Artisanal binding

Notebooks, agendas and one-of-a-kind bindings, folded, stitched and cased by hand. Named after the bird-of-paradise flower and made with the same colour and nerve.

Strelitzia Books emblem: an open book with two bird-of-paradise flowers and a needle and thread

Brazilian spirit sits at the heart of Strelitzia Books. Every book starts as a stack of loose paper and ends as something you can hold for decades, with every signature folded, pierced and sewn by hand.

We take our colours from the strelitzia flower and turn the saturation up: rosa chok, violeta, amarelo canário, azul ciano and verde musgo. Use them boldly, mix them freely, and never lose the message.

  • Hand-sewn spines
  • Lay-flat pages
  • Made to order

Everyday books and once-in-a-lifetime ones. All of them sewn, none of them glued.

Notebooks

Blank, lined or dotted. Signatures folded and sewn one by one so the book opens flat and lasts for years.

  • Hardcover
  • Softcover
  • A5 · A6

Agendas

Planners and diaries sewn around your year: weekly, monthly or undated, with as many pages as you need.

  • 20 · 40 · 60 pages
  • Undated

Commissions

Wedding albums, guest books, portfolios, a thesis worth keeping. Tell us the idea and we will design the binding around it.

  • One of a kind
  • Custom sizes

Rebinding

Loose pages, broken spines, a family cookbook held together with tape. We re-sew and re-case the books you love.

  • Repairs
  • New covers

Our emblem changes clothes as freely as we do. Every notebook and agenda can be bound in any of the six signature colourways, each one drawn from the palette of the strelitzia.

  • Musgo colourway

    Musgo

    Moss cloth, canary flowers

  • Violeta colourway

    Violeta

    Violet cloth, cyan flowers

  • Rosa Chok colourway

    Rosa Chok

    Pink cloth, canary flowers

  • Canário colourway

    Canário

    Canary cloth, pink flowers

  • Canário & Musgo colourway

    Canário & Musgo

    Canary cloth, moss flowers

  • Azul Ciano colourway

    Azul Ciano

    Cyan cloth, violet flowers

  1. Choose

    Pick a format, paper and one of our colourways, or send us your own idea.

  2. Fold & pierce

    Every sheet is folded into signatures and pierced along the spine by hand.

  3. Sew

    The signatures are stitched together with waxed linen thread, one pass at a time.

  4. Case & send

    Covers are made, pressed and finished, then wrapped and sent your way.

A treasured book that needs saving, a gift that should last a lifetime, or a notebook in your favourite colours. Tell us about it and we will write back within two working days.

Send us a message

Every book starts with a conversation.