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A brief summary!
Firstly, you need to create a perfect sphere. Very easy to write, incredibly difficult to achieve….
Next, edit the map; because each globe is made to order we update our cartography regularly and personalise depending on our customers preferences.
We work with each customer one-on-one to help them design their globe exactly as they want it. This can sometimes be a process over months or even years.
Options of personalisation include adding hand drawn and hand painted illustrations, highlighting favourite places, adding places to the map, tracing family history, travel routes both land and sea, and anything else a customer might dream up.
We have designed maps to different eras, in different languages, and imaginary worlds. The customer is welcome to provide reference images and be as specific as they would like – or we can help with the research and suggestions around a theme or ideas.

Once the map is ready, it is printed and cut up hand into precise shapes called gores.

The gores are then hand painted using watercolours, the first few washes of colour go on while the gores are flat. A style of painting unique to Bellerby & Co globes that helps create beautiful oceans with texture and complexity.

When the gores are dry, they are ready to be attached to the globe, which is called ‘goring the globe’.

That stage is very precise work and very difficult because you’re wetting the paper and stretching it, wet paper as you can imagine is fragile.

The paper wants to rip, ripple or tear naturally. If you work with one piece too long it naturally degrades.

After the gores are applied many more layers and detail of watercolour are added and the globe is sealed with either a gloss or matte resin or varnish finish.

The globe is then placed into its base; we make a variety of traditional and modern bases of our own design which are fully hand built and finished to your preference.
We handcraft both modern and traditional floor standing and desktop bases in a variety of woods and metals in our London workshop.

Hand engraved detail on the Livingstone arm and hand engraving all the detail and commissioning mark on the Brass Meridians.

Once we are happy with the final outcome and have thoroughly checked the globe over, it is packaged carefully in either a bespoke “flight case” …

…. or a special made crate and shipped off to its new home.

We ship worldwide from London, England.

Photos by Euan Myles, Andy Lockley, Owen Harvey, Justin Ratcliffe, Kaori Oyama, Andrew Meredith, Aron Klein, and Paul Marc Mitchell.

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