{"id":264,"date":"2009-07-31T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2016-07-22T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T23:21:15","slug":"leather-pocket-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/leather-pocket-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather Longstitch Pocket Journal Production Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

This spring someone gave me a book of leather samples – I’m not sure where they are from, maybe an upholsterer – but they came in two shades of brown and a beautiful bright red. I had four peices total, of really nice quality fairly thick leather, and I was trying to think of what I could make with them.<\/p>\n

I had been practicing my longstitch from Keith Smith’s Non-Adhesive Bindings Vol. 1<\/a> (a really great resource) and thought that if I cut the leather in half vertically I could make some great pocket sized leather journals.<\/p>\n

I filled the journals with Frankfurt Zerkall <\/a>paper, a mixture of cotton and high alpha cellulose paper with a deckled edge. It has a nice sort of rough feel, and a soft creamy white color. I tore the paper by hand to keep the deckled look. Interleaved in the pages are pieces of joss paper<\/a>, neat looking fake money from China, which is burned during funerals to give the spirit of the deceased money for the afterlife.<\/p>\n

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