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Tin Boys Side Scuttle, a book for me but look

Tin Boys Side Scuttle, a book for me but look

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I often have requests for the biggies (from etsy video - http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/process-new-books-with-old-materials-by-theblackspotbooks-2703/) but I rarely list them. here is a start! It is not nearly as big, but as I now have a boy and another growing, I am trying to be a bit more pragmatic - and have made a smaller and more manageable book to show!

I have just made this new journal for me, so this listing is not for this journal, but for one like it, or even for the size and we can work out details for your particular book...

This book is covered in an antique deer hide (i have some more). One the front cover is a rosette from the 1800s with the face of a little boy in a hat tin-type peering through. The holes are backed with vintage red and white striped fabric that I found at an abandoned house (my favourite!) and I stitched it on with heavy book binding thread!

On the back, through a natural tear in the leather, I put a piece of an olde journal entry form Germany, written in 1915!

This is a hardbound book with acid free book board beneath the leather. Otherwise constructed as usual!

9 1/2 inches high
6 1/2 inches wide
1 3/4 inch spine
142 sheets (282 pages)

the pages are 6x9

Materials: (archival innards, antique & gathered outards)
leather - antique leather
paper - Strathmore drawing, acid-free, hand torn and stitched.
thread and binding tape - linen
headband - found in London, vintage

My books are made using archival insides and antique outsides. Inside you'll find lineless strathmore drawing paper - thick, hand-torn, acid-free pages that work perfectly with ink, pens both thick and superfine, pencil, charcoal, and myriad other mediums. The pages are each hand sewn with archival linen binder's thread. The spine is pressed and glued using ph neutral adhesive and the is then hammered round for a comfortable open and close. The books' covers are made using hand-picked scraps and worn leather from wherever I can find them, cut to fit the appropriate size. The books can be carried daily and beat up. They are quite strong creatures.

I am always interested in trading olde leather toward books! Please contact me if you have some!

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Added on Oct 23, 2009