Hello and welcome!
My name is Kelly Allen Kujawski and I am the founder of Rarities Books & Bindery. I grew up an avid reader of everything, with a bibliophile mom, and master carpenter dad. After growing up with books and constantly burying my nose in them; going to college; getting married, and starting a family in my early 20s, I knew that I wanted to work with books (just not editing... I didn't want to read for work... ruins the fun). While doom-scrolling on Facebook one day,
I stumbled upon a video of someone binding a book in a medieval style and thought, "Yes. That is what I want to do!"
Many classes and a lot of practice later, and Rarities was born!
Education
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT:
Beginning Box-making
Leather Long-stitch
Advanced Bookbinding
North Bennet Street School, Boston, MA:
Intro to Paper Conservation
Bookbinding 101
Coptic Binding
Preservation Enclosures
Book Repair
North East Document Conservation Center, Online Workshops:
Caring for Paper Based Collections
Disaster and Emergency Planning
Cleaning Books and Shelving
Custom Enclosures
Surface Cleaning Paper
Futurelearn, Online Educational Classes:
The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece
Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree
Yoga Renew: Currently enrolled in their 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training online program
My name is Kelly Allen Kujawski and I am the founder of Rarities Books & Bindery. I grew up an avid reader of everything, with a bibliophile mom, and master carpenter dad. After growing up with books and constantly burying my nose in them; going to college; getting married, and starting a family in my early 20s, I knew that I wanted to work with books (just not editing... I didn't want to read for work... ruins the fun). While doom-scrolling on Facebook one day,
I stumbled upon a video of someone binding a book in a medieval style and thought, "Yes. That is what I want to do!"
Many classes and a lot of practice later, and Rarities was born!
Education
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT:
Beginning Box-making
Leather Long-stitch
Advanced Bookbinding
North Bennet Street School, Boston, MA:
Intro to Paper Conservation
Bookbinding 101
Coptic Binding
Preservation Enclosures
Book Repair
North East Document Conservation Center, Online Workshops:
Caring for Paper Based Collections
Disaster and Emergency Planning
Cleaning Books and Shelving
Custom Enclosures
Surface Cleaning Paper
Futurelearn, Online Educational Classes:
The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece
Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree
Yoga Renew: Currently enrolled in their 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training online program
“People are beginning to recognize that regardless of the existence of e-readers and tablets, there is history and a comfort in the physical book that needs to be preserved.” -Kelly Allen-Kujawski
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