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My portable watercolour sketchbooks are bound in a soft cover made of upcycled leather. Their pages are off white 190gsm Saunders Waterford 100% cotton paper produced by St. Cuthberts Mill in the UK. The books have torn edges with an occasional watermark visible in some pages. Each book in this series has an antiqued metal ring on its back so they can be attached to a cord and connected together or used as a pendant.

See available ones in my bookshoppe: http://hautacrafts.etsy.com

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Last week I finished my biggest #bookbinding project a daily #planner composed by 95 sheets, 380 pages, and 12 signatures. The planner was designed using #scribus, and an extension I wrote in #python, to generate the whole planner starting from a single page template. Full story on my free #kofi post: https://ko-fi.com/post/The-biggest-bookbinding-project-so-far-Z8Z41PWZHK
The extension is on #codeberg here: https://codeberg.org/dreamos82/scribus_script
Below some pictures of the new planner! #hardcover #handmade #bookbinder #programming #craft #artandcraft

Planner, with red bookcloth cover. Seen from the spine. The bookmark on top is green. Thickness of spine is ~2.5cm

Inside of a planner. Two example pages. The month, day, and day of week are on the top left (for left pages) right (for right pages). Then the rest of page is lines

Endpages of the planner, contains som old-style prints of letter, with different fonts, mostly italic/cursive, containing also draft of objects.

The planner view from the front cover, all red, with the green bookmark visible from the bottom left

So my sale is finally over, I made less than $20 *cries. Plus, my tabling event this coming weekend fell through so there's also that bad news. BUT! Regardless of how it's going, I'm still trying to remain positive. In the meantime, here's one of my latest bookbinds!

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A green handmade journal with a black spine and green eucalyptus leaves for the cover. the book is laying on it's side to show off the intricate sewing latticework on the exposed spine used to sew all the pages together.

Wood, resin and moss inspired custom pocketbook 🌿

Filled with black, white AND brown watercolor paper. More bark cover journals are finally coming next month! 🌲
#mastoart #art #bookbinding #bookbinder #handmade #journal #book #nature #natureart #forest #metsä #käsintehty #kirjansidonta #pienyrittäjä

A small handmade journal with a mossy dark green and brown wood bark painting as a cover. The book has a red resin looking rock on the cover as well. The book is placed on a dark wooden surface and it's surrounded by plants and nettles. Another bigger journal, some wood bark and a letter opener sword are in the background.

The book leaning on some wood bark on its side revealing the hand stitched spine. The pages have been bound with light brown, almost orange thread.

The book open against the same background revealing the thick watercolour paper inside. The stitches are neat and barely noticeable. The edges of the pages are all ripped.

The same book slightly open on its side, revealing that not all pages are white. The book is filled with first black pages, then white and lastly brown watercolour paper. All pages have ripped edges.

Some custom work again. My most recent bookbinding project 🌿
White watercolour paper journal for Hannah ✨
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A handmade journal with a dark green cover and a big green embroidered fern on it the size of the whole front cover. The book is bound with light brown thread and the stitches come through the spine. The book is held shut with a similar shade of light brown leather string that goes around the book twice. The book is placed on a wooden surface and it's leaning on a pile of other handmade books. Some tools and a big fern are on the background

The book held with the spine and the stitching most visible to the camera.

The book is filled with thick white watercolour paper that has torn edges. The brown leather string that holds the book shut has a small old key at the end.

A closer look at the fern embroidery on the book's cover. Above the fern is a small embroidered circle that looks like it's shining some light on the fern leaves.

I’ve just been tired and needed a break. The world feels pretty heavy right now. I still have a lot of ideas, but with everything going on, it’s hard to feel like making art fits into the moment.

I've gone back to bookbinding to help pass time. If anyone is interested in taking them off my hands, feel free to browse the newest section of my Etsy shop for these hand bound books!

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A handbound book with the cover decorate with a orange and green stripe pattern and a white geometric pattern overlaid on top. There is a white elastic band keeping the book closed. The book lays on top of an assortment of random flowers.

A handbound book with the cover decorate with a orange and green stripe pattern and a white geometric pattern overlaid on top. There is a yellow endpaper decorating the back of the book's covers. The pages inside are white. The book lays on top of an assortment of random flowers.

A handbound book with white pages inside. The book lays on top of an assortment of random flowers.

The exposed spine of a handbound book with alternating orange and green braided thread connecting each signature together.

I had the absolute honour of making another custom sketchbook for @lindenshieldarts ✨🌘
I love the mossy green cover with the brown and gold. 🌱
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An a5 sized dark green handmade sketchbook with brown leather clasps and a brown leather patch in the middle. The leather patch has a golden sicle moon and an edelweiss flower button on it.

A closer look at the details on the cover. The golden sicle moon shines when light hits it.

The handmade book photographed from above with its pages pressed shut. Most of the pages are thick black paper with a couple blue and green pages in the end.

A close up of the black hand torn pages with another handmade leather sketchbook with a key in the background.

1870 Venice glued out, rounded and shouldered, in the job backer!

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Before and after images of rodent chewed book board restoration from the 19th-century.

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19th-century book board before restoration

19th-centry book board after restoraiton

Morning is hard.

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Late night Honey Badger Binder action!

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A little photo session fun with Freyja (cat) and Sharon, The Bookbinder's Apprentice!

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Running late today...Sharon, the Bookbinder's Apprentice, continues to punch holes for sewing stations on this music composition journal.

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A Bookbinder's Apprentice punches holes on a music composition journal for sewing stations.

Paper repairs completed...time to put these signatures back together with the rest of the textblock!

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A dateless bullet journal bound with hand-pulled paste paper.

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Hand-bound dateless bullet journal bound with hand-pulled paste paper.

Just one more addition to the BOOKFORGE Etsy shop before bed time. If you have a moment, check it out.

https://thebookforge.etsy.com/listing/1896118779/purple-gold-pocket-sized-blank-notebook

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Just another day at the bookbinder's workbench!

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New book in a bookbinder's backing press, showing rounded and shouldered spine sewn on raised bands (hemp) with linen threads

I'm not depressed. I'm pressed!

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Edward Patrick Kranz, the Honey Badger Binder of BOOKFORGE, pressing a book in a vintage copy press in a humorous black and white image.

Sharon Smith, the Bookbinder's Apprentice here at BOOKFORGE, has completed her first Drumleaf (photobook) style binding using her hand-pulled decorative paste paper from a previous exercise.

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Bookbinder's apprentice shoing off her newly made Drumleaf binding

Sharon Smith, the Bookbinder's Apprentice here at BOOKFORGE, has completed her first Drumleaf (photobook) style binding using her hand-pulled decorative paste paper from a previous exercise.

#bookbinder #apprentice #bookbindersapprentice #BOOKFORGE #bookart #bookarts #bookartist #bookbinding #drumleaf

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