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We’re open to the public by appointment: Tuesday–Saturday 10am–6pm ☁️ all things books 📚 everyone welcome 👋 Please call or email to book an appointment

The London Centre for Book Arts will be closed for our annual winter break Saturday 21 December 2019 – Friday 3 January 2020. The studio, bindery, and shop will re-open on Saturday 4 January 2020.

Any online orders placed during this time will be dispatched on Monday 30 December 2019 & Thursday 2 January 2020.

Thank you for all of your support in 2019 and look forward to seeing you again in the new year!

Ira & Simon

For Christmas this year, we’re offering free gift wrapping on all online orders and in-store purchases of Making Books and bookbinding tool kits. For online orders, we recommend placing orders by Tuesday 17 December, and if you’re shopping in-person, we will be open until Friday 20 December before we close for our annual winter break. 

The second annual BOOK FAIR is Sunday 1 December, 11am–6pm, at the London Centre for Book Arts. All welcome!

A showcase of more than 30 independent UK and international publishers (and a jam maker) at an artist-run print studio and bindery housed within one of the few remaining Victorian industrial buildings in Fish Island E3.

Publishers: 3-Ply, A6 BOOKS, Akerman Daly, Book Works, Bricks from the Kiln, Bronze Age Editions, Chateau International, Clinic, Colorama, Four Corners Books, Good Press, Inga, Landfill Editions, Makina Books, Murmur Anthology, Occasional Papers, Onomatopee, Open Editions, Pilot Press, Primary Information, Prototype, PS London, Roma Publication, Rough Trade Books, Setsuko, Spector Books, Strange Attractor, Synchronise Witches, Talker, The Everyday Press, Tinted Window, Uniform Books

Join us Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 July 12–6pm for our Summer Open Studio as part of Hackney WickED, a celebration of culture in Fish Island and Hackney Wick. Come for books, a spot of printing, a chat and a browse. Drinks provided by our friends at East London Brewing. 

Another session just added! Come join us at the London Centre for Book Arts for Making Books Summer School, a week-long series of bookbinding workshops taught by experts in an active bindery in East London. Participants will meet for five consecutive days (Monday 26 – Friday 30 August) and learn how to use specialist tools and equipment (including foil-blocking) to create by hand six different book structures and a Solander box.

We’re open to the public Monday–Friday 10am–6pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am–5pm ☁️ all things books 📚 everyone welcome 👋

Come join us at the London Centre for Book Arts for our very first Making Books Summer School! A week-long series of bookbinding workshops taught by experts in an active bindery in east London. Participants will meet for five consecutive days (Monday 24 – Friday 28 June, 10am – 5pm) and learn how to use specialist tools and equipment (including foil-blocking) to create by hand six different book structures and a box. See you at the studio! 

We run a wide range of practical, hands-on workshops every weekend at the London Centre for Book Arts. The classes are taught by experts and range from traditional bookbinding, box & portfolio making, letterpress & Risograph printing, to self-publishing. Find out more by visiting our Workshops page.