Let's create a custom Bible from the text block of your choosing!
You and I will work together to create a Bible that you would like: choose your preferred construction and leather, and we’ll customise your Bible around that. Have your favourite translation bound in leather, to your specifications.
I currently accept orders in the following translations:
- English: KJV, NKJV, NASB family (including LSB), ESV, CSB, NET, NIV, NLT
- Hungarian: Károli, Új fordítás, Revideált új fordítás
- Spanish: Reina-Valera, LBLA, NBLA, NVI
- Portuguese: Almeida, NVI
For these Bibles, we use an invoicing system: Calix will talk through the details with you via email or a video call, send you an invoice, and upon successful payment, start working on your order.
Our prices include all the customisation options below, and also shipping of the rebound Bible within the UK.
Customising your Bible
The cover: construction and liners
Paste-down/Hardcover Bibles
The Bible is glued to a liner, which in turn is glued to the cover. These Bibles tend to lay flat straight away. Cheaper construction, as I use paper or book cloth for the liner.
Edge-lined Bibles
The Bible is glued to a leather liner, cut in the middle to create two tabs which holds the Bible block. This liner is glued to the cover. To lay flat, sometimes these Bibles need to be used for a while (depending on the leather). More expensive construction, as leather is used for the liner.
Yapp — the amount of leather overhanging the Bible
Regular
About 7-8 mm overhang.
Full
The cover completely, or almost completely wraps around the Bible's page edges. It gives the most protection to the gilding and page dye against scratches.
Semi
More than regular, less than full — semi is in the eyes of the beholder! We can settle on this together when we design your Bible.
Decorations for the cover and liner
Tooled lines
Depending on the leather, I can put decorative lines on the cover and the liner. There can be many ways of doing this: single, double, on the edge of the cover, or hugging the book block.
Raised spine hubs
Primarily decorative, although for bigger Bibles I tend to find they increase grip. We can go many ways in the design of this: for example, how many, and whether equally or asymmetrically distanced.
For the book block
Page dye
Colouring the page edges. You can choose a colour, and if I can source it, you can have that on your Bible, creating a unique look. It adds a little protection against dirt and discolouration.
Head- and tailbands
In this picture, the white band between the ribbons and the liner. We can customise these in many colours and patters.
Ribbons
I'll use high quality ribbons for your Bible — the majority of our Bibles come with ribbons made by Berisfords in England. They can be wide, narrow, and as many as the thickness of the spine allows.
End-sheet (edge-lined Bibles)
In his photo, the green sheet, hiding the edge-line tab (you can see the small raised band on the right of the sheet. Again: the possibilities are vast when it comes to colour, texture, pattern...
Ordering & Questions:
