Domestic brands now produce multi-year diaries, replacing imports, as customers use them for parenting, anniversaries, and self-reflection
“To everyone running the marathon of life, I present this diary. … Feel free to use it as a parenting diary, prayer notes, gratitude journal, or exercise log. Whatever it may be, please leave a 10-year record that only you can write. That story will become a book that no one can ever break.”
A 10-year diary with thickness comparable to an encyclopedia. The cover displays the numbers 2026-2035. /Courtesy of Bamui Seomjeong
When ordering a diary at the “Night Bookstore” in Daesin-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, a letter like this is enclosed. The diary’s cover, as thick as an encyclopaedia, bears the numbers 2026–2035. This diary is a “10-year diary” to be used from this year until 2035. Opening the page marked January 24, there are sections listing 10 years from 2026 to 2035. As you fill the diary, you can glance at how you spent the same date last year, the year before, and so on, spanning a decade.
Kim Mi-jeong, 49 years old, the store manager, said, “As a ‘stationery deokhu’ (hardcore fan) who loves collecting notebooks and fountain pens, I always visit bookstores or stationery shops when traveling abroad, which is where I first encountered the 10-year diary.” She added, “When I opened this independent bookstore, I thought many customers would share my love for records and stationery, so I decided to produce the 10-year diary.” The store has been creating and selling 10-year diaries with different designs every year since 2018.
Interior pages of a 10-year diary. One date spans 10 years. /Courtesy of Bamui Seomjeong
A few years ago, multi-year diaries like the “10-year diary” were rarely sold domestically, so many people imported them directly from German stationery brands like “Rhodia” or Japanese brands such as “Midori,” “Hobonichi,” and “NU.” Things have changed recently. Various domestic brands now release diaries that allow recording over multiple years, such as “5-year diaries” and “10-year diaries.” This year, 5-year diaries are particularly popular among those who prefer round numbers, as they can be used until 2030. Comedian Kim Young-chul also sparked interest by introducing the “5-year diary” on his YouTube channel late last year, saying, “This is something I’ve been doing really well in my life.” Those seeking shorter-term records often choose “3-year diaries.”
Ms. Jo, 45 years old, who recently left her 20-year career and is exploring new work, said, “In 10 years, I’ll be in my mid-50s, and I want to record and reflect on how I’ve changed over the decade.” She added, “Though there aren’t many entries yet in the first year, I feel excited and hopeful thinking that in three or five years, I’ll be able to look back at my past self.”
Ms. Lee, 35 years old, a working mother who had a child two years ago, purchased a “10-year diary” to document her growing child’s daily life. She said, “Even without special writing skills, the accumulation of daily life naturally becomes a splendid ‘parenting diary.’” She added, “Reading past entries, I can see not only my child’s growth but also how I’ve grown as a mother each year.”
Mr. Kim, 44 years old, who celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary this year, recently bought a 10-year diary as an anniversary gift. He said, “I gave the diary to my wife as a promise to do our best for the next 10 years.” He added, “When we look back on it during our 20th anniversary, it will hold great meaning.”
Kim Mi-jeong, who has been a long-time diary user before becoming a seller, said, “The charm of the 10-year diary is discovering your own patterns over time.” She explained, “In January and February, I actively use my mornings with many plans and resolutions, while in autumn, I often get sentimental. During busy periods, I sometimes leave the diary blank.” She added, “The 10-year diary offers an experience where the past, present, and future versions of myself continuously converse.”
Why you keep repeating the same fight with your kid and a tool to help you stop
Key points
Parents and kids get stuck repeating the same fights because they can't see patterns when emotionally flooded.
A parenting journal reveals conflict patterns, what triggers struggles, and what works to calm them down.
The journal reveals your blind spots, helps you plan ahead to break the cycle, and processes painful emotions.
After a conflict, wait until calm, then write: What happened? What triggered you both? What helped? What hurt?
It’s January and many of us have made resolutions for 2026. If you have a challenging child, maybe you’ve made resolutions like: “This year I’m not going to yell. I’m going to keep my cool. We’re going to have a more peaceful home.”
Unfortunately, without calm parenting strategies and a plan, you’re probably going to find yourself having the same fights, feeling the same frustrations, and feeling like a bad parent because you keep losing your cool.
