About Us
We believe we have a book for every occasion, whether you're looking for something large or small, playful or corporate - and if we don't have exactly what you have in mind, we can create it!
BeGolden was founded in the late 00s with the dream of creating products that embraced colour, detail, individuality and texture. Having started with a wide range of stationery, we now focus on what we do best: beautiful hand-bound, personalised books.
At BeGolden we take huge pride in what we do and spend all our working days creating beautiful and unique guest books and photo albums that will last a lifetime.
Handmade in the UK
All our books are made at our workshop in the UK using time-honoured bookbinding techniques and real craftsmanship. Our paper and board is bound with head bands, tail bands and endpapers - all the traditional tools.
Traditional Printing Techniques
We hot foil print the covers by hand using old Marshall print presses and either metal printing plates or tiny little brass letterpress type. We deliberately avoid the ease of digital printing as we believe hot foil press gives a higher precision finish. When you run your hand over the cover of your BeGolden photo album or guest book, you'll be able to feel the impression of the letters.
In designing and creating our collection of personalised books and albums, our intention has always been to offer a range where everyone can find what they are looking for. However, we're always excited by our customers' ideas and are happy to help with any one-off requests. We can print bespoke logos, fulfil corporate orders, print with different creative fonts, rush jobs through, change the colours around - you name it! Just email us on hello@begolden.co.uk and we'll do our very best!+
Our Materials
We use three different types of material cover all our guest books and photo albums: recycled leather; linen bookcloth and 'jewel' bookcloth, all of which produce different and distinct results.
Our recycled leather range is our most popular, perhaps because it carries over the traditional idea of how a photo album should be (bound in leather, printed in gold etc). However, due to the recycled nature of the material, and the mainly contemporary fonts that we choose, the overall impression is very modern.
Linen bookcloth always has a strong appeal as it is so simple, natural and organic in feel. Our colours in this range are muted and soft giving the photo albums and guest books a timeless elegance. These books are also extremely tactile thanks to linen's distinctive weave and texture.
And lastly our 'jewel' range: an absolute showstopper and our most premium offering. Jewel bookcloth is slightly iridescent with a remarkable pigmentation and depth of colour that is sumptuous to stroke and beguiling to the eye. We match this gleaming bookcloth with a whole host of new fonts to keep our photo albums and guest books relevant and exciting!
We are a family business owned by Bobby (who has had the business for the last fifteen years) who runs it alongside her sister Claire. Helen marvellously manages the printing team and Bobby's three grown up children ( Minnie, Mac and Lola) do everything from running the social media accounts to modelling, from mending the machines to collecting the books from the bookbindery.
It's an 'all hands on deck' type of place and we all genuinely love coming to work. The workshop itself is full of colour, texture, paint, cloth and leather filling the room with amazing smells and sights and Radio 4 is constantly on; it's a very stimulating place to be.
Meet our Founder
Having worked agency-side throughout her career, Bobby understands the importance of superb customer service, meeting expectations, timely delivery and personally answering every email (unless they are offering free SEO, cosmetic surgery or a chance to win £5,000).
Biggest achievement: Keeping her tortoise alive for 43 years
Biggest ambition: To get BeGolden into Liberty London
Biggest mistake: Paying an Italian supplier €57,000 rather than €5,700 (luckily, it was refunded!)
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