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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Journals with soft leather covers |
The end of the year seems to encourage me to do a bit of sorting and culling of art resources. In fossicking through one of my cupboards I came across a number of packs of journal blanks - about 30 to be more precise. I also rediscovered a small box of soft leather which had been purchased with covering journals in mind. The blanks are 13cmX9cmX1.5cm. Very good fine and strong cream archival journal paper - some lined and some blank.
So today I decided to get stuck in and make as many as I could. As you can see from the photo at the end of the blog I got 10 done.
A few photos of the process follow.
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Cutting a stash of covers |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Applying leather book binding glue - including glueing the leather thong tie in place |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Plastic sheets to ensure the glue only goes on the cover sheets |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Leather in place ready for the journal to spend some time in the book press |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Out of the book press, trimmed and tied |
The completed 10 look pretty good.
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - A good stack of journals that will fit nicely in a travelling bag |
I will keep going until the stash of journal blanks or the leather runs out.
They look very nice Barry, always a suckered for a nice journal. Hope you and Fiona have a great Christmas.
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