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.
The Autumn Edit
November 2023
Brand new collection of stunning leather and vegan cork Journals and Sketchbooks in autumn's most vibrant colours. Prices from £19 to £249.
Selected Find A Maker Member
November, 2022
Find a Maker / CRAFT Festival
Making leather books as props for Villa Ventorum
2022
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.
Mentoring for creatives: 1-1 online guidance and support
February, 2023
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.
Featured in Country Homes & Interiors Magazine
November, 2023
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.
15 Years as a Maker: bookbinder Susan Green celebrates a business milestone
September, 2023
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".