Competitions

Annual Competition

The aims of The Bookbinding Competition have always been to encourage professionals, amateurs and students to produce originally designed and well bound books, and to give them the opportunity to exhibit their technical and artistic skills.

The Competition has been very successful in fulfilling these aims and its continuation is seen as essential to the vigour of the art of bookbinding in Britain today. Entry is open to all binders (except DB Fellows) who trained in Britain and who are resident in the UK at the time of completing their binding.

For information on the forthcoming Bookbinding Competition or to see the results and some of the books from previous competitions, make a selection…

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Many fine bookbinders have been discovered as a result of winning prizes at the Competition and have gone on to apply for Licentiateship and Fellowship within the society.

The ‘Set Book’, compulsory for all entrants, is currently donated each year by the Folio Society.