Why does this happen? Why do we get stuck in these repetitive, painful cycles? And more importantly, how do we finally break free?
Why Parents Keep Losing Their Cool
Years ago, I attended a talk where the speaker argued that happy couples have fewer than six big fights a year. A colleague next to me leaned over and quietly said, "I think most couples only have one fight.” He paused dramatically to set up his punch line: “They just repeat it over and over."
Family therapists understand that we tend to get swept up in the same bad patterns time and again. It may seem like a new fight, but if we look below the surface, it’s just the same old fight dressed up in different clothes.
In my work with challenging boys and their families, I see patterns of conflict repeated over and over.
Your kid melts down over being told to turn off the screen and do homework. You double down. They dig in harder. You raise your voice. Before you know it, everyone is feeling angry, upset, and bad about each other. You're left wondering how asking to put away the iPad turned into World War III. Again.
The details change, but the sequence is usually the same: you ask, your child resists, you hold firm, your child escalates, and soon everyone is emotionally flooded.
The parenting journal is a positive discipline tool that helps you understand and interrupt these cycles. You're not writing a diary. You're collecting data on what actually happens so you can stop reacting and start planning. The parenting journal (which I detail extensively in Challenging Boys) works in three key ways.
It Reveals Hidden Patterns
While power struggles, explosions, and meltdowns occur in predictable circumstances and play out in very predictable ways, we often can’t see the patterns. This is because when we’re in them, we’re flooded with emotions that disrupt our thinking. Writing about bad events after they are over allows us to see the situation more objectively. The journal entries show:
What circumstances typically trigger our child
What triggers us during challenging moments
What things escalate the conflict
What calms the situation down
It Enables You to Plan
Identifying the patterns enables us to prepare for them. We can:
Proactively manage the situations that trigger our child in order to prevent a meltdown from occurring in the first place.
Do more of the things that our journal shows us help regulate our child, and less of what dysregulates them.
Proactively recognize and manage our own triggers, practicing emotion regulation so we don’t add fuel to the fire.
It Processes Painful Emotions
After a difficult interaction with our child, painful feelings linger, such as frustration, guilt, anger, and helplessness. The journal allows us to process these emotions rather than bury them. Research on expressive writing (notably by James Pennebaker and colleagues) suggests that writing about upsetting experiences can help people process emotions and reduce stress.
Example: Tracy and Ryan
Here’s what this looks like in real life. Tracy, mom of a 14-year-old challenging boy, Ryan, used a parenting journal to get more objectivity on her repeated fights with Ryan over homework.
After writing about a few instances of the homework fight, Tracy was able to see that the meltdowns were triggered by Ryan’s executive functioning problems with working memory (he couldn’t remember his assignments) and organization (he didn’t get them recorded in his notebook), as well as intense anxiety about failing. Ryan’s strategy for dealing with this homework anxiety was to avoid doing it, which felt like defiance to Tracy.
Tracy also recognized her own "buttons" were being pushed. She could now see that Ryan reminded her of her brother. Tracy was terrified of Ryan having the lifelong struggles with work and relationships that her brother had. Her fear that Ryan would turn out like him was causing her to overreact in the present.
From her journal entries, she also discovered what doesn’t work. Her insistence on firm limits was actually intensifying Ryan’s anxiety and resistance. The limits also never led to homework getting done. Instead, they were leading to more undesirable behaviors. Ryan started lying that his homework was finished. He was also sneaking his laptop into his room at night and staying up late playing video games.
Tracy could now see what worked better. When she gave Ryan some time to unwind afterschool before asking him to do homework, she had more success.
Armed with information, Tracy was able to make her plan. Instead of taking a hardline with Ryan, she decided to give him time to unwind after school before suggesting that he start his homework. If he resisted, she was going to remind herself that he was probably anxious (not defiant) and, instead of setting a limit, she was going to offer to help. If she felt herself getting upset, she was going to remind herself that Ryan wasn’t her brother, that he was a 14-year-old boy having school problems. Finally, if a homework fight started up, she was going to drop her demand and let her husband, Bob, do the homework with Ryan later. Her journal entries revealed that Ryan often had an easier time getting work done with his dad.
This plan almost immediately led to less fighting, more homework getting done, and a better relationship between Tracy and Ryan.
