Black Cat Bindery

Black Cat Bindery Traditional Craft Bookbinders Traditional craft bookbinders offering a bespoke service.

We bind limited editions for private press companies as well as one off presentation bindings for companies and individuals. Presentation and storage boxes for fine art collections and photographs are made to order as well as photograph albums and scrap books.

16/09/2026

Edge paring leather

15/09/2026

End banding

14/09/2026

Creating the joint using my lovely old Starr backer. Therapeutic workshop noises.

14/09/2026

Rounding the spine of a book and marking it up ready to back it ( make joints for the boards to snuggle up into 😜)

11/09/2026

Who needs the gym when you have a guillotine with a hand propelled fly wheel 😺

10/09/2026

6 books on one sewing frame.

08/09/2026

Sewing a limited edition. One volume down, twenty-one to go 😋 I’m going to sew them four to the frame and then separate. This means I don’t need to set the sewing frame up each time.

07/09/2026

1948 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Folio Society Illustrated by Edward Bawden. Bound in hand dyed natural goatskin with blind tooling, raised bands on spine, hand dyed fly leaves and leather doublures with decorative tooling. Slipcase covered in original dust jacket.

03/09/2026

Gulliver’s Travels bound in hand dyed calf with leather doublures

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Shepton Mallet

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+447403166023

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