About
Jane Knoll is a bookbinder, book conservator, and artist. Currently teaching classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book and preparing for a master's in book conservation, they study the archaeology of the book, with special interests in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century structures, folk repairs, and personalized bindings, and has two publications on the American scaleboard binding.
After an undergraduate in writing and printmaking from Bennington College and completing the full-time bookbinding program at North Bennet Street School in Boston, Jane was the Driscoll and von Clemm conservation fellow at the Boston Athenæum and worked as Assistant Book Conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.
Upcoming Classes:
10 January—Bookbinding Core 1: Coptic Binding
22 January—Introduction to Bookbinding
8 February—Historical Puzzle Purse Valentines
25 February—Introduction to Bookbinding
25 and 26 April—Bookbinding Core 4: Rounded and Backed Binding
28 May—Introduction to Bookbinding
17 June—Introduction to Bookbinding
20 and 21 June—Bookbinding Core 4: Rounded and Backed Binding
15 July—Introduction to Bookbinding
12 August—Introduction to Bookbinding
15 August—Bookbinding Core 3: Limp Paper Binding
Jane is currently not taking bookbinding or repair commissions but may be available for copyediting work (CMOS, $0.03/word).