Sabina U. Nies

Sabina U. Nies is a Fine Design Bookbinder and a Fiber Artist. She loves

combining colors, shapes and materials, and being playful with fabrics,

fibers and paper.

Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, with a family lineage of tailors, her first

career was as a professionally trained architectural drafter. Here she

developed her spacial thinking, precision, and creativity. After moving to

the US, she grew her painting and sewing skills, and became a founding

member of the “Lafayette Gallery”, California. Sabina expanded her skill

set to fine leather book binding and box making. She graduated from the

American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Colorado, eventfully

teaching classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book, at several

schools, and at her private studio. She now entertains her own bindery

"SUN Book Arts" in Ashland, Oregon.

Sabina's varied skills allow her to create joy and beauty freely. While her

book bindings and boxes are made using traditional techniques and tools,

her diverse background empowers more experimental work. In addition to

book bindings, she creates wall hangings, table runners, sculptures and

lamp shades. Sabina's works are unique, skillfully handcrafted treasures to

outlast our fast flying times.

Her work can be found at private and public collections in America, Japan

and Europe, including:

The Chicago Public Library, IL (Best Binding Award)

The Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts, IL

The San Francisco Center for the Book, CA

The Public Library in San Francisco, CA

The Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA

The Eddie Rhodes Gallery, San Pablo, CA

The Public Library, San Ramon, CA

The Society of Bookbinders, Bath, UK

The Mezzanine Style Gallery, Forbes, Australia

The Gleeson Library, San Francisco, CA

The Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan

The Bibliotheque Carnegie, Rheims, France

The Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL

The Gallery DeForest, Ashland, OR

The Gallery ‘Made in Pescadero’, Pescadero, CA