How to Start Your Parenting Journal
After a challenging moment, wait until everyone's calm. Then take 5-10 minutes to jot down: What happened? What triggered your kid? What triggered you? What made it worse? What (if anything) helped?
Three entries are all it usually takes. By the third time you write about the homework battle or the morning meltdown, the pattern begins to emerge. That's when everything can start to change.
Your 2026 Resolution
This year, don't resolve to be perfect. Resolve to see clearly. Keep a parenting journal for the next month, because you can't change a pattern you can't see.
References
Davis, J. T. (2025). Challenging boys: A proven plan for keeping your cool and helping your son thrive. Rowman & Littlefield.
Pennebaker, J. W., & Smyth, J. M. (2016). Opening up by writing it down: How expressive writing improves health and eases emotional pain. Third edition. Guilford Press.
Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager in hiding during the Holocaust, documented her experiences in a diary filled with remarkable clarity and emotional intelligence. Despite the constant fear and confinement, her writings reveal an unwavering belief in humanity's moral strength. Her words, surviving her tragic death, continue to inspire with a message of kindness as a powerful force.
Despite her all-too-brief life, Annelies “Anne” Frank remains one of the most enduring voices of the 20th century. A teenager forced into hiding during the Holocaust, Anne became the human face of an unspeakable tragedy through the pages of her diary, written not as a historical document, but as the honest reflections of a young girl trying to make sense of a cruel world.
Anne and her family spent more than two years concealed in the “Secret Annex” in Amsterdam, a space that has since become one of the world’s most visited memorial sites. In confinement, under constant fear of discovery, Anne wrote with remarkable clarity, wit and emotional intelligence. She described herself as a “chatterbox,” often sounding like any other teenager, even as history closed in around her.
Anne never lived to see her 16th birthday. She died in a Nazi concentration camp, one among nearly six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Yet her words survived—carrying with them not hatred or vengeance, but an unwavering belief in the moral strength of humanity.
Today’s quote of the day by Anne Frank, the writer of The Diary of a Young girl:“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
Meaning of the Quote
Written during one of the darkest chapters of human history, this line captures Anne Frank’s extraordinary optimism. At a time when violence, cruelty, and injustice defined daily life, she believed that kindness was not weakness but strength.
Anne’s “weapon” was not force or anger, but compassion—an inner resilience that refused to be destroyed by fear. The quote suggests that while hatred may dominate moments in history, it is empathy, decency, and moral courage that endure over time. For Anne, kindness was an act of quiet resistance.
Decades later, her words continue to resonate, reminding the world that even in the face of overwhelming darkness, a gentle spirit can leave a lasting mark—one stronger than any form of violence.
About Anne Frank and The Diary of a Young Girl
The Holocaust remains one of the darkest chapters in human history, documented through countless books and accounts. Among them, The Diary of a Young Girl stands apart for its honesty and emotional clarity. Written by Anne Frank, a 13-year-old Jewish girl in hiding, the diary offers a deeply personal view of life under Nazi persecution.
Anne began writing her diary on June 12, 1942, after receiving it as a birthday gift. The entries end abruptly on August 1, 1944, shortly before she and her family were arrested. Through her words, Anne records the fear, confinement, and daily struggles of living in hiding in Amsterdam after fleeing Nazi Germany.
What makes Anne’s writing remarkable is her ability to remain observant, thoughtful, and hopeful despite constant danger. She writes with the curiosity of a teenager, slowly growing aware of the hatred and violence surrounding her. Her reflections reveal both the innocence of youth and a striking emotional maturity shaped by war and intolerance.
Anne and her family were eventually captured and deported to concentration camps. She died before her 16th birthday. Her father, Otto Frank, the only family member to survive, later published her diary in 1947.
Today, The Diary of a Young Girl is regarded as one of the most important first-hand accounts of World War II, translated into more than 60 languages and read by millions worldwide. Anne Frank’s voice continues to remind readers of the human cost of hatred—and the enduring strength of hope.
A man is trying to track down the family of a woman from Nottinghamshire whose 1940s notebook was discovered in a shop in Pakistan.
Ateeq Ahmad came across the journal in a toy store in his home city of Rawalpindi about nine years ago.
