About the service
Tell me how many photographs you want to keep and what the album is for, and I will build the book around that answer. A usual order runs from twelve to thirty spreads: a christening book comes out small and quiet, a wedding album needs room to breathe, and a family history covering forty years is closer to a book than to a gift. I plan the spreads before I cut anything, so you know in advance how many pictures sit on a page and where the empty space falls.
Binding is the part nobody thinks about beforehand and everybody notices later. Rings let you add spreads years afterwards and carry thick decorated pages without straining; a sewn binding on tapes looks quieter and opens flat, which matters, because a photograph that slides into the gutter is a photograph you stop looking at. I will tell you which one suits the weight of your pages rather than which one photographs better. Everything inside is acid-free and lignin-free - board, corners, adhesive - because paper with acid in it yellows prints and eats the edges of photographs within a decade, and this object is meant to outlive the occasion it was made for.
The photographs come from you, as files or as prints, and the rights to them are yours to answer for: I do not source images and I do not rework another photographer's frames without written permission from their author. If I print, I work with sizes from a small ten by fifteen up to a panorama across a full spread, and I will say plainly when a file is too small for the size you want. Pockets, tuck-in tags and vellum flaps hold the captions, so the words live next to the picture instead of on a loose sheet nobody reads. Decoration stays in proportion: an album stuffed with bulky ornaments simply will not close, and a book that gapes two fingers wide collects dust. The cover is fabric over binder's board - linen, cotton, velvet - with blind or foil embossing of a name and a date, and a matching slipcase or clamshell box so the album is not left standing in the light.
What is included:
— a spread-by-spread plan agreed with you before the work starts;
— acid-free pages, corners and pockets, all materials in the price;
— the binding of your choice, tested for flat opening;
— captions by hand or in print, proofread before assembly;
— a fabric cover with embossing and a storage box;
— photographs of the finished album before it ships.
The work takes from one week to two, and I would rather have your order early than hand you something assembled in a rush: glue dries under weight, embossing is done once, and a memory book made against the clock looks exactly like one.
Binding is the part nobody thinks about beforehand and everybody notices later. Rings let you add spreads years afterwards and carry thick decorated pages without straining; a sewn binding on tapes looks quieter and opens flat, which matters, because a photograph that slides into the gutter is a photograph you stop looking at. I will tell you which one suits the weight of your pages rather than which one photographs better. Everything inside is acid-free and lignin-free - board, corners, adhesive - because paper with acid in it yellows prints and eats the edges of photographs within a decade, and this object is meant to outlive the occasion it was made for.
The photographs come from you, as files or as prints, and the rights to them are yours to answer for: I do not source images and I do not rework another photographer's frames without written permission from their author. If I print, I work with sizes from a small ten by fifteen up to a panorama across a full spread, and I will say plainly when a file is too small for the size you want. Pockets, tuck-in tags and vellum flaps hold the captions, so the words live next to the picture instead of on a loose sheet nobody reads. Decoration stays in proportion: an album stuffed with bulky ornaments simply will not close, and a book that gapes two fingers wide collects dust. The cover is fabric over binder's board - linen, cotton, velvet - with blind or foil embossing of a name and a date, and a matching slipcase or clamshell box so the album is not left standing in the light.
What is included:
— a spread-by-spread plan agreed with you before the work starts;
— acid-free pages, corners and pockets, all materials in the price;
— the binding of your choice, tested for flat opening;
— captions by hand or in print, proofread before assembly;
— a fabric cover with embossing and a storage box;
— photographs of the finished album before it ships.
The work takes from one week to two, and I would rather have your order early than hand you something assembled in a rush: glue dries under weight, embossing is done once, and a memory book made against the clock looks exactly like one.
