Annesi Bindings | Paradosis Press

Bookbinder & Aspirant Publisher

Where handbound and digital meet...

I bind handbound leather books that I sometimes sell here. These are usually biblical and early Christian texts that I have typeset and published myself under the Paradosis Press imprint. If you don't see any here, that is because they have sold out. I don't take commissions, but usually put a batch of books up for sale and announce the details the day before. Please follow me on Instagram or Facebook to be notified of updates.

However, I am also starting to sell digital packages that will enable anyone with a printer and a bit of glue to bind their own book. These Bind-Your-Own-MiniBook packages are still in development and this website will hopefully be updated soon, with news of similar packages for my larger hand-sized books.

Bind-Your-Own-Book

These products are digital packages that contain the files necessary to enable you to bind your own books - all you need is a printer and a bit of glue! These are still in development and more titles and formats will be added soon.

St John's Gospel - A4 Version
St John's Gospel - A4 Version
St John's Gospel - A4 Version
Bind-Your-Own-MiniBook Digital Package
$2.25 or more
St John's Gospel - Letter Version
St John's Gospel - Letter Version
St John's Gospel - Letter Version
Bind-Your-Own-MiniBook Digital Package
$2.25 or more

About Me

Macrina Walker

I have loved books for as long as I can remember, but becoming a bookbinder was an unexpected development. I read, wrote, and edited texts in a previous life, and even dabbled in layout. But I never stopped to think about how a book is actually held together. That changed when I entered an enclosed monastery in the Netherlands and was assigned to work in its bookbindery. I was gradually initiated into the various facets of bookbinding and discovered, to my joy, that binding could be combined with various creative impulses to create works of real beauty.

I later left the monastery in order to become an Orthodox Christian. Returning to South Africa, I turned to bookbinding as a way of supporting myself. 

More recently still, I have been returning to the world of typesetting and layout as I have begun to produce my own text blocks. In this way I hope that I will be able to share with others treasures that I have discovered along the way,