This is a Wedding guest book - Customized photo album that I called "SELKIE" because its nostalgic appearance like north coast. Handmade in a gorgeous dark turquoise skin, with copper tones, the leather is carefully dyed and aged to seems a vintage piece.
MADE TO ORDER ITEM. Time to make it: about 15 bussiness days. (2-3 weeks to be ready for shipment)
**Please, contact me before purchase if you need your book sooner**
The beautiful leather cover is decorated with some blind tooled designs, handmade with bookbinding brass tools. The names and some designs are tooled in silver/copper tones, too.
The album is stitched with a copper linen thread, and the closure is made with a handmade leather button, aged, and a leather tie in cream tones.
♠ ♠ The size is approximately (inside) 9" x 12" (24 cm x 31 cm) in cardboard.
The size with paper is: 10" X 14" (25 X 36 cm.)
♠ ♠ It boasts 60 pages (one side; 120 two sides) of a good quality unlined 250 g cardboard (you can choose between cream or black cardboard). It has FSC warranty and acid free.
With paper, you'll have 190 pages-380 sides of cream/ivory colour unlined 100 g laid paper, which has the look and feel of handmade paper. With handtorn edges. It has FSC warranty and Acid Free.
The book also has endleaves in a beautiful decorative paper.
♠ ♠ You can choose with MATERIAL:
A black cardboard or a cream cardboard. You also can choose the paper option, to use it as a journal.
♠ ♠ CUSTOM:
You can customize the front cover, like you see on the pictures, with one or two names and/or a date (such as a wedding), or a quote (like a title). If you prefer not to customize the cover, I'll repeat the back designs on the front.
The engraving of one name-initials and date is free. More engravings have extra cost as you can see into "Customization" list.
Let me a message with the text to engrave on the cover: during checkout in the "message to seller box", or if you prefer a conversation into Etsy or an email to codiceeremita [!at] gmail.com).
♠ ♠ FREE: Each book is shipped with a beautiful packaging for GIFT.
KNOWING MORE...
This binding is a recreation of the middle age bindings used to archiving the manuscripts. The stitching is visible on the spine.
...Where do you preserve your best memories? ♥
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