
                                                                                 --William Blake

   The ball of golden string is an ancient image of that magic thread or narrative path
   which can lead a person out of confusion, confinement, and/or unknowing, to freedom.
   It harkens back to the ball of golden string that Daedalus bestowed on Ariadne, who
   then gave it to Theseus to guide that Greek hero safely into and back out of her father
   King Minos's imprisoning Labyrinth.

   Golden String Press takes this image for a name to symbolize our desire to publish books that,
   whatever their subject, seek to braid a golden string for the reader.