about me

I have been making things ever since I can remember. My first commission was the design of a bar mitzvah invitation, when I was 11 (before my own bat mitzvah).

Since then, I have pursued my love of making things by hand, intertwined with Jewish tradition, in a number of ways. I spent two years at the Migdal Oz seminary in Israel, deeply immersed in Talmud, and, my second year, silk screening at the Jerusalem Print Workshop. I studied Visual Art and Humanities (where wrote my BA these on modern philosophical understandings of the physical form of the book) at the University of Chicago and completed a certificate in bookbinding at the North Bennet Street School in Boston where I studied traditional methods of gold tooling and leatherwork, tool making, and metal working, among a wide variety of skills and disciplines. I then studied privately with the renowned bookbinder Mark Cockram in London.

My work intertwines multiple disciplines and I am most excited by projects where I can use traditional materials, texts and methods in new ways that create objects which are meaningful and beautiful.

Whether you have a clear idea in mind that you want executed, or have a a vague concept and want someone to see it through, get in touch here to begin working with me.

Rachel Jackson