Jen Spilly Designs brings you handcrafted functional textile pieces for woman and home. Each piece is meticulously designed and assembled in my studio using hand-painted, hand-dyed and printed natural fabrics, genuine leather and quality hardware. Most of the pieces are one-of-a-kind.

My connection to nature is always reflected in my work through both form and fiber. I’m also greatly inspired by traditional and modern embroidery and quilting, as well as knitting and crochet, thread art and paper crafts.

Though my mother and grandmother were both sewers throughout my childhood, it wasn’t until a required costumes class while I was studying stage management at St. Louis’s Webster University that I finally learned to use a sewing machine. I immediately fell in love with the meditative quality of sewing and continued to build my sewing skills after I changed paths to finally earn my degree in Art History at San Francisco State University. Now, more than 25 years later, after a brief career in museum exhibitions management, I am thrilled to call sewing my career.

A San Francisco native, I now live just north of The City in San Rafael, California with my husband, two teenagers, Milo the dog and Louie the cat.