The J. Hewit & Sons Award of $500 for the 'Interesting Use of Leather'
Winner Katy Starr-Baum, USA - @wallflowerbindery

The Helen Fragments
by Homer
Translated by Richard Siebert
Illustrated by Winifred McNeill Published by Editions Koch, Berkeley, California, 2003

"Full leather laced-in boards binding, sewn on meeting guards. Bound in maroon goatskin, with onlays of treated leather over back-pared onlays. Painted paper edge-to-edge doublures and flexi-end flyleaves of the same. Natural edges. Hand-sewn silk endbands. Bound in 2024"

Our warmest congratulations go to Katy

Coming to you here with an important announcement: we're making some changes to our online presence this year, and the first step is that we've updated our social media handles! We wanted to make it a bit easier to find us, so now we are @hewits.leather on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

You'll also see that our logo has had a bit of a refresh! Being one of the oldest family run businesses is Scotland is a proud achievement of ours, and our new layout highlights our year of founding over 200 years ago. You'll be seeing this new logo roll out as we gradually replace old literature this year.

You can expect these future changes later in the year

We're excited to announce the launch of our new bookbinding kits!

These kits include all the materials, pre-cut to size, to make a casebound book, along with the essential tools needed to assemble it. There are 7 different designs to choose from, all made using different combinations of the materials available from our shop, and each design can be ordered individually, letting you collect the whole series. These kits are a fun activity to do with family or friends, and can make the perfect gift for those crafty people in your life!

We teamed up with Gillian Stewart from JuJu Books, a Scottish-based prize-winning bookbinder, to make these kits. Gillian lent us her bookbinding expertise to help design the kits, and her step-by-step video tutorial will guide you through the process until you have your very own handmade book!

The bookbinding kits can be ordered on our shop now.