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, […]
Anyone interested in bartering DIY handmade Art products?
Handmade journals as gifts
What do you do when your hobby involves making real life items that you cannot possibly use all by yourself? You gift them of course! 🙂 I love making books by hand. […]
Craftsmanship – Mistakes add up
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 […]
Best bookbinding method and materials for a writing journal
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 […]
Design and Craftsmanship in bookbinding
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 […]
How to make a DIY hardcover journal using case book binding
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 […]
How to make a miniature leather journal using medieval long stitch binding
Long stitch book binding method has existed for many centuries. It is a non-adhesive method for bindings books, ie, you don’t need to use any glue to do this binding. And it […]
Miniature handmade book
There is something about miniature books that is really quite breathtaking 🙂 I recently made one using case binding. It has 6 signatures, each using 4 sheets of paper, giving a total […]
5 ideas to make your book uniquely yours
Lately I’ve been thinking about what can I do to make my books “uniquely mine” – ie, how can I make them stand out vs looking like just another leather journal? Here […]
10 resources for book binding beginners
Book binding might seem simple from the outside – after all, how hard can it be to make a notebook? But as with any other craft, as you start getting into it, […]
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