Angela Sutton: bookbinding & book repair

Angela Sutton's YouTube channel now features a number of videos that demonstrate many bookbinding techniques.

Click the image on the right for the video player on the Techniques page of this website. There are 28 videos in all, including 9 newly published in February 2021.

Angela Sutton has been binding and repairing books since 1971, learning first of all from Ian Ross at the old Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes).

Click for Angela Sutton's video player on the techniques page

TEACHING

Angela Sutton leading a workshop as part of the Worcester Literary Festival 2011 Photo: Angela Lloyd-James

She taught bookbinding at Malvern Hills College in Worcestershire for many years, and also residential courses at Urchfont Manor in Wiltshire until its closure by the County Council in 2012. After the transfer of equipment from Urchfont to Dillington House in Somerset, Angela was the programme planner and a regular tutor for the residential courses held there until its closure by the local council in 2023. She continues to teach various workshops at a wide variety of venues.

INSTRUCTIONS
IN BOOKBINDING:
Book or CD ROM

Angela Sutton has produced a manual of bookbinding instructions, Bookbinding in Pictures. This is designed to be used by beginners working at home on their own. It is available in book or CD form through PayPal and by post to anywhere in the world.

"In clarity of instruction
and format, this is the best beginners’ book
to come out in years."
Sandy Cohen,
US Guild of Bookworkers

Click the image above for further details, reviews, comments and PayPal link.

YOUR BOOKS RESTORED

The original state of the book below, Hooker's Works, can be seen on the Case Studies page. The box in the picture was made by Malcolm Hopper, one of Angela Sutton's students at South Worcestershire College.

Angela Sutton

Click on the image below
for photographic and
audio-visual illustrations
of Angela Sutton's
bookbinding and
book repair work.

Marbled paper by the late Ann Muir

CASE STUDY

Click the image below for a 2-page PDF featuring Angela Sutton's work to restore a set of 19th century biblical commentary.

The finished book is superb. Honestly, what an exquisite job you’ve made of it – what a comsummate craftsperson you are. Truly Angie I’m over the moon.
Jan Hargreaves