Artisan bookbinder Susan Green has worked from her Dorset studio since 2008 to make fine leather Artist's Sketchbooks, Journals, Memory & Wedding Guest Books, with vegan & eco-friendly options. Focusing on tactility & simple design, she makes space for others' creativity, memories & reflections. Susan offers 1-to-1 online mentoring for creatives.
Susan's Ready to Ship collection ships worldwide. She also works to commission to make personalised books for special events, corporate clients, etc.
Focus:
Exquisitely beautiful yet practical books. Digital bookbinding resources & 1-1 online mentoring for creatives who want to extend their practice into book forms.
A huge team of craftspeople, artists, historians, architects and designers brought Villa Ventorum to life. I was commissioned to design and make 12 limp leather books and several scroll fastenings.
Bookbinder & mentor Susan Green offers individual online mentoring sessions for creatives who wish to extend their practice into book form(s). One-off or a series of sessions available, delivered via Zoom.
A 4 page feature in Country Homes & Interiors 'best of British talent' special edition tells the unusual story of how I came to be a bookbinder, what motivates me and what I focus on in my work.
From a chance encounter with a library book that changed the course of her working life, to her largest commission to date for an impressive reproduction Roman villa at The Newt in Somerset, Dorset bookbinder Susan Green has been looking over the past 15 years as a maker and small business owner. She says her career to date has been full of "unexpected surprises and steep learning curves".
A new collection of digital resources to help anyone who wants to make handmade books.
I enjoy using sustainable natural materials, such as linen, cotton rag paper made from textile industry waste, and cork textile, in addition to leather as a byproduct of the food industry.
Mini Journals were born out of a desire to reduce studio waste of natural materials; I use small pieces of leather and cork leftover from larger projects to make pocket-sized miniature notebooks (and they've become one of my bestsellers, happily).
Artisan bookbinder Susan Green has worked from her Dorset studio since 2008 to make fine leather Artist's Sketchbooks, Journals, Memory & Wedding Guest Books, with vegan & eco-friendly options. Focusing on tactility & simple design, she makes space for others' creativity, memories & reflections. Susan offers 1-to-1 online mentoring for creatives.
Susan's Ready to Ship collection ships worldwide. She also works to commission to make personalised books for special events, corporate clients, etc.
Focus:
Exquisitely beautiful yet practical books. Digital bookbinding resources & 1-1 online mentoring for creatives who want to extend their practice into book forms.
A huge team of craftspeople, artists, historians, architects and designers brought Villa Ventorum to life. I was commissioned to design and make 12 limp leather books and several scroll fastenings.
Bookbinder & mentor Susan Green offers individual online mentoring sessions for creatives who wish to extend their practice into book form(s). One-off or a series of sessions available, delivered via Zoom.
A 4 page feature in Country Homes & Interiors 'best of British talent' special edition tells the unusual story of how I came to be a bookbinder, what motivates me and what I focus on in my work.
From a chance encounter with a library book that changed the course of her working life, to her largest commission to date for an impressive reproduction Roman villa at The Newt in Somerset, Dorset bookbinder Susan Green has been looking over the past 15 years as a maker and small business owner. She says her career to date has been full of "unexpected surprises and steep learning curves".
A new collection of digital resources to help anyone who wants to make handmade books.
I enjoy using sustainable natural materials, such as linen, cotton rag paper made from textile industry waste, and cork textile, in addition to leather as a byproduct of the food industry.
Mini Journals were born out of a desire to reduce studio waste of natural materials; I use small pieces of leather and cork leftover from larger projects to make pocket-sized miniature notebooks (and they've become one of my bestsellers, happily).
