The Fish Bindery

Located in Portland, Oregon, specializing in bookbinding, book restoration, protective boxes and hand decorated papers.

I use centuries old techniques, producing everything by hand. PLEASE use the contact form on my website, and NOT Facebook Messenger. Located in Portland, Oregon, The Fish Bindery specializes in bookbinding, book restoration, paper restoration and hand decorated papers. We use centuries old techniques, producing everything by hand.

05/04/2026

One of the things I love about being a bookbinder is, you never know what is going to come into the studio next. This book (an incunabula) from 1479, came in for a custom clamshell enclosure. I’ve included a couple of photos of the gorgeous hand illuminations found throughout the text. I’ll have more photos to share once it comes back into the studio for some minor stabilization.

01/13/2026

Happy everyone!!

01/06/2026

Happy first of 2026!

12/21/2025

Head to for your copy of “33 Reads”, and take a look at the variety of other pocket journals, and letterpress prints they have for sale! Happy Holidays everyone!!

04/01/2025

Happy

04/05/2024

A crazy few months have kept me away from posting in a while. My wife and I started off 2024 with a new home and studio space in North Portland. I finished setting up my studio space in March and have been working long hours to get through my lengthy list of client work. Here is one of the most recent restorations that went out the door today. This is a copy of “The Jefferson Bible”, which was reproduced from Thomas Jefferson’s original hand written notes for the US Congress in 1904. This was rebound in Aniline Straight Grain Goat, which has a spot-on grain pattern as the original. The cover and spine were tooled in 23k gold leaf.

12/15/2023

This repair left the studio today. Be sure to swipe through for before photos.

12/12/2023

Merry ! 🎄

12/07/2023

This Fannie Farmer cookbook left the studio today. Packaging tape encapsulated the covers and many of the internal pages. Thankfully it all came off, leaving minimal damage underneath. This heavily used cookbook is ready for many more years of use.