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ABOUT
ME
  
In my very early 20's I was living in a rural area with no car and
no accessible teaching position. So I took a job I could walk
to in the nearby town at a commercial bindery. They needed someone
to do hand sewing on certain books that couldn't be entirely
bound by machine. In very short order I fell in love. With passion
and determination I decided that THIS was what I wanted to be — a
bookbinder. Over the next 30 years as I taught and raised a
family, I kept this passion alive by apprenticing to a bookbinder
in Los Angeles, and taking courses at the Center for Book Arts
in New York. I started collecting gorgeous papers from around
the world, which complemented my Eastern textile collection.
When I was finally able to pursue my dream in a more definitive
way, I applied to the bookbinding program at the North
Bennet Street School in Boston. After completing their two
year full-time program I worked at Harvard's Widener Library
and the Harcourt Bindery in Boston. In 1998 I started the Seven
Hills Bindery where I apply my bookbinding skills and artistic
sensibility to making unique, useful objects, such as tissue
box covers, jewelry boxes and event albums, many with one-of-a-kind
papers. My work has been in the galleries of the North Bennet
Street School and the Fuller Craft Museum and was recently featured
on ABC/Chronicle.
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