FESTIVAL BINDINGS EXHIBITION 2026
“Festival Bindings was an exciting exhibition that ran concurrently with the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Book Fair from 10th – 29th August 2026. It featured new and recent work by Fellows and Licentiates of Designer Bookbinders and most of the bindings are still available for sale.“
THE DBUK BOOKBINDING COMPETITION 2027
“The DBUK Bookbinding Competition is an biennial event for UK-based bookbinders (excluding Fellows of Designer Bookbinders) to showcase their technical and artistic skills by binding a set book and/or their own “open choice” books. It encourages both traditional fine binding and more experimental approaches, with various prizes awarded for craftsmanship, artistic innovation, and student work. The competition, established in 1955, includes opportunities for public exhibition and feedback from experienced binders. The winners will be announced in November 2027.”
ABOUT
Designer Bookbinders is one of the foremost societies devoted to the craft of Contemporary bookbinding. Founded more than fifty years ago, our Society is a registered charity and has helped to establish the reputation of British bookbinding worldwide by means of events, education, exhibitions and publications.
Our membership includes some of the most highly regarded creators in the fields of fine bookbinding, book arts and artists’ books, each with a passion for presenting the bound text as a unique art object. Inspiration is the book in all its aspects – text, structure, illustration, print and paper – and the completed bindings are as diverse as the individuals who create them.
Become A Member
Designer Bookbinders Associate membership is open to subscribers worldwide. We welcome new members from all backgrounds – binders, conservators, collectors, librarians, teachers, people from other crafts, and book lovers in general. Learn more about becoming a member of Designer Bookbinders.
World Leaders In Our Craft
Designer Bookbinders Fellows are elected on submission of work, and are considered to have achieved the highest standards in both design and technique. Licentiates are elected on submission of work which is deemed to display a potential in design and technique likely to commend them as candidates for election to Fellowship within five years. The society is constantly seeking new talent, and promising bookbinders are encouraged to apply first for Licentiateship and then for Fellowship.
Learn Bookbinding Excellence From Craft Masters
Whether you’re a bookbinding beginner or an advanced artist, our regular masterclasses and workshops can help you to take the next steps in improving your craft. If you are based in the UK, when you are ready you could consider applying for Licentiateship.
* DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS/SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS JOINT WORKSHOPS *
Due to a cancellation, one space has become available on a joint workshop being held by Designer Bookbinders and the Society of Bookbinders in November. Fellow Hannah Brown (@hannah_brown_bookbinding) will be hosting a weekend workshop in her Somerset studio on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th November teaching, "Miniature Case Bindings Made With Weighted Brass Boards and a False Round Spine".
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Miniature books are small, fully functional books, typically defined as being no more than 7.5 cm in any dimension. Issues that arise when working in miniature largely derive from their tiny scale. Miniature books are difficult to make because of; the precision required to handle tiny components; the challenge of binding pages that are too small for standard tools; paper thickness issues that prevent flipping while staying closed; and the difficulty of cutting and aligning minuscule pieces without them moving or fraying.
One other issue is that the bindings can feel insignificantly light which is why swapping conventional laminated boards for pieces of brass sheet can add a satisfying weight to these small books. This weekend workshop will guide you through creating a full leather miniature case binding, constructed to include brass boards and a false round spine. Participants will learn how to construct a leather-bound case, into which sections will be cased in.
This workshop is suitable for binders with some experience and dexterity as we are working on a small scale book structure.
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For more details, and if you wish to book, please visit the Designer Bookbinders workshop at the following link:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/shop/workshop/miniature-case-bindings-made-with-weighted-brass-boards-and-a-false-round-spine/
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* THE DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS UK BOOKBINDING COMPETITION 2027 *
The DB UK Bookbinding Competition was established in 1955 “to encourage students, craftsmen and apprentices of bookbinding to produce originally designed and well bound books and to give them the opportunity to exhibit their technical and artistic skills” but we really want to encourage anyone who loves making books to enter. The only criteria to entry are that you are resident in the UK when the book was bound and that you are not a Fellow of DB.
