Bookbinding & Repair
Clamshell enclosure for several decades of love letters. Custom hot stamped dividers by year. Label hot stamped on my suminagashi marbled paper. Cloth and lining paper colors matched to a pillow half of the couple sewed for the other when they first began dating.
Medieval style long stitch bound in two, contrasting modern marbled papers with wooden button closure and a W weaving pattern on the spine
Medieval style long stitch bound in two, contrasting modern marbled papers with wooden button closure and a basket weave on the spine
Medieval style long stitch bound in two, contrasting modern marbled papers with metal button closure and a woven pattern on the spine
Medieval style link stitch bound in two, contrasting modern papers with plastic button closure
Medieval style link stitch bound in two, contrasting modern marbled papers with wooden button closure
Medieval style link stitch bound in two, contrasting modern marbled papers with wooden button closure
Medieval style link stitch bound in modern marbled papers with wooden button closure
Medieval and modern link stitch bindings, a medieval long stitch binding with some weaving experiments, and 2 conservation long stitch bindings
Leatherworking
Three 7.5" x 1" leather rail samples hand sewn using a cross stitch. August 2022. For Costello Studio, Inc.
Hand-dyed leather laced hand rails. 63 ft of lacing. October 2021. Costello Studio, Inc.
One of four matching tops covered in hand dyed shagreen. 32" x 3" each. December 2021. Costello Studio, Inc.
One of a pair of cabinet doors covered in hand dyed parchment. 48" x 52". April 2022. For Costello Studio, Inc.
Handsewn cowhide on brass substrate with 2-needle sewing. 6" x 1" each. March 2022. Costello Studio, Inc.
Hand stitched leather. 2” x 2” x 3”. November 2021. For Costello Studio, Inc.
Design for gilding provided by commissioner. Calfskin, gilding, metal wire 2-needle sewing, metal beads. 22" x 4" unfolded. April 2022.
Fabrication Consulting
"Are we psychic-coral polyps?" by Randi Renate. Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, September 2022 - March 2023, for "Sink or Swim Climate Futures". Color chemist and sculptural fabrication.
"Luna" by Amy Hauft. MassMoCA, North Adams, MA, March 2022 - January 2023, for "700,000 : 1 | TERRA + LUNA + SOL". Leather fabrication for periscope head
"blue is the atmospheric refraction I see you through" by Randi Renate. Adirondack History Museum, Elizabethtown, NY, June 2021 - present (permanent installation). Sculptural fabrication
Printmaking
Linoleum block print and watercolor on cotton rag paper. 4.25" x 3". June 2021.
Collagraph inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine. Ink on cotton rag paper. 6" x 6". October 2020.
Lithograph inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine. Ink on cotton rag paper. 18" x 12". October 2020.
Monoprints inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine. Ink and watercolor pencil on cotton rag paper. 6" x 9" each. October 2020.
Letterpress print on Mohawk superfine. 4" x 6". 2014.
Papermaking & Marbling
samples of suminagashi paper marbling