About

PAST.

Rebecca Dolber grew up on the East End of Long Island. After studying sociology and film at Manhattanville College, she drove cross country to California with hopes of becoming famous. After one fun summer, she moved home and started a life in New York City working in television production on Law and Order SVU. It was there she leaned into her love of making things, crafting objects with her hands. Rebecca’s small room in a shared West Village apartment was teeming with found-object wall hangings and knotted necklaces made with the treasures she found on 7th Avenue and in the vintage shops around St. Marks. At her best friend’s insistence, she signed up for a street fair and with that, her future as a business owner and jewelry maker quickly unfurled.

In 2010, Rebecca moved back to Long Island to focus on building her business. At art shows, street fairs, pop-ups and festivals, Rebecca spent the next ten years on the road building a following of loyal and loving customers, all while exploring other interests like art, antiques and interior design. Working part time for South Bay Auctions and Interiors by Allegra didn’t just help pay the bills, but provided insight to how other small businesses were run. 

In 2017, Rebecca opened her first retail space inside another local small business, Silly Lily Fishing Station (SLFS). It was there customers could explore her seaside studio and for the first time, be hands-on in designing the pieces that meant so much to them.

Then came 2020. Newly married, newly mortgaged, and 8-weeks pregnant, Covid shut the world down. With the help of a small business loan, Rebecca doubled down and moved her business to Main Street. With hopes of popping-up in the empty storefront till Covid died down, she’s since made the space into her permanent studio where she manufactures her wholesale jewelry line and hosts workshops, classes, parties and personalized design sessions.

PRESENT.

The Studio at 426 Main Street is the heart of Rebecca’s operation. It’s not only where her jewelry is made and shipped across the world, but where customers can come to explore trays of beads, vintage pieces, and other trinkets. Open for shopping Saturdays 12-6pm and during the week by appointment, the Studio is a catalyst for catharsis—in many ways, the physical embodiment of what Rebecca’s jewelry has always been for people. What started as a hobby 15 years ago, has since evolved into a practice of careful listening. It’s here where Rebecca can hold space for customers to be introspective and help them translate their memories, milestones, and mantras into meaningful pieces of jewelry.

The experience is more than a purchase. It’s an opportunity to connect over the moments that define us. Rebecca believes community is built in small moments like these, by investing in one another with compassion and without judgement.

FUTURE.

To know Rebecca is to know that she believes the personal is the political and you must use your voice no matter the size of your platform.  It’s her desire to incorporate more connection, conversation, community and action into her work. This means partnering with other small businesses who put people over profits. It means being unapologetically visible in an ultra conservative community as a queerly-married lady and mother of two. It means providing opportunities and redistributing wealth in the absence of government reparations. It’s acknowledging that the capitalistic system she benefits from is harming both the earth and its most vulnerable inhabitants. For Rebecca, the work is to tell the truth about the past so we can reconcile it for the future.