There are fewer than 30 copies of the set book still available, so head to our website to secure yourself a copy if you wish to enter. All entrants must bind the Set Book and may also enter up to three Open Choice books. The form of the book can be quite loose – design bindings, cloth bindings, paper bindings, artists’ books and book objects are all admissible. We have expanded the prizes to include paper, non-leather, artistic innovation, student and newcomer, as well as prizes for the more traditional fine binding techniques.
The set book for `27 is "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens with illustrations by Sarah Croomer. Introduced by Simon Callow. Published by The Folio Society @foliosociety
"A Christmas Carol is the quintessential festive tale, at once a ghost story, a moral fable and a celebration of the redemptive power of kindness. On a frosty Christmas Eve, cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts who guide him through shadows of his past, glimpses of a joy-filled present he has long ignored and a chilling vision of what will come if he fails to change his ways. Through satire and sentiment, Dickens depicts the harsh realities of Victorian London and the possibilities of human redemption."
Provisional timeline:
Hand-in deadline: Oct `27
Prize-giving: Nov `27
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(Image credit: Illustrations © Sarah Coomer 2025 from The Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
WEBSITE LINK:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/db-uk-bookbinding-competition/
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| The Designer Bookbinders Newsletter 215 Autumn 2026 |
We hope that most, if not all, members have now received their physical copy of our autumn newsletter through the letterbox?!
This newsletter is packed with updates on how some of our Licentiates are progressing, a review of The Festival Binding exhibition at the National Library of Edinburgh, and a report about a course run by one of our Fellows, Hannah Brown, who taught a large group of students how to create a rounded and backed stub binding earlier in the summer.
There is a call to entry for the dbUK Bookbinding Competition, the set book for 2027 is `A Christmas Carol` by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by Sarah Coomer. It is introduced by Simon Callow and published by The Folio Society. Have you ordered your copy yet? There are a limited number left for sale on our website so you had better be quick if you want to enter...
If you wish to become a member of Designer Bookbinders you will receive four of these newsletters each year (two digital, and two printed) plus a copy of our annual publication, The New Bookbinder. Please see the Designer Bookbinders website for more or PM us for more details.
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* THE BOOKER PRIZE BINDERIES FOR 2026 *
The shortlisted books have now been paired with six Fellows from our society who are undertaking the bindings of them this year! The Fellows have a short window of time in which to create a unique fine binding that will be gifted to the authors at the Awards ceremony on Monday 9th November.
On the run up to this date we thought we`d share some images of the binderies that this will be happening in along with a bit of information about the binders themselves. The six Fellows this year are: Sue Doggett, Kate Holland, Nicky Oliver, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer: and Rachel Ward-Sale. Each year the participating Fellows are encouraged to submit some preferences of which they might like to work on if these titles make it through to the final round, but no one can be sure what they might end up with - how exciting!
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We continue with Nicky Oliver today...
"Nicky has over 20 years of experience working as a bookbinder and design binder. She completed studies in Art and Design which led her to studies in Bookbinding at the London College of Printing. She worked at several trade binderies in London before freelancing and establishing Black Fox Bindery in 2009, and became a Fellow of DB in 2016.
Nicky has worked extensively using decorative leather dyeing techniques on various objects including books, furniture and circus trapeze boots. She has lectured worldwide on topics in this area of specialised skill and knowledge.”
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About Nicky`s bindery...
"I have been based at Black Fox Bindery for almost 20 years. The studio is in an old, rundown former Turkish Delight factory in NE London, which is also home to 14 other creatives working in a range of disciplines. We are a motley bunch who support each other and occasionally collaborate.
The studio has south-facing windows, which provide plenty of natural light - particularly useful for the leather dyeing I do. When I am not at my bench designing and binding, the studio becomes a classroom where I run courses and workshops for students wanting to learn and explore the craft of bookbinding.”
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@blackfoxbindery
* THE BOOKER PRIZE BINDERIES FOR 2026 *
The shortlisted books have now been paired with six Fellows from our society who are undertaking the bindings of them this year! The Fellows have a short window of time in which to create a unique fine binding that will be gifted to the authors at the Awards ceremony on Monday 9th November.
