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Paper Conservator

Victoria & Albert Museum

"The sewing structure alone tells you everything about longevity. Spine uses a linked-stitch Coptic that distributes tension across every signature equally — I have seen their rebinds outlast the originals."

On examining a 1742 folio atlas rebind commissioned through Spine, the sewing tension was within 4% variance across all 22 signatures — a result typically only achievable with machine assistance.

Rare Book Collector

Private Collection, Edinburgh

"I commissioned a rebind of a 1763 Boswell first edition that had been stored in a damp estate library for sixty years. What came back was — I can only say it — better than the original."

The project took eleven weeks. The new calfskin was sourced from a tannery in Córdoba, tooled with the original blind-stamp pattern reproduced from archival photographs. The spine lettering was hand-gilded in 24-carat leaf.

Editorial Director

Inkstone Press, London

"For our limited-edition poetry series we needed twelve copies that would function as art objects. Spine delivered Japanese stab-stitched covers in hand-dyed linen with exposed binding — every copy slightly different, intentionally."

The edition sold out in three days. Two copies entered gallery collections within the month. The binding method became the headline of every review — not the poetry.