Phil's Custom Bindery

Phil's Custom Bindery Bookbinding in Seattle, Washington Welcome to the home of Phil's Custom Bindery.

We specialize in perfect binding, hardcover binding, book repair, along with other custom services to meet your needs. Whether your need is for new bookbinding, repair of your favorite bible, or to have your iPad cover embossed with your name, we have the skill and experience to get the job done. We are conveniently located in Seattle, Washington inside the Cloverdale Business Park near the First Avenue South Bridge, Highway 509 and Highway 599.

11/12/2020

Early bookbinding involved sewing pages together to create a spine. Wooden boards were initially used to help protect a book and its binding; ultimately, these boards were replaced with leather to make a sturdier book.

11/10/2020

Buddhist monks carried bound religious sutras from India to Persia, Afghanistan, Iran, and China during the first century BC. In Egypt, priests constructed similar religious books using papyrus and placed them in tombs for use in the afterlife.

11/05/2020

Did you know that there are many ways to bind a book? Some of the most commonly used bookbinding techniques include saddle-stitching, section sewn binding, perfect binding, Japanese binding, spiral coil binding, coptic binding and screw-post binding.

11/03/2020

Dust jackets in the art deco style of the 1920s are highly prized by collectors. In fact, some dust jackets from this era are worth many times more than the books they cover! Prices for these items have skyrocketed in the collector’s market in recent years.

10/29/2020

Does your library have a stack of books with damaged covers or bindings? You don’t have to throw them away and replace them. Library binding by a binding expert will not only get the book back into circulation, but it will also help it last a lot longer.

10/27/2020

Do you know what is Abibliophobia? Well, it's the greatest fear of book lovers. Abibliophobia is a phobia in which a person constantly fears running out of reading material.

10/22/2020

“If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.” – Author Unknown

10/20/2020

If you are a photography buff, at some point you need to gather your best work, assemble it, and create a book to share with family, friends, and guests. This is especially important with old photographs, as they will eventually fade beyond the point of salvage.

10/15/2020

The “case” of a book consists of the bookboards, the binding, and the spine. Bookboards cover the front and back of a book, while the binding connects the front and back bookboards. The spine is between the binding and the pages and is usually unseen.

10/13/2020

The McCune Collection in Vallejo, CA, is one of the few rare book and book binding collections open to the public. Visitors can also handle antique binding tools, printing presses, and rare and unusual printed materials ranging from the 1400s to the modern day.

10/08/2020

Did you know that very large, or very heavy books, may be bound, not with binding threads, but with wire to ensure long-term durability? When a wire-bound book is opened at its signature—that section of pages that is sewn down the middle to create a section of the book—the binding wires will be visible.

10/06/2020

Books that are sewn bound have thread, rather than wire, stitched down the length of the book’s spine. Sewn bound books may look very similar to case bound books.

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309 S Cloverdale Street UNIT A12
Seattle, WA
98108

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4pm
Friday 8:30am - 4pm

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