On the run up to this date we thought we`d share some images of the binderies that this will be happening in along with a bit of information about the binders themselves. The six Fellows this year are: Sue Doggett, Kate Holland, Nicky Oliver, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer: and Rachel Ward-Sale. Each year the participating Fellows are encouraged to submit some preferences of which they might like to work on if these titles make it through to the final round, but no one can be sure what they might end up with - how exciting!
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We continue with Sue Doggett today...
"Sue creates hand-made books and bindings. Her creative interests include surface design, women’s history, sewing as drawing, memory, music, myth and the history of magic. Her books are primarily collage-based using text, found images, drawing, print and digital media and her bindings are made using traditional bookbinding techniques combined with messy, fluid mediums and non-traditional materials.
Sue has been commissioning editor of ‘The New Bookbinder’, the international publication of DB, since 2019.”
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About Sue`s bindery...
"I don`t have a dedicated studio space, wherever I lay my tools, that`s my bench. For me it`s more about what I have around me which supports the creative and practical periods of making a book. Sewing machine, bookshelves and objects for inspiration and boxes of stuff including materials and tools - same as everyone I guess. The only difference is that the tools of my trade secreted all over the house. I can work anywhere as long as I can focus. As you can see from the first image - I wasn`t prepared to start the physically on the Booker yesterday. Today-ta da! I have cleared a space (at least for now, and for this photo).”
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* THE BOOKER PRIZE BINDERIES FOR 2026 *
The shortlisted books have now been paired with six Fellows from our society who are undertaking the bindings of them this year! The Fellows have a short window of time in which to create a unique fine binding that will be gifted to the authors at the Awards ceremony on Monday 9th November.
On the run up to this date we thought we`d share some images of the binderies that this will be happening in along with a bit of information about the binders themselves. The six Fellows this year are: Sue Doggett, Kate Holland, Nicky Oliver, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer: and Rachel Ward-Sale. Each year the participating Fellows are encouraged to submit some preferences of which they might like to work on if these titles make it through to the final round, but no one can be sure what they might end up with - how exciting!
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We continue with Lori Sauer today...
"Lori received a degree in Fine Art in the USA followed by an MA in English Literature. After moving to the UK in 1980 she worked in publishing and as a mature student trained with Sally Lou Smith and David Sellars at the City Lit., London, from 1988 – 1991. In 2000 became a Fellow of DB and served as its President from 2015 –19. She teaches widely across the UK and abroad and runs open studio classes in Wiltshire. In 2011 she founded BINDING re:DEFINED, an international programme of workshops focused on the teaching of alternative book structures.”
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About Lori`s bindery...
"My studio was built onto the side of my house in 2018. I designed the space to accommodate work benches, plan chests, and large equipment, much of it sourced from unwanted items that the Bodleian conservation department sold when it moved from its edge of Oxford location back to the Weston Library. I hold classes here and it’s large and roomy, providing generous workstations for 8 people. I reserve one end of the room for myself but while doing something like the Booker binding, I spread over every surface. The large windows overlook surrounding countryside - it’s bliss.”
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* THE BOOKER PRIZE BINDERIES FOR 2026 *
The shortlisted books have now been paired with six Fellows from our society who are undertaking the bindings of them this year! The Fellows have a short window of time in which to create a unique fine binding that will be gifted to the authors at the Awards ceremony on Monday 9th November.
On the run up to this date we thought we`d share some images of the binderies that this will be happening in along with a bit of information about the binders themselves. The six Fellows this year are: Sue Doggett, Kate Holland, Nicky Oliver, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer: and Rachel Ward-Sale. Each year the participating Fellows are encouraged to submit some preferences of which they might like to work on if these titles make it through to the final round, but no one can be sure what they might end up with - how exciting!
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We continue with Kate Holland today...
"Kate specialises in contemporary fine bindings to commission or for exhibition. She uses traditional materials and techniques to produce a unique, modern binding that reflects the text, illustrations and typeface of the book. Seeking more control over the complete book, she has also branched out into overseeing all aspects of book production from design and layout, typesetting and printing to binding and boxes and has recently published several limited editions in collaboration with clients and other artists.”
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About Kate`s bindery...
