A word from Karen
Every book has a second life waiting to be sewn back into it.
I opened this small workshop in a converted carriage house on Buckhannan Avenue nearly two decades ago, after ten years apprenticing under a conservator in Rochester. What started as a side table with a bone folder and a stack of my grandmother's damaged prayer books grew — slowly, deliberately — into the atelier you see today.
We take on a limited number of commissions each month. Every project passes through my hands, from the first assessment to the final gold-tooled title. That's a promise, not a marketing line.
— Karen Dailey, Founder & Head Binder
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