Handmade books with character.
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This journal is made with soft, yellowish Hahnemuhle Bugra paper, craquelle coloured reindeer leather and natural flax thread. Also the closure follows the same natural flax theme, with a coconut button as embellishment. The covers are lined with creamy white handmade paper. The endpapers are made with the lining paper, laminated with Mingeishi paper in the natural flax hue.
210 x 140mm
These are large – 29 x 22cm or 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches – journals/sketchbooks with flexible leather covers. The books are bound on leather thongs, which slot through the limp leather cover, and are glued down and, in the case of two books, also stitched through the cover.
The books have the same vintage endpapers.
Pages are of an artist quality drawing paper in a light caramel color (light yellow-brown).
Further detailing: edges of covers have a gold/silver coloured lining, and the books have leather endbands.
These books would be a perfect artist’s/designer’s working journal or as an outdoors notebook.
This little notebook is created with white silk, beaded lace and romantic details.
Inside the covers are two pockets one can tuck inspiration images and important notes into.
Height 14cm / 5.5 inches (including lace)
Width 16.5cm/ 6.5 inches
This drawing book has evolved over the last 6 month to its current form. It is large, has 46 leaves of high quality drawing paper (160gms) and opens flat. The covers are constructed of watercolour paper, so one can go on and extend the creative vibe outside the book as well. It’s relatively light weight, so it makes a perfect travel companion. Sharpen your pencils!
Height: 32cm Width: 24cm
In April 2005 I made this journal for my Japanese friend Yoko. She in turn sent me some wonderful calligraphy for my then new home. I don’t have the measurements of this journal anymore, but I estimate it to be around the same size as the red reindeer journal.
I also personalized the journal with some text. It reads
YOKOS BOOK
So far so close
soul meets soul
reaching over time and space
touching the heartfelt cords within
filling me with music
A commissioned reindeer journal is now on its way to its new home…
210 x 140mm
It is bound in flexible, hand dyed reindeer leather, lined with hand dyed pastepaper. It is long stitch bound, and has a closure that I found fitting to its overall character.
The paper for the pages is acid free, soft paper with a yellowish cream colour and very short brown fibers in it.
These are two little notebooks I made during my studies at the Tallinn Arts Academy in Estonia.
Candy Cells is bound in calf leather, which I batik dyed prior to covering. It has black endpapers of Ingres paper, and handmade endbands of coated Ingres.
80 x 60 mm
Days go by is bound in pigskin, with a burnt, linear pattern across its covers. Endpapers are made with a cream coloured Ingres paper, endbands are of dark brown leather.
80×60mm
This book was commissioned as a wedding gift – it was the reception guest book at a wedding. It is a Coptic binding with padded silk covers. The spines of the sections are lined with fragments of heart-patterned papers, keeping in the colour-theme of the wedding. Ribbon closures. Multi-coloured endpapers. The book is housed in a lined silk pouch with matching tassels.
140 x 140mm
Limp leather binding for the ease of handling, paste paper linings for the looks, handmade endbands in matching colours, and the closing strap with a Chinese coin for good fortune. A personal birthday present.
300 x 220mm
2006
A Romanesque binding with burnt wooden boards and tinted pages.
182×135mm
Coptic binding in wooden boards, with gold leaf details. White, acid free art paper.
135×135mm
I made this long-stitch binding in dark brown suede as a present. The endpapers made of a printed map (reproduction of a manuscript). Sewn with Finnish hand-spun linen thread. The closure is made of the same Finnish linen, ending with beads of bone, wood and shell.
This book fits snugly in the hand, and its soft materials and flexible binding add to the warmth…I just wanted to stroke the book like a little animal!
75 x 55mm
Write, draw, glue, paint…and when it’s full, start a new one.
- NJ09
