Kathy Abbott
Kathy has been a bindery manager at an antiquarian bookseller for over 8 years and has worked in a number of teams as a book conservator. In 2010, she wrote a bookbinding manual which is now used for reference in the field and is currently teaching two bookbinding courses, one for a class of around 10 people and one which consists of one-to-one sessions. She shows an enormous amount of dedication to her craft through the work she carries out in her own repair and restore business and through her teaching. Kathy is keen to get young people involved in the craft to ensure that it continues in the future. She is also the founder of a bookbinding collective called ‘Tomorrow’s Past’ which creates modern conservation bindings for antiquarian books.