Notebooks in leather cases.

A series of 23 books in leather cases. Each pairing are unique one-offs, never to be repeated.

available Sunday 1st December

The books in this series are covered with lino relief printed paper.

Every set of Travellers' Journal is supplied in a protective and resusable hand-printed cotton bag, as shown above.

THE BOOKS

Bound entirely by hand in Scotland, these books are filled with 80 pages of British-made, recycled paper suitable for note taking and drawing in pencil and ink. These are soft bindings, giving them a greater flexibility than hardback bindings, perfect when travelling.

Every aspect of these books are created manually, from the hand printed paper covers to the sewing of the pages.

Like all of our books, even these simple soft bindings lay flat (and beyond), giving you full access to all the papery real estate!

The notebooks are small but very usable and practical in size, easily fitting in the hand.

Size: 4 x 3 inches, 102 x 72 mm, 80 pages.

THE CASES

Handmade in our workshop, these are made from a type of leather which arrives at our place tanned but otherwise undyed and unfinished.

Some of them, like the one above, are printed two and sometimes three times to get a layered, muti coloured and patterned effect. This particular case was printed first with a Japanese kimono pattern in copper before a second print, the blue-grey floral pattern, inspired by an 18th century European pattern was added.

This blue panel was dyed with drawing ink and then letterpress printed on our antique printing press in the same way we print paper. When the ink has dried, the printed panel is placed, print side down, on a shaped steel blade called a die.

The leather panel on the steel die blade is placed under a high-pressure press which cleanly cuts out the shape of the case and four small holes, one hole per outer flap.

The cases are simply folded together like an envelope and held together with a single metal Sam Browne stud.

The cases are made to fit the book as well as other day-to-day essentials you might want to put in them - bank cards, ID, cash and even a small pen. Small enough to be hardly noticable in the pocket, large enough to be useful.

Size: 4⅝ x 3⅜ inches, 118 x 88 mm

MADE ENTIRELY BY HAND IN SCOTLAND

The Travellers's Journals are available to preview until 7pm, Sunday 1st December and will be available to purchase one hour later on the same day from 8pm (UK), 12pm (LA), 3pm (NY).

preview: Travellers' Notebook 06

MADE ENTIRELY BY HAND IN SCOTLAND