Est. 1960 · Karachi
Six decades on the same street.
Rehmani Sons has been binding and box making near Jang Press on I.I. Chundrigar Road since 1960.
The business began as a bindery. Printers on the street sent their sheets across, and they came back as ledgers, registers and books. That arrangement is still how a good part of the work arrives.
Over sixty years the objects changed. Ledgers became books, books became diaries, and diaries were joined by boxes. What did not change is that the difficult part — sewing, wrapping, fitting, foiling — is done here rather than sent out.
The floor is small enough that the person who cuts the board can see the person who strikes the foil. That is the whole argument for staying in one building.
1960
A bindery near Jang Press
The first floor was taken on I.I. Chundrigar Road, binding ledgers and registers for the printers and trading houses on the same street.
1970s
Books for publishers
Section sewing and case binding were added, and the work moved from ledgers to books for publishers and institutions.
1990s
Diaries and corporate work
Companies began ordering diaries in volume. Printing the interior, binding the block and stamping the cover all happened in the same building.
2010s
Rigid box making
Box making was brought in alongside binding — the same board, the same wrapping hands, a different object.
Today
Second and third generation
The floor is still on I.I. Chundrigar Road. Boxes and books are still made under one roof, and much of the work still arrives by word of mouth.