Atelier Livreliure Arts and Crafts in Itxassou

The LIVRELIURE workshop is located in the heart of the Basque Country, in the village of Itxassou, 5 minutes from Espelette. This workshop offers you to discover the profession of bookbinding through traditional and ancestral techniques.

Enter the workshop and come and immerse yourself in an extraordinary universe with the scent of leather and paper that combines the variety of techniques with that of the materials used.

The workshop benefits from exceptional know-how and tools. Marjorie's many years of experience allow you to entrust her with your binding, gilding and restoration work with confidence. She will listen to you and advise you in your projects but also enhance your works.

The workshop is full of small treasures such as a percussion press (19th century), a vice to endorse (19th century) and a shears (19th century) but also gilding irons and other gilding tools (16th to 20th centuries). Meticulously stored in an old plan furniture - having already known three generations of bookbinders - you will have the chance to discover an exceptional collection of more than 600 sheets of marbled paper, the oldest of which date from the 18th century.

You can also let yourself be seduced by personal creations on sale directly at the store.

Traditional binding, contemporary binding, bibliophile binding, art binding, conservation binding, case, case, folder, gold leaf gilding, photo album, travel book, guest book, sketch book.