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By Marilyn Fish

Local Textilist, Crispina ffrench, is a woman of wide-ranging passions – passions that over time she has woven into a seamless fabric of family, art, education, and social responsibility.

Now aged 58, she clocked many years as a textile recycling entrepreneur before discovering that contentment lay not in fame and fortune, but in merging her personal values with her work.

Crispina was born in Ireland, one of three daughters of John ffrench, an Irish ceramist, and Primm Turner ffrench, an American painter.

Her parents moved the family to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1969, in search of better educational opportunities for their girls.

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John and Primm had already landed jobs at Monument Mountain High School and once here they also produced art at home and became active members of the community. By 1970 they founded the Dolphin Studio, familiar to all who have seen their bold screen-printed calendars around the Berkshires.

Growing up, Crispina enjoyed and embraced