Handmade Sketchbooks
I handmake my own sketchbooks. I cut the cardboard for the covers, make or repurpose paper to decorate the covers, glue the paper to the covers, and seal them with wax. I punch holes in the completed covers and squeeze a gromet into each hole. I choose the paper and tear them to the correct size. I fold the pages, nest them together, and poke holes along the folded edge to get them ready for binding. Then I bind them all together with an ancient technique called the Coptic stitch.
I love these books. I fill them with personal thoughts and ideas, sketches, inkblot drawings, notes, whatever.
This is the sketchbook that I am currently working in with some of my inkblot drawings:
This is the sketchbook I will be working in after the current one is filled. The cover is made with flora from my property and acrylic inks.
If you are interested in learning to make these sketchbooks, drop me a line!
If you’d like to purchase one I’ve made, you can find them in my shoppe.
