Before I dive in, let me clarify that you don’t have to necessarily do leather stamping to add character to your leather journals. A simple, well crafted leather journal without any stamping […]
Yeah….who would have thought that folding corners would require some thinking and practice?! 🙂 But it does!! When you make a hard bound book using case binding, you have to cover the […]
If you’re an artist and would like to trade your art for handmade journals, please let me know! Drop a note below along with a description of what you’d like to barter, […]
In building a physical structure such as a book, it is so evident that mistakes, even if they’re quite small in isolation, really add up and get magnified when the final structure […]
Since I’ve begun making books, I’ve also begun spending more time writing in them. It’s amazing how making something yourself makes you so much more invested in a product 🙂 I have […]
I’ve been thinking about what bookbinding project to start next. Having made more than 20 journals by now, I’m at the point where I want to try something different. I love making […]
You never know where you might find something that could be a useful material for your bookbinding projects. Now that I’m learning book binding, I find that I can use a lot […]
When you first start making books, I think the initial attraction for many of us is to make something that looks beautiful and feels beautiful to write in. This is true for […]
Case book binding is one of the most popular methods of binding books. Also called hardcover binding, it almost encases a book in a “case”, hence the name (I think!). If you […]
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