Women’s bookbindings—whether made, designed, or owned by women—contain a wealth of evidence pointing to women’s roles in early modern cultures of creativity. These objects offer evidence of the interaction between women’s books and clothing as a feature of sartorial courtly spectacle; women’s use of binding ornaments to encode self-referential semiotic and cryptic meanings in the covers of books, pointing to provenance as not only ownership but creative agency; and women themselves as bookbinders with upmarket clientele, as in the case of the Little Gidding bindery, which was patronized by royalty. These different types of involvement in bookbindings show that bindings offered a multifarious expressive vehicle for women’s creative agency, which, these objects show, looms large in the early modern world.