The folks at Kapdaa contacted me from India to offer a sample of a very cool concept: notebooks covered in leftover fabrics from clothing. An offcut is the material that remains after the clothing pattern has been cut out. Often it just goes to waste, but Kapdaa uses these remnants to make attractive cloth-bound journals … Continue reading Review: Kapdaa Offcuts Notebook
A bookbinding studio in New York is offering a class where you can make a pocket notebook, with elastic closure and back pocket. Could be a fun way to spend a few hours! It’s on April 20, 2013. Find out more at Full Tilt Bookbinding Classes.
A while back, I came across this post on how to make a notebook with a chalkboard cover: Chalkboard Notebooks – Honest To Nod. It reminded me that I’d made a similar one myself when I was a kid, back in the late 1970s. To make the notebook below, I asked my father to cut … Continue reading Chalkboard Notebooks
From Jennie, a link to an article with some more great reasons to favor paper over digital note-taking: “The notebook has an immediate tactile advantage over phones: they aren’t connected to the Internet. It’s intimate in a way computers aren’t. A notebook has never interrupted me with a screen that says, “Wuz up?†Notebooks are … Continue reading More Good Stuff from Our Readers
This is a really cool video showing the process of making notebooks out of old record album covers: Via Handmade notebooks made from recycled album covers — Lost At E Minor: For creative people.
Diana at The Sketchbook Challenge has a great video where she talks about different kinds of journals and sketchbooks, which she has filled (and covered) with beautiful work:
Grab a tissue before you click through to this link, because you’re going to drool: Design.Y, Handmade Leather-bound Notebook. I just found Design.Y via the Pencil Talk blog, and I had to sit on my hands to keep myself from immediately clicking the buy button for a few of these VERY expensive notebooks. At a … Continue reading Design.Y Handmade Leather-bound Notebook from Japan
A nicely illustrated tutorial on how to make your own notebooks, inspired by Moleskine cahiers: Read more at Faux Molskine Notebooks – Fine and Feathered.
I was contacted several months ago by Jacob Deatherage, the owner of Ex Libris Anonymous, a small company based in Portland, Oregon who make journals by hand using old recycled books. When I agreed to accept a couple of samples for review, I had no idea I’d get this large batch! First of all, I … Continue reading Review: Ex Libris Anonymous Book Cover Journals
I got an email a few months ago introducing me to these cool notebook necklaces, handmade by Casey at FartsyArts! My name is Casey and I TOO am a lover of notebooks. Mole skin, spiral, sketchbooks, oh my! I probably have too many but there is something so lovely about having blank notebooks around JUST … Continue reading Notebook Necklaces