An inscription inside the leather-bound book says it was owned by Jean Bellamy, who lived on Carnarvon Street in Netherfield during World War Two.
Ateeq, a 38-year-old poet, posted about the notebook on a Nottinghamshire community Facebook page, and said it was his "dream" to find out more about its owner and give it back to her family.
The notebook gives a Nottinghamshire address
The diary includes written messages to Jean from her friends and family.
One message from "Dad", dated 7 February 1944, reads: "The best thing to have up your sleeve is a funny bone."
Other messages inside the book include one from an L Shelton, dated January 1943, which says: "When making friends, renew the old, young ones are silver, old ones are gold."
One page reads: "If you have a friend, treat her as such. But do not tell that friend too much, for if that friend becomes a foe, then round the world your secrets go."
Another note reads: "There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it little behoves any of us to talk about the rest of us".
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Ateeq Ahmad found the book in a toy shop in his home city of Rawalpindi
Ateeq thinks the book could have arrived in Pakistan after being thrown away by mistake, ending up in the toy shop as part of a donation.
He said it was also possible to could have been owned by someone who moved to Pakistan but left it there when they returned home.
"I paid 20 or 30 Pakistani rupees for it because I love old things and I collect them," Ateeq added.
"This diary [is] old, and I'd love to give it back to the owner.
"I was checking my books a few days ago and I found the diary [again].
"I'm amazed how it came [to Pakistan]. I'm curious because it looks beautiful."
The diary's leather-bound cover offers clues about the books origin
If Jean is no longer alive, Ateeq said he would like to reunite the book with any possible children or grandchildren she may have had.
"I think some people would think it's just some papers, but to me it's a gem, and I want to send this gem to the right person," he said.
In a small room up a flight of stairs in a bank building in Cleveland’s Kamm’s Corners neighbourhood, you’ll find the offices of the American Diary Project.
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Kelli Ann Conetsco of Medina enjoys journaling and came to one of the "Junk Journaling" events held by the American Diary Project. She says diary writing helps catalog the events of her life.
In late November, the non-profit hosted its regular “junk journal” class. Four attendees sat at a large desk with scissors and tape, creating collages out of stickers, paper, vintage photos and magazines. The end products are meant to evoke participants’ memories and interests.
Kelli Ann Conetsco of Medina was one of the attendees. She used journaling to document her daughter’s childhood and catalogue the progress of her rosebushes.
"I use it for therapy, I use it to keep record of my life," said Conetsco. "It’s important to have some kind of tactical or something that you can actually touch, pick up, hold, look at, flip through."
Donations from the monthly events help raise funds for the non-profit’s main reason for being — preserving and digitizing historic and contemporary diaries from around the U.S.
A growing collection
Kate Zirkle is the founder and director of the American Diary Project.
"(I've been writing) since I was a little kid writing in diaries," said Zirkle. "And I was wondering what would happen to them when I passed away. And so that got me searching on the internet where are there archives or somewhere that I could donate my diaries and I really wasn't finding anything."
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Kate Zirkle is the founder and director of the American Diary Project. She said she has always had an interest in diaries from a young age. Zirkle sought an outlet for her diaries after she passes and did not find an organization that preserved these writings in the U.S.
Zirkle started out with just a website and a personal collection seeded by her own funds. She later bought diaries from eBay in 2022. The collection has now grown into many shelves of preserved diaries and journals of all shapes and sizes.
"We have over 500 diaries," said Zirkle. "We have a handful from the 1800s, the majority of our collection is from the 1900s, and some from the 2000s as well."
Not bad luck
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A diary from Kim Ailiata dates to her childhood in the 1960s, complete with a warning not to peer inside. Donors can stipulate how and when diaries are accessed — for example, after the writer’s death.
Zirkle placed a box of preserved diaries down on the table and picked up a small white volume with a locking clasp.
"So this is one of my favourite diaries," said Zirkle. "It's from the late 1960s from Kim. And there's a warning in it that says ‘Warning, bad luck, do not open.’ It's just it's so cute."
About 90 volunteers across the country help with transcribing and digitization. Most of the diaries have been donated by private individuals from all time periods, from a firsthand account of life on an Ohio farm in the 1850’s to that of Frank Diorio, an out gay man who lived in the Castro District of San Francisco in the 1970’s.
