Writing Journal ☰06
WRITE YOUR OWN STORY in a beautiful, one-off journal, handmade in Scotland with a unique combination of hand printed paper covers, vellum spines and vellum corners.
Inside are 224 pages of lined/ruled pages made with Italian paper for all types of pens and pencil.
The perfect little book for making notes and recording ideas before they're lost.
Writing Journals offer about as much strength and flexibility as you will ever need thanks to the quality of materials used in creating these. Even with rigorous handling these should withstand day to day use for much longer than it takes to fill them with your writings.
COVER PRINT - Black Flowers on Pink No.101
Made using a print from a short run of nine, this has been printed on handmade antique linen rag from the book Synopsis Criticorum & aliorum, published in the 1660s making it about 360 years old.
This is a handmade, relief printed patterned paper made from two hand carved lino blocks - the flowers in black and the floral pattern in pink.
SPINE - Hand written antique vellum/parchment legal document, circa 1850.
Vellum (aka parchment) is an ancient type of paper-like leather. The forerunner to paper, it was used in ancient times for writing religious texts and the most important books. Indeed, thanks to its properties of longevity and strength, it is still used today in the Houses of Parliament where new and updated laws are written and recorded on it.
Outside of the Houses of Parliament, until the early part of the 20th century it was still used in Britain as a document material for important legal documents such as house deeds, wills and loans which is where this particular piece came from.
Vellum boasts the type of a beautiful warm translucency only found in natural materials. It offers super strength and flexibility - the perfect material for a spine.
CORNERS - Dyed, shocking pink vellum/parchment
As vellum shares similar qualities to paper we often not only print patterns on it, we also treat it with various dyes and other colour treatments.
These corners have been dyed with an alcohol based drawing ink.
These corners not only look great but they offer protection for the most vulnerable part of the book when it's being handled, put on a shelf or being transported around with you in your bag or backpack.
PAPER INSIDE - A creamy-white, smooth, acid-free Italian paper, perfect for inks and pencil.
SIZE - The perfect size for a jacket pocket and not taking up to too much room in a a bag or backpack.
This book measures 6¾ x 5 inches, 170 x 125mm, easy to hold in the hand, big enough to easily write in.
FINISHING - When we've finished putting the book together, there's one final process.
We varnish the paper covers and vellum/parchment spine and corners with a bookbinding juice called glair, not only once but twice!
Glair is a shellac based liquid often used in bookbinding as an adhesive for gold tooling and gilding but in this instance we use it as a varnish. It not only slightly ages the surface, calming down whiteness in new materials and adding a sheen all over but it also adds a little bit of protection to the covering materials during handling and transportation.
- Blank paper pages
- Hand printed paper covers
- Vellum Parchment spine
- Vellum Parchment corners
- Varnished for protection