"My workshop is a converted cowshed in the middle of the Wiltshire countryside and I share the space with studio dogs, Scout and Juno. It’s looking super tidy here right now as I’ve just had students in learning to bind their first full leather bindings. The family home is just across the car park which is a blessing and a curse. It means I’m very close to home but it also means I can never truly shut the door and leave my work behind. Most of the time though I feel immensely at peace in this space especially when I am in the zone creating a binding: my work doesn’t feel like work.”
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@katehollandbook
* THE BOOKER PRIZE BINDERIES FOR 2026 *
The shortlisted books have now been paired with six Fellows from our society who are undertaking the bindings of them this year! The Fellows have a short window of time in which to create a unique fine binding that will be gifted to the authors at the Awards ceremony on Monday 9th November.
On the run up to this date we thought we`d share some images of the binderies that this will be happening in along with a bit of information about the binders themselves. The six Fellows this year are: Sue Doggett, Kate Holland, Nicky Oliver, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer: and Rachel Ward-Sale. Each year the participating Fellows are encouraged to submit some preferences of which they might like to work on if these titles make it through to the final round, but no one can be sure what they might end up with - how exciting!
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We continue with Rachel Ward-Sale today...
"Rachel studied Art, Design and Bookbinding at The University of Brighton. Since leaving college, she has worked as a self-employed bookbinder co-founding Bookbinders of Lewes in 1992.
Although a large proportion of her current work involves the repair and rebinding of old books, her main interest remains centred around the creation of designed fine bindings.
Texture, both natural and manufactured, has been a recurring influence on her work. Recently she has been concentrating on this element of design, impressing found objects into leather creating unpredictable and tactile results.”
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About Rachel`s bindery...
"My workshop is in a converted brewery in the centre of Lewes which is home to a lively mix of studios and workshops. I have all the heavy machinery in the workshop but I also have a work room at home in a spare bedroom where I can do my creative work without disruptions.”
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@rachelward_sale
* THE BOOKER PRIZE BINDERIES FOR 2026 *
The shortlisted books have now been paired with six Fellows from our society who are undertaking the bindings of them this year! The Fellows have a short window of time in which to create a unique fine binding that will be gifted to the authors at the Awards ceremony on Monday 9th November.
On the run up to this date we thought we`d share some images of the binderies that this will be happening in along with a bit of information about the binders themselves. The six Fellows this year are: Sue Doggett, Kate Holland, Nicky Oliver, Dominic Riley, Lori Sauer: and Rachel Ward-Sale. Each year the participating Fellows are encouraged to submit some preferences of which they might like to work on if these titles make it through to the final round, but no one can be sure what they might end up with - how exciting!
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We are starting with Dominic Riley today...
"Dominic trained at the London College of Printing (1988-90), and spends his time restoring antiquarian books, creating design bindings for exhibitions and to commission, teaching and lecturing. He has made about eighty design bindings to date and won over twenty prizes for his bindings, including first prize – the Paul Getty Award — in Designer Bookbinders’ International Competition in 2013. He spends his summer teaching at the San Francisco Center for the Book. He was elected Fellow of DB in 2009 and was previously President of the SoB.”
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About Dominic`s bindery...
"The studio is in the back garden, and was built by Lancashire Sheds. We levelled the ground and laid the gravel, they did the rest. It is the maximum size allowed without planning permission, and has a vaulted ceiling. It has a central work bench, a window bench and a large island bench for planning and lunch. It has lots of shelving, with a cloth and leather store and two flat files. We can take up to six students. It’s a lovely place to work as it is surrounded by mature trees and bushes.”
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* THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST AND BINDER PAIRINGS FOR 2026! *
Yesterday the 2026 shortlist for the Booker Prize, the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction, was announced. We are excited to be able to announce which binder has been paired with which shortlisted novel this year as follows:
Sue Doggett: "May We Feed the King" by Rebecca Perry
Kate Holland: "The Disappearers" by Marlon James
Nicky Oliver: "The End of Everything" by M.John Harrison
Dominic Riley: "John of John" by Douglas Stuart
Lori Sauer: "The Things We Never Say" by Elizabeth Strout
Rachel Ward-Sale: "Black Bag" by Luke Kennard
"The shortlist of six books has been selected by the 2026 judging panel, chaired by celebrated classicist, writer and broadcaster Mary Beard. Beard is joined by award-winning poet, writer and educator Raymond Antrobus; musician, writer and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker; journalist, editor and critic Rebecca Liu; and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood.
