In this tutorial i will show you how to make a pocket sized leather bound journal complete with decorative inner lining to personalise it to your own tastes.
Making a leather bound journal.
Thanks so much for the excellent instructions.
I ve made ones simply by covering cheap composition notebooks with fabric book cover style using paint pens to draw cool designs on the cover plastering with stickers stenciling my initials and even pressing dried and pressed flowers into the inside cover for a really unique flair.
I have been wanting to make a leather journal just like this one.
Hi the journal it can be as big as you want using the same steps.
The inspiration for this project came from the huge waste of paper at my office.
Just use a sturdier leather if you make it way bigger and you may want to make more holes for stitching in each booklet like instead of 4 may be 6 depending on how much taller the pages are going to be.
The stitching techniques used are long stitching.
Love the rough edges paper and rustic styling of these books.
Link to matt karl s first attempts at journal making.
I made this journal for about 6 including the leather and the awl which i got from amazon so there s no excuse not to give this a try.