(last updated: 10 March 2017)
LOCAL
Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands
- Opus Framing & Art Supplies, Victoria
- Pat Bay Leather (leather wholesaler), 250-656-5115 , BC (ask for Vern Theroux)
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Irish Linen Stores linen yardage.
- Island Blue 905 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8V (250) 385-9786
- Illtyd Perkins Woodworking, Salt Spring, BC. Email, 250-653-9392
- The Edge Sharpening, 46 Crease Ave., Victoria, BC. Email, 250-475-8818: Sharpening of board-cutter blades, guillotine blades, spokeshave blade (i.e., for leather paring)
- Stone Trends Marble & Granite, Sidney, BC. 250-655-626
CANADA
- Fisher’s Continental Ltd This is a Vancouver company that sells millboard (not acid-free) and card. Also hot stamping foils.
- Paper-Ya, Vancouver BC
- Art Placement 228 – 3rd Ave. S.Saskatoon SK S7K 1L9 Phone: 306-664-3931 Email: supplies@artplacement.com
- Columbia Finishing Mills Inc 135 Boundary Road
Cornwall ON K6H 5T3 Phone: 800-267-9174 – bookboard (100 sheet minimum – will cut to size), bookcloths, bindery supplies, tag and label products - Indigo Instruments in Waterloo, ON Rare earth magnets –
extensive selection of magnets – all sizes and shapes. - George Hill & Co, Milton, ON
- Japanese Paper Place, Toronto ON
- Opus Framing & Art Supplies, Vancouver BC
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Papeterie Saint-Armand, Montreal
UK
- Conways of Halifax
- J. Hewit & Sons Ltd. Kinauld Leather Works Currie
Edinburgh Scotland EH14 5RS
Phone: +44 (0) 131 449 2206 – Leather, bookbinding supplies – may reduce the substance to skiver thickness on request (skivers (when the leather is shaved down to less than 0.5 mm) are usually quite weak but fine for covering boxes etc), produce newsletter “Skin Deep” - John Purcell 15 Rumsey Road London SW9 0TR
UK Phone: 0171 737 5199- papers: high quality British and European text and art papers, decorative papers - Ratchford Limited
- Russels Fine Leather
- Shepherds
US
- Washi Fine Arts: Fine Japanese Tools, Papers, and Supplies (Blaine, WA)
- Affordable Binding Equipment (ABE) (California)
- Chicago Screws – for any items that are manufactured in the US, there is no duty
- Hiromi Paper Inc.: bookcloth (California)
- Hollanders (Michigan)
- Mechling: Book leather, tools (Pennsylvania)
- New York Central Arts Supply (New York)
- Pergamena: bookbinding leather & parchment (New York)
- Renaissance Graphic Arts (Pennsylvania)
- Talas (New York)