Here’s an excerpt from his diary, about a new partner named Felix:
Felix and I talked this morning about falling in love at breakfast, tortillas and scrambled eggs. And it occurred to me that not only have I not felt that sensation in a long, long time but that I hope I never feel it again in the way that I've always known it.
American Diary Project
A former partner of Frank Diorio, above, submitted Diorio’s diary to the collection. Diorio was an out gay man living in 1970s San Francisco.
A digital version is on the American Diary Project’s website, along with dozens of others from all 50 states. The wishes of those who donate diaries are honoured, with many diaries being kept unpublished until after their death.
Preserving for the future
Zirkle said it’s important to preserve diaries for future generations.
"You could read about history in textbooks and it's subjective based on the person who wrote the textbook, right?" said Zirkle. "But if you really want to get at the heart of someone's individual experience of what they went through, you're gonna find that in their diary."
Back at the junk journal class, Kellie Ann Conetsco agreed.
"Most of the time it's always autobiography about important people," said Conetsco. "But you know, being an average Jane in an average town is important too because we are the backbone of America."
Folks can view the diaries themselves by making an appointment with the group. They’re also looking to add online diary events later this year — to keep the tradition alive for future generations well beyond Northeast Ohio.
Illinois USA: The Art Institute Archives possesses a trove of unique materials that offer rare insight into the minds and lives of artists and designers.
These personal, hand-assembled volumes serve as inventive diaries. Using a range of media from photographs and sketches to fabric swatches and handwritten notes, each one captures the rhythms of daily life, the evolution of ideas, and the networks of influence that can shape an artist or designer’s practice.
Let’s explore selections from scrapbooks by Otti Berger, Else Regensteiner, and Carter Manny, whose work and legacies are deeply entwined with the history of design and architecture in Chicago. Each demonstrates how the city became a vital hub for modernist innovation, particularly through the influence ofthe Chicago Bauhausand its descendants. Their stories, preserved in part through materials like these in the Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives, allow us to view art history through a more personal lens.
Otti Berger (1898–1944)
The Bauhaus, founded in Weimar in 1919 and later relocated to Dessau and Berlin, was more than a design school; it was a bold experiment in communal living and interdisciplinary practice. Students and masters, including figures like Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and László Moholy-Nagy, lived, worked, and created together in a community where architecture, craft, and industry were seamlessly integrated.
Among the many archival records that survive from the Bauhaus in Germany, few are as personal as this modest scrapbook compiled by textile designer Otti Berger, entitled “Otti’s Bauhausbilderbuch,” meaning “Bauhaus picture book.”
Made at the Dessau campus in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the scrapbook offers a rare, unpolished glimpse into the daily rhythms of Bauhaus life. Its pages are filled with candid photographs, textile scraps, and doodles that capture the creative atmosphere of the school in a new light, highlighting both its legendary output, as well as the interpersonal collaborations that fuelled it. Its unique, accordion-style structure—seen in the video below—speaks to the innovative ethos of the Bauhaus, which pushed students to experiment with ideas of form and function.
A standout student in the weaving workshop, Berger helped redefine textiles as a site of innovation, rather than of domesticity. At a time when few women held authority in design, Berger ran the Bauhaus weaving department in 1931, and when the Bauhaus was forced to close by the Nazi party in 1932, Otti Berger opened her own design studio, with aims to establish herself as an independent designer.
Two pages from Otti’s Bauhausbilderbuch
Though her promising career was cut short, Berger’s legacy lives on in her designs and documents like this scrapbook. After the Bauhaus was shuttered and the political situation in Germany worsened, Berger, who was Jewish, made efforts to emigrate and continue her work abroad. She even attempted to travel to the United States, where her former teacher László Moholy-Nagy had founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago. However, her visa applications were ultimately denied. In 1944, Berger was deported from Yugoslavia to a detention camp, and thereafter to Auschwitz, where she was murdered shortly after arrival. She was 45 years old.
Portrait of Otti Berger from the Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer Papers
– Elio Canale-Parola, Ray Johnson Project Cataloger, Archives, Research Center
Carter Manny (1918–2017)
Due to their unique size or fragility, certain materials in the approximately 250 collections held in the Art Institute of Chicago Archives require extra attention. That’s the case of the papers of the late architect Carter H. Manny, Jr., whose 57 scrapbooks chronicle his rich personal and professional life through photographs, printed matter, and handwritten annotations.
