Traditional hand-bound books to feed your faith
Welcome to the Book Repair section. Here you’ll find detailed descriptions, step-by-step guides, and before-and-after examples of Bibles, Missals, and other treasured books to help you start your book repair journey with a profession bookbinder. Each post links back to our main Book Repair page, where you can learn more about my bookbinding and book repair services.
1962 Altar Missal…for a hermit! Fr. John has been a dear friend for many years, and when he eventually retired, he decided he wanted to learn to say the Traditional Latin Mass. He was retiring to a property he’d been left by an aunt, and which he was converting into what can only be described […]
The St. Andrew’s Daily Missal A surprisingly challenging project to replace the ribbons in this famous 1920s hand Missal, full of stunning illustrations and learned commentary Sometimes, a client’s ‘simple request’ can be fraught with hidden complexities. “It only needs the ribbons replacing, really” is what I was told, and yet, performing that task on this
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