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London Centre for Book Arts

An open-access bookbinding and printing studio in Hackney Wick, where the point is to make the book rather than read it.

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Simon Goode and Ira Yonemura opened the centre in 2012 in a former works on Dace Road, on the industrial island between the canal and the Olympic Park, and it has become the place in London to learn the trade: a bindery of nipping presses and guillotines, a print studio with Adana and Vandercook presses and a Risograph, day courses in case binding, letterpress and pamphlet-making, and studio passes for those who have done them. The shop at the front sells the tools, the papers and the books it publishes about how to do it.

Where
Britannia Works, 56 Dace Road, E3 2NQ
Nearest station
Hackney Wick · 8 min walk

Hours

Monday10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday10:00 – 18:00
Thursday10:00 – 18:00
Friday10:00 – 18:00
Saturday10:00 – 18:00
SundayClosed

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 5 September 2026.

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