diff --git a/ocf_writer.go b/ocf_writer.go
index 32ec042..b28e740 100644
--- a/ocf_writer.go
+++ b/ocf_writer.go
@@ -228,6 +228,71 @@ func (ocfw *OCFWriter) appendDataIntoBlock(data []interface{}) error {
 	return err
 }
 
+
+// AppendBinary appends one or more binary data items to an OCF file in a block.
+func (ocfw *OCFWriter) AppendBinary(data [][]byte) error {
+	// Chunk data so no block has more than MaxBlockCount items.
+	for int64(len(data)) > MaxBlockCount {
+		if err := ocfw.appendBinaryDataIntoBlock(data[:MaxBlockCount]); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		data = data[MaxBlockCount:]
+	}
+	return ocfw.appendBinaryDataIntoBlock(data)
+}
+
+func (ocfw *OCFWriter) appendBinaryDataIntoBlock(data [][]byte) error {
+	var block []byte // working buffer for encoding data values
+	var err error
+
+	// Encode and concatenate each data item into the block
+	for _, datum := range data {
+		block = append(block, datum...)
+	}
+
+	switch ocfw.header.compressionID {
+	case compressionNull:
+		// no-op
+
+	case compressionDeflate:
+		// compress into new bytes buffer.
+		bb := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, len(block)))
+
+		cw, _ := flate.NewWriter(bb, flate.DefaultCompression)
+		// writing bytes to cw will compress bytes and send to bb.
+		if _, err := cw.Write(block); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err := cw.Close(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		block = bb.Bytes()
+
+	case compressionSnappy:
+		compressed := snappy.Encode(nil, block)
+
+		// OCF requires snappy to have CRC32 checksum after each snappy block
+		compressed = append(compressed, 0, 0, 0, 0)                                           // expand slice by 4 bytes so checksum will fit
+		binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(compressed[len(compressed)-4:], crc32.ChecksumIEEE(block)) // checksum of decompressed block
+
+		block = compressed
+
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("should not get here: cannot compress block using unrecognized compression: %d", ocfw.header.compressionID)
+
+	}
+
+	// create file data block
+	buf := make([]byte, 0, len(block)+ocfBlockConst) // pre-allocate block bytes
+	buf, _ = longBinaryFromNative(buf, len(data))    // block count (number of data items)
+	buf, _ = longBinaryFromNative(buf, len(block))   // block size (number of bytes in block)
+	buf = append(buf, block...)                      // serialized objects
+	buf = append(buf, ocfw.header.syncMarker[:]...)  // sync marker
+
+	_, err = ocfw.iow.Write(buf)
+	return err
+}
+
 // Codec returns the codec used by OCFWriter. This function provided because
 // upstream may be appending to existing OCF which uses a different schema than
 // requested during instantiation.