Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the Sapling \\ Seedling Bindery provides custom bookbinding & book repair services

Bold blue leather thrift-shop pants turned bold blue hardcover notebooks!  View high resolution

Bold blue leather thrift-shop pants turned bold blue hardcover notebooks! 

Mark your Calendars!

The Sapling Seedling Bindery will be offering up a shelf full of handmade books, cahiers and journals including these new patterned notebooks.

And as always, if you have a well-loved book in need of repair bring it along for a free quote. The Bindery offers a wide range of book repair and bookbinding services!


Red vegan leather quadrille cahier — get ready to see these in black and grey as well! View high resolution

Red vegan leather quadrille cahier — get ready to see these in black and grey as well!

Hip to be square! New this season — Quadrille Cahiers. View high resolution

Hip to be square! New this season — Quadrille Cahiers.

Making some journals with marbled paper pastedowns in the Bindery View high resolution

Making some journals with marbled paper pastedowns in the Bindery

Time in the (homemade) book press. Details of the repairs to this New Oxford Annotated Bible also to come!  View high resolution

Time in the (homemade) book press. Details of the repairs to this New Oxford Annotated Bible also to come! 

Finishing a repair on “Mr. Pine’s Purple House” — details of the repair on this lovely children’s book to come!

Finishing a repair on “Mr. Pine’s Purple House” — details of the repair on this lovely children’s book to come!

The Sapling Seedling Bindery is at the Raw Sugar Cafe from 10-4pm today as part of the Chinatown Holiday Walk! This is my last show before Christmas, hope to see you here :) View high resolution

The Sapling Seedling Bindery is at the Raw Sugar Cafe from 10-4pm today as part of the Chinatown Holiday Walk! This is my last show before Christmas, hope to see you here :)

Come one, Come all! The Sapling Seedling Bindery will be celebrating its first craft walk anniversary at the Raw Sugar Cafe. I’ll be offering a shelf load of hand bound notebooks, journals, cahiers and other bound treasures as part of : 

Chinatown Ottawa’s Holiday Craft Walk!

Presented by :

* Raw Sugar Cafe

** Shanghai Restaurant

*** The Daily Grind Art Cafe

Chinatown is getting crafty, brimming with Ottawa’s coolest artisans & crafters. All within three blocks, right in the heart of Chinatown. 

When: Sunday, December 9th, 10am - 4pm
Where: Somerset St. W., near Bronson and Percy (Ottawa)
Cover: $3 for all three locations



Cahiers — get them today at Idle Hands Holiday Edition today until 5pm at St.Anthonys Banquet Hall. View high resolution

Cahiers — get them today at Idle Hands Holiday Edition today until 5pm at St.Anthonys Banquet Hall.

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