Bookbinding
We are also adept in turning our expertise to the production of contemporary bindings, combining heritage craft skills with modern ideas. In collaboration with clients, we conceive and execute designs to both match personal sensibility and reflect book content, incorporating innovative structural concepts where appropriate.
In our view, fine bindings are three-dimensional, functioning works of art. Whether for a single volume or set, antiquarian or brand-new, your bespoke binding will be a lasting joy to see, handle and treasure.
We are experienced in other specialised book forms such as albums and stationery bindings. In particular, complex formats and springback ledgers.
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Ready for dyeing
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Lacing the vellum strip
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CD compartment
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Hand sewn headbands
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Leather inlays on slipcase
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Video screen 10mm thickness
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Cutting an inner thread to attach the pin
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Making the threaded pin and nut
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Holes for pins
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Tidying up the pins
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Full leather binding with leather inlays
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Selecting the leather
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Chamfering the boards
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Lining the boards
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Paring leather
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Colouring the book edge
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Adding deatails to the book edge
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Cutting out for inlays
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Preparing board for the doublure
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Doublure
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Set of game books
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Working raised bands
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English style cloth bindings
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Edelpappband
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Before tooling
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After tooling
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Waiting to be covered
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Full calf binding
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Notebook with a lock
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Full sprinkled calf binding
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The Pope also needs a binding from us
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Full leather album with inlays
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Stainles steel clasp (not easy to cut)
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Gauffered edge
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Making clasps
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Clasp attached to binding
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Making a brass surround for book cover
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Decorated book edge
Ynyswen, Nantgaredig,
Carmarthen, SA32 7PG
10772518
Registered in England & Wales