Design Bindings for exhibition, competition and commission

Held in public, private and Royal collections around the world. Open to commissions

Jaws by Peter Benchley
Published by Suntup Editions
Bound in 2022
Edition of 10 books

Hand dyed fair goatskin
Hand tooled in platinum, custom made tools
Gradient and sprinkled edge decoration
Leather jointed hand painted endpapers
Silk sewn endbands

The Scales of The World by Alex Rigg
Published by Ocean All Over
Bound in 2024
Exhibiting throughout the US in 2025 for OPEN SET

Hand dyed fair goatskin
Gilded leather inlays
Graphite head decoration
Leather jointed hand painted endpapers


Letterpress printed pages and covers
Drum leaf structure with floating spine
Hand set and polymer plate text
Pressure print pages

Settle by Gillian Stewart
Self published artist book
Bound in California in 2022
Edition of 25


6 volumes
Sewn on linen tapes
Covers incised, embossed and platinum tooled
Housed in wool lined boxes

The Living Moutain
Nan Shepherd
Editions Leiper
Hand lettered and illustrated by Susie Leiper


Cyanotype printed and dyed Alum Tawed
Cyanotype leather jointed endpapers
Housed in a screen printed clamshell box
Finished with foil tooling

A Braird O’ Thristles
Poems by Douglas Young
Illustrations by George Bain
Published 1947, bound 2021


Hand painted goatskin
Ling stitch with silk thread
Hand drawn paper doublures

Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell
Hand lettered by the author and her daughter
Held in Royal Collection


Airbrushed Fair Goat
Tooled in genuine palladium and pigment foil
Leather jointed endpapers
All edges decorated

Love Poems
Collected by Imtiaz Dharker
Folio Society
Bound in 2024
Second Prize Winner Designer Bookbinder Comp


3 Piece structure
Cyanotype printed sides
Alum tawed Inlay
Genuine gold tooling
Hand painted head

The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer
Printed by Old Stile Press
Bound in 2021
Distinguished Winner DB International Competition
Now in Edinburgh University Special Collection


The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Published by the Folio Society
Bound in 2018
Winner of Set Book Second Prize in the Designer Bookbinders Competition

Hand dyed fair goatskin
Hand dyed, printed and tooled onlays
Gradient edge decoration
Leather jointed hand painted endpapers
Hand dyed silk endbands


Graphic Sayings by David Kindersley
Published by Skelton Press
Bound in 2018
Exhibited at the National Library of Scotland - ‘25 years of the Soutar Competition’

Bradel Structure
Fair goatskin, tooled blind and airbrushed
Hand dyed leather jointed endpapers
Hand painted and tooled paper doublures
Finished in genuine gold


Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
First edition
Bound in 2020

Quarter bound in full leather
Hand dyed fair goatskin and Pentland goat
Hand dyed inlays
Gold tooling with custom made tool
Hand dyed leather endbands
Cloth jointed endpaper with paper doublure


The Long Journey - collected poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Published and printed by Incline Press
Bound in 2019

Bradel structure
Sidings of hand dyed leather and watercolour paper
Hand dyed and tooled leather jointed endpaper
Paper doublure
Hand dyed leather endbands


Drum leaf binding
Cyanotype printed Kraft pages, foil blocked
Inlays of kid skin, handmade paper, cyanotype prints

‘Becoming’ artists book
Bound in 2020