Bookbinding: Supplies; Retailers

Welcome to the Bookbinding Suppliers Page

Here you will find links to suppliers of bookbinding products;

UK based Suppliers;

Mixed book binding supplies

• Book Binding.co.uk Shepherd’s bookbinders in London.
• Bowstock Ltd; UK supplier they have linen threads and a selection of awls.
• Falkiners Fine Papers  Now trading as Shepherds. All kinds of bookbinding equipments and supplies, from papers to tools
• Fine Cut Graphic Imaging Limited: This is the home page of the site, but they have a bookbinding section. They make hand tools and a nipping press.
• Hilke Kurzke; B https://www.kurzke.co.uk/supplies/ my friend from the Book arts Forum days. She is a book artist and now lives in the UK. Hilke has a small business selling bookbinding supplies. You can find out about her and her blog on the link as well. *Congrats Hilke* 📖🌼
• J.Hewit & Sons; Bookbinding supplies and leather tanners.
• The Honey Doctor Stockists of Beeswax

Papers

• Elite Papers Limited Decorative Papers
• Falkiners Fine Papers  Now trading as Shepherds. All kinds of bookbinding equipments and supplies, from papers to tools
• PDA Card and Craft Suppliers of quality card and paper

Tools

• Bookbinding Supplies; Makers of really beautiful bindery equipment, presses etc. Bookbinding Supplies make hand crafted bookbinding equipment. They are based in the UK but also have stores in USA and Canada.
• Bowstock Ltd; UK supplier they have linen threads and a selection of awls.

Storage

Once you start collecting supplies, storage soon becomes an issue. Here are some great ways to organize your stash to keep it accessible and manageable.

Really Useful Box Company. Fantastic quality plastic boxes, available in a huge range of sizes. Some available as drawers in towers, and you can even get custom combinations of their most popular box sizes made into a tower for you.

Overseas Suppliers;

Books

• Keith A. Smith’s Books

Mixed book binding supplies

• Art Paper Paper and bookbinding supplies USA
• Aticus Studio Design Direct link to the bookbinding section of the site. USA
• Boektotaal; Many kinds of bookbinding supplies. Based in Netherlands
• Hollander’s; Based in USA. Decorative papers and bookbinding supplies. Based in the USA
• John Neal; Paper, bookbinding tools. Based in USA
• The Paper Studio; Decorative papers & bookbinding supplies. Based in the USA
• Papier Royaal Papers, Journals and bookbinding materials. Based in the Netherlands
• Talas All kinds of bookbinding products, tools papers etc
• Volcan Arts Papers and bookbinding tools. Based in the USA
• California Paper Goods; Based in Califonia this store stocks paper goods as well as a few tools for bookbinding. Tools

Papers

• Hiromi Paper International Beautiful decorative Papers. Based in CA

Screw Posts/Binding Screws

Also known as inter-screws, these are the metal posts often seen on scrapbooks.

• California Paper Goods; Based in Califonia this store stocks paper goods as well as a few tools for bookbinding. This store also stocks Aluminum screw posts (also know as inter screws/Chicago screws). These are the extendable posts you seen on scrapbook albums.
• Butonz.com Stockists of Screw Posts, the site calls them Binding Screws.
• Screw Post.com Stockists of Screw posts 😉

Tools

• Dennis Rudd Bookbinder and Box Maker but he also produces Teflon tools. Teflon folders, will not leave shiny burnish marks on your projects.
• Louete (NL) This site based in the Netherlands sells a vertacle plough, awl guage, cutting board and a rubber backed binder.

Conservation Supplies

• Green & Stone;  Art, Graphic & conservation suppliers

This page will be updated over time

Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon

Billie 🙂

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