Welcome to Hewits!

Our Online Shop is extensive and includes a wide selection of equipment, tools, materials and sundries, catering to the requirements of both craft and commercial bookbinders around the World. We endeavour to keep our range of products up to date, and often have company and product news to share with you. We regularly have discontinued and second-hand items to sell in the Bargain Basement section of our shop.

Please also have a look at our biannual newsletter Skin Deep, as it is packed full of interesting items. Lovely examples of our customer's work using our leather can be seen in the Showcase area.

We are a well established company with a 200 year History of manufacturing the finest quality leathers for bookbinding and leathergoods production. We are proud to have held a Royal Warrant for nearly 50 years, firstly to Her Majesty the late Queen Elizabeth II, and more recently to His Majesty King Charles III.

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Let customers speak for us

from 2166 reviews
Truly 1mm, Not 1mm+

True 1mm (not 1.2+ like others who claim 1.0mm), great for inboards and split board bindings of 2mm!

Elizabeth Snyder Adams
Gemini Olympic Millboard
My recent order for calf skin

The skin will do very well and your service was, as always, courteous and prompt. Thank you, Steven

Mr Smallwood
Special Offer Veg Tanned BV Calf
Good stuff

As good as expected

Baron
Aniline Leather Dye
My go-to choice

This is my go-to choice for book cloth. Lovely colours, easy to work with, hard wearing.

Anonymous
Arbelave Library Buckram
Great paste

Great paste. Lasts for ages in the tub.

Anonymous
Prepared Paste
Box corners always messy. The strong and shaped magnetic corner angles do the job

Box corners always messy with tape and blocks

Brian Hill
Magnetic Corner Clamps
Excellent company to deal

Excellent company to deal with

Anonymous
Flexible Animal Glue
It was exactally what we were looking for

It was exactally what we were looking for, and shipping was excellent

Queensland Bookbinders Guild
Fray Not Calico
Perfect and always reliable service

Perfect and always reliable service, thank you

Temple Bookbinders
Chieftain Goat - Grade III
I have found this paper useful in my rebinding work

I have found this paper useful in my rebinding work.

Anonymous
Shepherds Machine Age Compatible Paper
Excellent quality PVA

Excellent quality PVA perfect for use in artisanal bookbinding

Hugo Stevensen
PVA M289
Beautiful leather!

As always, such beautiful leather and even better customer service!

Todd Pattison
Pentland Goat
Great Stuff

As usual, the leather is beautiful and David and Andrew were friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. I’ll miss David but look forward to working with Andrew.

Don Glaister
Pentland Goat
Perfect for my miniature

Perfect for my miniature binding!

Gabrielle Fox Butler
Needle Vice & Needles
Lovely quality paper and really well packaged

Lovely quality paper and really well packaged.

Fiona Chaney
A6 Journal - Portrait Unruled
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