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Handmade Notebooks & Journals

Books and journals bound using vintage maps of wild places. Hand-stitched signatures using artist grade cartridge paper. Found objects to create blueprints, old type blocks to convey a personal message. Marbled papers, traditionally used as end papers make beautiful covers too.

Bookmarks, washer and string pockets complete the detail. Up-scaled, elegant, collectible and useful!


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Hand-stitched

Soft notebooks made with simple stitching using contrasting threads in a range of colours picked from my unique thumbprint logo.
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'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.'
Groucho Marx


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Detail from an Edinburgh journal
FEEDBACK
"Thank you they look stunning. Really lovely."
Helen Wallace, Rower

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Blueprint bound notebook created for a keen gardener
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East Lothian, Scotland
Telephone: +44 07941 728960
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What

• Dog Walk Guides
• Typography
• Bookbinding
• Journals
​• Notebooks
• Blueprints
​• Screen Prints
• Block Prints
• Art & Classes

Payment, Delivery & Sustainability

All parcels dispatched same day (if ordered before noon on a weekday). Royal Mail first-class tracked. Free in UK when spending £50 and over. Payment is secure and via PayPal. For other forms of payment please contact me direct.

All my book-boards are made from recycled materials. Maps, marbled paper bindings are vintage up-cycled. My book-block artists drawing paper is acid free made from FSC sources in a mill 60% powered by Hydro power. All other materials including Kraft papers are recycled.
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