The Bindery

Goodbye friends, we've wrapped up all our client work and will entirely close shop after one big final liquidation sale on Saturday, July 19th. Come say goodbye and buy our cool collection of vintage furniture, books, office items, remaining materials and store stock...etc!

Swipe through for details on what's up (with an e-newsletter pending for slightly more details..and screenreader friendliness!) Basically, it's been a wild ride and I, Zach, thank the wonderful community I've had the pleasure of working for, learning from, and growing with. Binding and repair services will continue via our former employees Daniel and Michelle in their own private studios: classes will continue via our wonderful colleagues at .

will, of course, live on: we were just its stewards for the past 7 years: MZF shall never die :) Follow as always for updates on the next fest.

Follow for pending news of its continuation/transition to Ithaca, NY in the next year or so.

Lastly, feel free to find me at [email protected] for any final thoughts/questions, though response time might be slow. Come by on July 19th to give me a high-five and experience our final chaos.

TYPEWRITER SALE! Over 30 vintage manual typewriters will be up for grabs at this Friday's Paper Pals Pop Up as part of Bay View Gallery Night!

Various brands, styles, eras, and conditions (aka some are perfect and ready to roll, others need cleaning and love...but will be offered on the cheap!)

Come see what's in all these glorious cases 5pm to 9pm at BVGN, May 30th, here at The Bindery as part of our mini stationery fest. Buy a machine and some paper goods to type on!

Psst: , , and , help us spread the nerdy-word? 🤓

See everyone for .mke!

Getting a little crop of notebooks together for ! We've resurrected a few recent sellouts... but in small numbers that won't be made again!

Stop by our table to pick up these limited editions with letterpressed and Risographed covers/endsheets. All lovingly handmade by humans here in our shop in Milwaukee.

Can't wait to see everyone this Saturday, 4/19 at Central Library!

Rustling up some more Long-Form Notebooks for on April 19th! Our little sidearm brand, will make a cameo appearance with us at the fest with some of our most popular items (from both team Bindery and team Onward!)

Come snag a notebook or three while you're at the fest--100% handmade, tariff free, with recycled papers from just across the lake in Michigan! Get the good stuff while the gettin' is good.

TWO WEEKS AWAY! Milwaukee Zine Fest is the most magical, humongous, diverse, and inspiring thing The Bindery helps birth each year...we could not be more proud of our own zine team, our partner (), our volunteers, and--mainly--our dozens of incredible vendors who come from all over the country to bring their creative excellence to shine for the public.

FULL VENDOR LIST now live on milwaukeezinefest.org. It's going to be such an amazing year and you should have a total fear-of-missing-out moment... and just join us for:

- A proactively diverse vendor pool (MZF's process focuses on DEI)!
- Free workshops and experiences all day long (schedule posted next week)!
- Over 120 vendors of zines and other independently published works on paper!
- Food and coffee trucks!
- Special sneak peeks into Central Library's various rooms/offerings!
- All gender bathrooms!
- Quiet "sensory" room to duck away into!
- Over 3,000 *guests* from various backgrounds (that's you)!

Letterpress posters going up around town (or snag one at the fest to support us)! Art by ; typesetting and printing done right here in-house.