Isabelle Ting McGowan has a background in Fine Arts and trained as a bookbinder in Florence, and at the bench of various fine bookbinders in Italy, France and UK.

In 2006 she set up her own Bindery in Edinburgh, Scotland and worked for public and private institutions and individual clients.

She provides bookbinding services to museums, galleries and libraries, heritage archives, bibliophiles as well as antiquarian book dealers.