WORKSHOP GALLERY

Support the next generation of bookbinders! Donate to our scholarship fundraiser at Handbookbinders.org and help students receive 50% off workshop fees. Your contribution makes learning and growth more accessible. Every gift matters—thank you for your support!

We would like to raise $1500 over the course of 2025; if each member gave an average of $15 we would be able to offer 3 partial-tuition scholarships to advanced level classes. Planning is underway to offer exciting study opportunities with talented instructors that bookbinders in the Bay Area would not otherwise have exposure to. 
Please consider giving any amount today!

Friends of Jane H. Aaron will be saddened by the news of her death Thursday, February 12, 2015. She was 92 and had been in poor health for some time. She died in hospital in Palo Alto, CA.

Jane lived in Swarthmore, PA for many years until she moved to California in 1992 to be near her four children. She studied bookbinding with Trudy Eberhardt in Pennsylvania and with Joanne Sonnichsen after her move. She was a member of the Hand Bookbinders of California, the Guild of Book Workers, the Roxburghe Club, and the Book Club of California.
Jane worked with Margaret Johnson for many years conserving the libraries of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and the Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco. Her fine bindings have been shown several times in the annual HBC Members Exhibitions.
She is survived by her children: Jane, Nancy, Harriotte, and Jack, her two granddaughters, and her sister Nancy Packer, in Palo Alto.

The Jane Aaron Scholarship Fund for members of HBC who are taking workshops in bookbinding was formed with the proceeds of the sale of Jane Aaron’s bindery, at her request.