Spanning a range of genres – from dystopian fiction to contemporary realism, from campus satire to historical fiction – the shortlisted books explore what it means to be human in an ever-changing world and the communities and events that shape us. Both intimate and epic, personal and political, they provide meditations on familial bonds, identity, shame, love, loneliness, survival and the ultimate unknowability of others. They are moving, pacey, funny, violent, intriguing, horrifying and hopeful."
Over the next six days we will be sharing images of where the six bindings will be being created this year: from paring leather on litho stones through to gold tooling in laying presses, we`ll be sure to keep you updated on how our six Fellows are getting on every step of the way, and what is inspiring them from the novels they have been paired with!
Image © Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation
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* THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 *
The Booker Prize is a prestigious £50,000 literary award recognising the best long-form work of fiction written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. Next Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the six shortlisted books for this year will be announced.
Each year, every Booker Prize shortlisted author receives a unique, hand-bound fine binding of their nominated novel created by Fellows from Designer Bookbinders. This year we are pleased to announce the six binders are: Sue Doggett; Kate Holland; Nicky Oliver; Dominic Riley; Lori Sauer and Rachel Ward-Sale.
We are excited to see which books they will all be paired with, and of course where their creative brains will take them to create this year`s wonderful array of Booker Prize bindings.
Stay tuned to find out more, including where our binders will be working on their bindings, how they undertake the research required to come up with a design, the process they take to physically bind their books, plus how they choose what materials to use. All our Fellows have a unique style of binding and we can guarantee that no two books will be alike!
The bindings will be presented to the shortlisted authors at the winner ceremony on November 9th, 2026.
Photographed here are the six bindings from 2025, made by (left to right) Sue Doggett, Hannah Brown, Tom McEwan, Angela James, Stuart Brockman and Glenn Bartley.
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* JOINT WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE SPACE *
One space has become available on the sold out "Creating and Using Your Own Bookcloth" workshop that will be taking place from 17-18 Oct 2026.
This is part of the new Joint DB/SoB series which offer a range of topics suitable for different levels of experience and interest and take place over a weekend in venues around the country. Many are in the tutor’s own studio and all tutors are established, experienced teachers. Once again we have managed to keep the fees for this year’s programme at the same level as last year: £185 for members of either Society and £205 for non-members and hope you agree they represent excellent value.
Ruth Brown (@ruthbrown_bookbinding) will teaching this workshop at The Scrapstore in Hull. The weekend will include a combination of demonstrations and practical work. Using her binding of ‘The Secret Garden’ as a design source and her background working with textiles, Ruth will explain how she came up with the concept for the cover and then interpreted it onto fabric.
Students will experiment with screen printing, dyeing and layering a variety of mark making techniques with everyday tools and equipment to create visual texture and patterns on fabric. Ruth will demonstrate how to print on fabric with a cheap, home, inkjet printer and how to back fabric to make book cloth.
This workshop is suitable for all levels and you do not need any artistic skills to do this workshop. If you wish to book the last place, please visit the Designer Bookbinders website here:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/shop/workshop/creating-and-using-your-own-bookcloth/
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| The Designer Bookbinders Newsletter 215 Autumn 2026 |
The heatwaves are over and we are starting to remember what being rained on feels like, it must therefore be the start of autumn and time for another Designer Bookbinders newsletter!
We are pleased to report that the Autumn Newsletter will soon be landing on the doormats of all our members, one of two printed versions members receive each year (the other two being digital).
Stay tuned to hear more about what you will find within this information-packed read, which includes updates on how some of our Licentiates are progressing, a review of The Festival Binding exhibition at the National Library of Edinburgh, and a report about a course run by one of our Fellows, Hannah Brown, who taught a large group of students how to create a rounded and backed stub binding earlier in the summer.
If you wish to become a member of Designer Bookbinders you will receive four of these newsletters each year (two digital, and two printed) plus a copy of our annual publication, The New Bookbinder. Please see the Designer Bookbinders website for more or PM us for more details.
