We are a two-bench bookbinding workshop. We sew notebooks by hand, build portfolio cases to measure, and repair bindings that have been read until they came apart.
Commission a bindingCoptic-sewn, lies perfectly flat, 160 leaves of 120gsm mould-made paper. Made in batches of forty each season.
Clamshell case in book cloth over grey board, cotton tape ties, sized to the drawings you actually make.
Re-backing, re-sewing and board reattachment for family books and small library collections. Reversible methods only.
A binding is a hinge. Everything else — the cloth, the tooling, the endpapers — is in service of the book opening flat and staying that way for fifty years. — from the workshop notes
Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00–17:00. Write ahead and tell us roughly what you are bringing; the benches are small.
Send dimensions, intended use and a photograph if the book already exists. We reply within three working days.
Two-day introductions to sewn bindings, four people maximum, run twice each spring and autumn.