Making A Leather Bound Journal

Just use a sturdier leather if you make it way bigger and you may want to make more holes for stitching in each booklet like instead of 4 may be 6 depending on how much taller the pages are going to be.

Making a leather bound journal.

Link to matt karl s first attempts at journal making. I show you the process that i go through to make a complete leather journal. Love the rough edges paper and rustic styling of these books. In this tutorial i will show you how to make a pocket sized leather bound journal complete with decorative inner lining to personalise it to your own tastes.

The stitching techniques used are long stitching. The inspiration for this project came from the huge waste of paper at my office. I made this journal for about 6 including the leather and the awl which i got from amazon so there s no excuse not to give this a try. I have been wanting to make a leather journal just like this one.

There are certain processes our system goes through that result in printing off pieces of paper with only a small amount of useless text at the top. I ve made ones simply by covering cheap composition notebooks with fabric book cover style using paint pens to draw cool designs on the cover plastering with stickers stenciling my initials and even pressing dried and pressed flowers into the inside cover for a really unique flair.