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* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to continue with a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only ONE DAY left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Flora Ginn, Peter Jones, Gillian Stewart, Annette Friedrich and Matt Stokl. (GS photograph by Chris McNulty, AF photograph by Shannon Tofts, all other photographed by the binders).
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
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Flora Ginn, Fellow
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Officina Bodoni, Montagnolo,1925
N.F.S.
Edges gilt on the deckle. Double silk headbands of 33 different colours. Light brown goatskin flyleaves tooled in black. Covered in mid-brown Harmatan goatskin with multi-coloured goatskin onlays. Tooled and lettered in gold leaf and palladium leaf.
The design was based on the text structure of the book which has forty four sonnets, each of forty four verses. The vibrant colours reflect the many flowers Robert Browning picked and gave to her during their courtship and the growing love for her husband.
Peter Jones, Fellow
COUNTRY MATTERS by C
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to continue with a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only four days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Angela James, Mark Cockram, Lori Sauer, Kate Rochetser and Tom McEwan. Photographs all by Chris McNulty, apart from images of Kate Rochester`s book which were taken by herself.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
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Angela James, Fellow
103 NOT OUT by Brian Webb
The Fleece Press, 2022
Price: £1,200
A slightly larger than miniature binding. Sewn on linen tapes. Flyleaves designed and printed by binder. Full black goatskin with onlays of hand-dyed calf and white goatskin. Lettered in gold on spine. Doublures of dyed orange goatskin.
Container to look like an envelope, covered in grey Holland linen with lettering label like a postage stamp. Lined with orange suede. Numerous examples of David Gentleman’s 103 stamps designed for Royal Mail.
Mark Cockram, Fellow (@markbookartist)
FETISH DIPTYCH by Mark Cockram
Studio 5 Book Arts, 2026
Price: £600
Hinged rembroitage boards wi
* WALK AROUND THE FESTIVAL BINDINGS EXHIBITION WITH US! *
The "Festival Bindings" exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with an increasing number sold already. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair.
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to continue with a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only five days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Glenn Malkin, Lori Sauer, Kate Holland, Ruta Prusinskaite and Miranda Kemp. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
Glenn Malkin, Fellow (@malkinglenn)
THE WINTER`S TALE by William Shakespeare
Limited Editions club, New York, 1940
Price: £1,950
Bound in goatskin, lightly airbrushed and with raised slits on the front and back boards, with crimson silk in each slit. Gold-tooled frame on each board. Title tooled in gold on spine. Red leather doublures. Lokta flyleaves. Hand-sewn silk headbands. Top edge polished and sprinkled with red ink and gold leaf. Housed in a wooden box, lined with suede. Tooled leather panel on the lid.
Lori Sauer, Fellow (@lorisauer_beechingstoke)
AN ACROBATIC ALPHABET Illustrated by Barbara Crow
The Whittington Press, 1986
Price: £2,160
3-piece binding with double concertina spine; paste paper covers by binder decorated
The "Festival Bindings" exhibition continues at the National Library of Scotland until Saturday!
If you are in Edinburgh we`d love to see you. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with an increasing number sold already. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair.
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
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* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to continue with a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only six days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Angela James, Mark Cockram, Midori Kunikata-Cockram and Amy Kitcherside. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
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Angela James, Fellow
IN PRAISE OF JOHN BASKERVILLE by F.E. Pardoe
The Fleece Press, 1994
Price : £ 1,080
Miniature binding.
Sections guarded with black paper. Sewn on narrow linen tapes, dyed black, with black linen thread. Printed flyleaves with leather joints. Spine left exposed. Silk headbands worked. Double boards : the first edged with orange calf and the upper boards covered with white goatskin, printed, with onlays of blocked or cut-out Baskerville letters spelling out his name across both boards. Constructed so that the boards meet at the back when fully opened. Black calf doublures.
Matchbox style container covered with black goatskin, edged with orange calf and lined with orange suede. Large B blocked on the top.
