Poor Man’s Plough
Finished the year with a pair of small notebooks. I backed the cover fabric with rice paper and was careful to keep the non-stretchy dimension of the fabric running in the same direction as the paper grain. The backing turned…
A Noble Spirit Embiggens the Smallest Man
I wanted to try making my own 8.5×11 notebook for work and finished with a slightly flawed outcome. It may not be perfect, but it has heart. The big lesson here is you can get away with things on a…
Another Book
A small case-bound notebook, around 120 pages, covered with bookcloth I made over the holidays. Getting the pattern to align properly on the spine was a headache, but worth it. It gives a very crisp result. Unfortunatley, much of the…
Handmade Notebooks
Here are two notebooks I made last year. They turned out to be surprisingly durable. The discoloration on the blue one is from living several months at the bottom of a bag. They are coveted with paper backed silk, which a…