Carter Manny pictured in front of a model of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, 1972
Manny might not share the mainstream acclaim as notable architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but he studied under both architectural masters at Taliesin/Taliesin West and IIT, respectively. Later, while employed with Naess & Murphy (later C.F. Murphy Associates and then Murphy/Jahn), Manny contributed to several significant projects such as O’Hare International Airport, Daley Center, and the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. From 1971 until 1993, Manny served as director of Chicago’s Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, who in 1996 established the Carter Manny Award, which “supports the completion of outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.”
Model of Calder’s Flamingo, including the Chicago Federal Center, 1972
The aforementioned 57 scrapbooks—one of which is seen below—show an architect on the cutting edge of then-current trends.
Both Flamingo and The Four Seasons arrived four years prior to the Chicago City Council unanimously approving an ordinance stipulating that “a percentage of the cost of constructing or renovating municipal buildings be set aside for the commission or purchase of artworks.” Chicago was one of the first (and largest) municipalities to legislate the incorporation of public art into its official building program, a trend that has since extended to over 200 cities across the United States.
—Dave Hofer, access and reference archivist, Archives, Research Center
ELSE REGENSTEINER (1906-2003)
An influential Chicago-based weaver, textile designer, and teacher, Else Regensteiner meticulously documented her life’s work in scrapbooks. These volumes trace her professional career from the 1940s through the 1990s and capture her connections to the Bauhaus tradition, her innovations in weaving, and her influence as an educator and designer. As she once reflected, “Perfect form, perfect proportion, perfect rhythm, perfect colour surrounds us, if we will only pay attention,” a sentiment that encapsulates both her design philosophy and the spirit of her collection.
Regensteiner with loom on sundeck of Hand Woven Originals studio roof, summer 1948 Photograph by Julia McVicker
Born in Munich, Germany, Regensteiner emigrated to Chicago after the Nazi regime uprooted her family. In 1939, she met Marli Ehrman, Bauhaus-trained head of the weaving department at Chicago’s School of Design, who offered her an assistantship in exchange for instruction in textile theory and drafting. This mentorship, and later her studies at Black Mountain College with Josef and Anni Albers, grounded her practice in Bauhaus principles of design, colour theory, and structural experimentation.
Regensteiner’s scrapbooks are layered with weaving samples, instructional handouts, diagrams, patterns, invitations, catalogues, correspondence, inspiration sources from magazines to modernist art, and hand-woven holiday cards. They document her teaching at Jane Addams Hull House, her partnership with Julia McVicker in the reg/wick Hand Woven Originals studio, and her tenure at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she founded the Weaving Department in 1957 and served as its head until retiring in 1971. The scrapbooks also reflect her workshops, lectures, consulting work, and juries.
Thematically organized, the scrapbooks cover topics such as specialty fabrics, warp sequencing techniques, and leather weaving. Pages reveal her innovation of giving the warp (the vertical threads in weaving) visual prominence with “discontinuous weft” techniques, a departure from conventional practice.
Grid diagram of 8 Harness weaving pattern with sample, 1945–58
Inspiration is traced to artists like Piet Mondrian, her Bauhaus teachers, and fellow weavers including Dorothy Liebes and Marianne Strengell. Marginal notes, purchase lists, and supplier references provide valuable insight for textile conservators, revealing mid-century sources of fibres, dyes, and equipment.
Regensteiner’s scrapbooks are more than personal archives; they are teaching tools, design laboratories, and professional records. They preserve her role in shaping modern weaving in the United States, her Bauhaus-inspired pedagogy, and her collaborative spirit. Through their combination of visual material, technical documentation, and personal reflection, they stand as a testament to a lifetime of experimentation, education, and innovation in textile arts.
—Jessica Smith, associate director, Archives, Research Center
Curious to learn more about these scrapbooks? Visit the Franke Reading Room during our regular hours, where changing selections from these collections will be on view through summer 2026, or make an appointment.
The reading room is open, with museum admission, on Mondays, Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays from 1:30 until 5:00. Find more information about accessing archival collections.