Tom McEwa
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to continue with a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only six days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Angela James, Mark Cockram, Midori Kunikata-Cockram and Amy Kitcherside. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
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Angela James, Fellow
THE ART OF BINDING BOOKS by Angela James
Fleece Press, 1991
Price: £1,080
Miniature binding. Printed flyleaves and endpapers. Leather joints. Sewn in linen tapes. Silk headbands worked. Covered in calf, airbrushed purple. Back-pared onlays of various calf pieces, either printed, tooled or stencilled, using remnants of previous Angela James bindings. Purple calf doublures. Box with drop-on lid. Base covered with black goatskin and lined with orange suede. Lid covered with red goatskin. Black lettering label blocked in white.
Mark Cockram, Fellow (@markbookartist)
365.0 by Mark Cockram
Mark Cockram, Studio 5 Book Arts, 2026
Price: £600
Palimpsest parchment hinged diptych. Hand-pierced rembroitage boards with 20m
* "FESTIVAL BINDINGS" *
Books, Glorious Books!!
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
The National Library of Scotland is the country`s premier reference archive and one of the largest research libraries in the United Kingdom. Housing a massive legal deposit collection of over 30 million physical pieces—including rare documents like the Gutenberg Bible and letters by Charles Darwin—it serves as the epicentre for preserving Scottish knowledge, history, and culture.
We are thrilled to be exhibiting at such a wonderful venue. There are only nine days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to continue with a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only seven days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Hannah Brown, Mark Cockram, Eri Funazaki and Ali Halley. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
Hannah Brown, Fellow (@hannah_brown_bookbinding)
THE SONGS AND SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by William Shakespeare
Duckworth and Co., London circa 1915
Price: £4,500
Full leather stub binding with laced on boards and edge-to-edge leather doublures. Top edge hand-painted to compliment decorations in the book. Covered in leather with leather onlays and embroidery using coloured and metallic threads. Title embroidered down spine. Housed in a cherry wood box.
This book is a renowned illustrated anthology featuring twelve tipped-in colour plates by Charles Robinson. The design of the binding is inspired by one of the detailed watercolour plates. “On a day – alack the day! – Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wa
* "FESTIVAL BINDINGS" *
Books, Glorious Books!!
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
The National Library of Scotland is the country`s premier reference archive and one of the largest research libraries in the United Kingdom. Housing a massive legal deposit collection of over 30 million physical pieces—including rare documents like the Gutenberg Bible and letters by Charles Darwin—it serves as the epicentre for preserving Scottish knowledge, history, and culture.
We are thrilled to be exhibiting at such a wonderful venue. There are only nine days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to start a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only nine days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Stuart Brockman, Hannah Brown, Jo Bird, Sue Doggett and Mark Cockram. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
Mark Cockram, Fellow (@markbookartist)
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde
Charles Carrington, Paris, 1910
Price: £960
Full hand-dyed leather binding. Free hand-tooling in foil on front and back boards and spine. Hand-printed endpapers and doublures with leather joints.
The surface of the binding is abraded to ‘age’ the surface which has been torn and distressed in places, or left twisted and brooding in others, all to create a ‘canvas’. The original artist’s painting becomes lost in a patchwork of colours and low relief sculpture over the image of Dorian Gray who never aged although his picture did. Each immoral act leaving the picture eaten away; a twisted ungodly creature. The foxing of the pages intentionally kept, emphasising the mot
* "FESTIVAL BINDINGS" *
Books, Glorious Books!!
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
The National Library of Scotland is the country`s premier reference archive and one of the largest research libraries in the United Kingdom. Housing a massive legal deposit collection of over 30 million physical pieces—including rare documents like the Gutenberg Bible and letters by Charles Darwin—it serves as the epicentre for preserving Scottish knowledge, history, and culture.
We are thrilled to be exhibiting at such a wonderful venue. There are only nine days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to start a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only nine days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Ted Bennett, Jo Bird, James Brockman and Rachel Ward-Sale. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
Ted Bennett, Fellow (@t.b.bennett)
THE ABSTRACT GARDEN by Philip Gross
The Old Stile Press, 2006
Price: £3,300
All edges gilt. Covered in full toned vellum. Leather onlays tooled in gold, radiating lines using acrylic ink. Dots tooled in gold. Drop-back box lined with green velvet.
