Meet the Member: Ali’s Paper

Meet our member Alessia from Ali’s Paper; she tells us about her business, her highlights & challenges of running her own business, and answers our Local Biz Quickfire.

Tell us a bit about yourself and what your business offers.

I’m a bookbinder I create handmade, unique, high quality products to keep memories and/or to use finest stationery everyday life. You can bespoke every single bit of my products.

How and Why Did Your Business Get Started?

I inherited the bookbinding fascination from my father, he was a bookbinder with his grandpa, then I make my first book in High school and since then it’s in me wherever I go. I tried to have my biz since finishing high school, but the life bring me around the world and only when I moved to UK I finally got the push to start it properly.

What’s been your biggest highlight of running your business?

I think to know myself more. To understand that I’m only one person and I need the time to get things done. To accept and to allow myself time to process and do things, but that I have to get things done instead then perfect.

What’s been your biggest challenge?

Understanding how a business has to run and how the culture is here, learning new way to do things.

What are your plans for the future of your business?

To grow awareness of the beauty of bookbinding; to let the people know that they can create their own incredible books with their hands. I’d love to create more bookbinding courses and new unique products.

What’s the best thing about being a member of Chiltern Biz Collective?

The community, the support and the networking.

How can people work with you and where can they find you?

I’d love to collaborate with other talented businesses, creating new products with new projects. I love branding and bring every single product to a high quality of craftsmanship.

Email me at: info@alispaper.com
Follow me on IG @alis.paper and on FB @alispaper