Kyosti Bookbinders

Albums can be bound in your choice of leather, bookbinding cloth, furnishing fabric, etc, or even in your own fabric - maybe to match your wedding dress!

Albums are constructed like this, using posts, or interscrews.

The interscrews hold together the back cover, contents and front cover, with a flap for the spine to cover the back of the contents.

Depending on the album size and your requirements, the interscrews will be spaced for a two-hole or three-hole punch or whatever other spacing you might need.

The ends of the interscrews are concealed by a fold-over flap.

This album, for photo pocket pages, is covered in tapestry fabric and also with a padded cover. Hardwearing and durable, this is a very popular and practical item.

The most exquisite wedding scrapbooking album - made to order, using the bride's cream coloured raw silk dress fabric, trimmed with organza/silk/gold ribbons. The front cover is padded and decorated with fabric roses in the colour that the bride carried.

Patricia, who works at the bindery, designed and made this really super photo album for herself. The cover features a photo inset into the imitation leather and the inside lining of floral vinyl goes perfectly with it. The 3 posts allow extra pages to be added, and she sized it to take A4 plastic sleeves (from any stationery shop) to protect the black photographic pages.

This portfolio of professional photographs showing various houses and townhouse developments built by a contractor is a post-bound album, using interscrews to allow more pages to be added. The layout is A3 portrait.
The descriptions for each set of photos were printed in gold on the tissue paper between the pages, and the title of the book was gold-foiled onto the black imitation leather cover.

This A4-sized baby album is a bit different - it is bound as a proper book, an absolutely wonderful way to keep a record of your baby's growth! Jen, an expectant mother, found that none of the local shops stocked anything of the quality and type of design that she liked. So she approached us to make up internal pages with a very simple and classic layout, just the heading and an elegant page decoration, printed on thick acid-free paper. Page separators will accommodate the extra thickness that will come as the baby grows up and photographs are scrapbooked in. The hardboard covers are padded and covered with chocolate brown suede fabric and trimmed with a cream-coloured satin bow on the front, a plain matching ribbon on the back and a matching marker ribbon. It really is exquisite. And the lovely thing is, that while I was making up this entry, Jen phoned to say that she received her book safely and is just so, so pleased with it!
			An art portfolio album, also A3 landscape, covered in rich burgundy synthetic leather with gold foiling


			A repeat client, this time for two black A3 albums to showcase her work for the year. One has a "window" opening on the front to show through to the first page, and the other has colourful marker ribbons.

This set of leather display portfolios was made for a very swish presentation by an advertising agency. The glossy brown sheepskin nappa was blind embossed on the front with the title, and on the back with the agency logo. Concealed interscrews held the pages and a leather pocket on the inside back cover held a CD.