The design depicts a circle of flowers radiating from the centre of the book. Each flower head is tooled from a single letter, together spelling ABSTRACT GARDEN.
Jo Bird, Fellow (@jobirdbooks)
LAST POEMS by A.E Housman
Grant Richards, London, 1922
Price: £1,560
Hand-dyed paper boards. Leather spine. Bradel binding. Recessed inlays of hand-dyed calf skin.
James Brockman, Fellow
BRITTEN’S ALDEBURGH by John Craig
The Whittington Press, 1997
Price: £4,200
Traditionally boun
* FESTIVAL BINDINGS SPOTLIGHT *
We are over a week into our exhibition, "Festival Bindings" at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 32 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
We are pleased to start a series of spotlight posts displaying some of the wonderful bindings available to view and purchase at the exhibition. There are only nine days left to visit this exhibition, so if you are in Edinburgh you mustn`t miss out!
Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-6, Fri/Sat 10-5, Sun Closed
Today we have work by Jane Adams, Glenn Bartley, Richard Beadsmoore and Jenn Belfield. Photographs by Chris McNulty.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website. If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
@natlibscot
#designerbookbinders #workofabookbinder #contemporarybookbinding #bookbindingexhibition #designbinding
Jane Adams, Licentiate (@poplarjane)
FOUR QUARTETS by T.S.Eliot
The Folio Society, 1968
Price: £720
Case binding in goatskin with double gate-fold hinged boards. Lettered on spine.
Each panel lettered with the title of one of the four Quartets with decorations by the binder representing the four elements – Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Outer boards have a single recessed circle referencing the ‘still point of the turning world‘.
Glenn Bartley, Fellow
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS by John Bunyan
Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press 1928
Price: £4,800
Two volumes bound in matching but dissimilar full calf vellum, decorated with acrylic inks beneath and on the surface of the vellum with gold-tooling and lettering. Rough gilt edges. Japanese Minge
* DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS AT THE SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS CONFERENCE IN YORK *
We have just spent a brilliant few days in York at the Society of Bookbinders Conference. Thank you to everyone who came by our stand in the trade fair area and bought catalogues and journals!
Volumes of our highly regarded journal, The New Bookbinder, seemed very popular. TNB covers all aspects of binding, and includes articles on binding design, methods and techniques, contemporary and historical movements, profiles of prominent binders worldwide, book and small press reviews.
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* FESTIVAL BINDINGS *
We are delighted to share the first few images of Designer Bookbinders current exhibition, "Festival Bindings". The exhibition is currently on at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from 10 to 29 August 2026, the event coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Edinburgh Book Fair.
The private view took place on Monday 10th August. The exhibition showcases new and recent work crafted by 31 of today`s leading bookbinders, all Fellows and Licentiates of our society. Most of the bindings on display are offered for sale, with a number sold already.
The online catalogue is now available to view on our website here:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-bookbinders-at-the-national-library-of-scotland/
If you are interested in purchasing any of the books, please contact the binder directly using the "Contact Binder" link on the online catalogue.
NB. If you visit the exhibition and have photos you are willing to share with us, please send them directly to pem@designerbookbinders.org.uk!
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* FESTIVAL BINDINGS - COUNTDOWN TO THE EXHIBITION! *
There`s not long to go now...Designer Bookbinders will be exhibiting at the National Library of Scotland from the 10th - 29th August 2026. Running concurrently with the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Book Fair, this exciting exhibition will feature new and recent work by both Fellows and Licentiates of our society.
We are delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit during the Edinburgh Festival and hope that you will enjoy the variety of techniques, materials and craftsmanship as well as the different approaches to binding design in the 21st Century with which Design Bookbinders is associated.
Most of the bindings are available for sale and the online catalogue will be released following the private view. This catalogue features details of the bindings (both publication details and descriptions of the designs) and prices. For the next few days we will continue to whet your appetite with some thumbnails of the wonderful bindings that will be on display: can you spot the binder just from these little snapshots of their work?! Who is the binder that you are most looking forward to seeing new work from?
You can see a list of everyone with work in the exhibition by visiting the "Festival Bindings" page on the Designer Bookbinders website at the following link:
https://designerbookbinders.org.uk/festival-bindings/
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