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Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery
The Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery was the continuation of Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff's Elephant Bindery at 39 Washington Place in New York City. Left to two of her students, Florence Foote and possibly May Rosina Prat or Minnie Prat, after Nordhoff's death in 1898, the Elephant Bindery was still located at Nordhoff's home in 1899 at 115 East 56th Street in New York City. The Elephant Bindery was later reestablished as the ''Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery'' by the Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff Association, honoring Nordhoff's desire to form a school of industrial arts for women, to include the bindery and Leather crafting, leatherwork among other arts. The bindery school was run principally by bookbinder Florence Foote, being an important studio which opened up the teaching the whole craft of bookbinding to women (as opposed to limited by Trade union, union rules to only folding, sorting, sewing pamphlets or endbands). The Nordhoff Bindery was at some point relocated to the Art Students' League in New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff
Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff (b. ca. 1865 – d. November 2, 1898) was America's first female bookbinder and printmaker. Biography Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff was the daughter of Charles Nordhoff and studied design with May Morris, the daughter of William Morris. She started bookbinding when she heard T. J. Cobden-Sanderson lecture on bookbinding. She was determined to learn how to bind them and eventually learned the trade from Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press bindery in London in 1899, as well as Léon Gruel of the Rue Royale St. Honoré in Paris. She studied at the Doves Press circa 1895 onwards and came back to America to teach others the art. Her New York City studio, the Elephant Bindery, was located at 39 Washington Square West, where she gave lectures on bookbinding and exhibited her own work. When touring binderies in New York where women were employed, many did not have comprehensive education in the trade. So Nordhoff established the first school, Nordhoff Bindery, in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |