The Otter Bindery offers a full print, bind and publish service. We specialise in printing on beautiful handmade papers and can offer you an extensive choice to suit your taste and budget. Our client’s range from individuals wishing to print a one off book to large organisations who require hundreds or thousands of books bound. We offer a variety of styles ranging from paperback to full leather bindings. We welcome creative and artistically orientated projects and can help turn your ideas into realities.
Please see below for some past examples of our work:
This is a facsimile of a diary that was written in the 1930's. The book had been scanned originally rather crookedly so each jpeg was straightened and set out in a publishing programme so that it would print in a way that could be folded and sewn so as to open easily and be bound in the traditional manner.
These were printed in-house in single page format on a good quality cream cartridge paper. The text block was stab stitched and then bound in a teracotta goat skin before having the title embossed in gold.
This was commissioned as a gift to record wine tastings. The book was printed on a cream cartridge in landscape with columns designed and pages printed so that real sections could be printed, folded and sewn in folds so that the pages opened out flat. The book was bound in a native morocco goatskin with linen front and back and gold lettering on the front.
First fly leaft with front title page showing and red endpapers with marker ribbon visible
The finished Book