This is an A5 journal made with 110gsm weight art paper. The cover is a light weight dark olive leather, reinforced on the spine with a stiff tan leather. It is sewn with a beige linen thread and secured using chocolate coloured, leather buttons. Stitched using tacketing.
This is an A5 journal made with 110gsm weight art paper. The cover is a light weight cream leather, reinforced on the spine with a stiff tan leather. It is sewn with a beige linen thread and secured using chocolate coloured, leather buttons. Stitched using a long and chain stitch combination.
This one is the closest I've done to a total reproduction of an original item.
A6 Dark Olive and Tan Blank Journal made with 135gsm art paper, dark olive leather cover and tan leather detail. Sewn with natural waxed linen. Closure is leather thong tied via slot to cover.
A6 Cream and Tan Blank Journal made with 110gsm art paper, dark cream leather cover and tan leather detail. Sewn with natural waxed linen. Closure is leather thong tied via bone button. Medieval limp binding technique.
This is a very pale pink leather, sewn with ivory linen thread.
The plum coloured leather is sewn with a lavender Irish waxed linen thread. It's made with 135gsm weight art paper.
I made this journal over the weekend. It took me a while to work out how to do the chain stitch at the top and bottom. There were lots of explanations of Coptic stitch and link stitch but they don't work with this sort of binding.
The butter coloured leather is very thick but extremely supple. I love just holding this one. It's made with 135gsm weight art paper and sewn with butterscotch colour Irish waxed linen thread. I kept the uneven edge of the leather for form the front edge of the over flap on the front.
I found this in an antique shop and it become my first official Steampunk accessory.
I've finally done some more embroidery. This is a Masters device for the WCOB banner, about 14 hrs work.
This is my first proper bookbinding effort. The leather is a deep plum colour, with olive buff leather 2" squares on the side, sewn with pink 18/3 linen thread. The journal is A5 size (15cmx21cm or 8 1/4"x6") with 110 gsm sketch paper pages.
It is based on medieval limp binding techniques. This type of binding (limp, not my specific pattern) was the most common form of binding found in medieval and early modern archives. However, because it lack the sexiness of the leather tooled and gem encrusted bindings, very little work has been done on this type of binding system.
I am going to use this a sketchbook for more book designs.
I did learn a few things, including that my quires (sets of pages) were spaced too far apart. This does have benefit, as the pages lay very flat and I can paste in all sorts of things and have plenty of room for the book to expand without breaking.
I made some basic pamphlet stitched note books to give to my Baron and Baroness to use for largess. Made with a variety of leathers and suedes sewn using linen thread. I've tried to make them all a bit different by changing the strap connection.
It was like Christmas today at the Post Office! I got a book on heraldry, a new wrap skirt and some bookbinding supplies.
The colourful threads are 30/3 linen thread for the binding. I was worried they wouldn't be strong enough, so I've ordered the same colours in 18/3 as well. I'm sure I'll find a use for it!
The book is "Bookbinding - Limp Bindings from Talinn". It has some modern repros of various medieval bindings held in Estonia. Can't wait to get started.
The final two spools are some of the limited edition Gilt Sylke Twist. It's alot finer than I expected. But that is OK.
