Bookbinding Pattern

Bookbinding Pattern

Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) ;

A bookbinding pattern developed by Ellen Gates Starr, the co-founder of the Hull House. She used arts and crafts education as a tool to lift people out of the stifling despair of poverty. Shortly after she established the Chicago Public School Arts Society in 1894, Starr embarked on a bookbinding apprenticeship in England. When she returned in 1898, she opened the Hull House Bookbindery to expand upon the crafts education programs available.

Starr, Ellen Gates

Ellen Gates Starr papers

University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections Department.

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Lisa Hartman

Ellen Gates Starr Bookbinding Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections Department.

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Bookbindings (binding components)