This box contains everything you need to make your own keepsake leather journal or notebook! You will use traditional bookbinding techniques to construct your journal, folding and sewing to create something both useful and beautiful.

This neatly-packed box contains all the materials and instructions you will need, and the detailed written instructions also include QR code links to short instructional videos on our YouTube channel.

The leather supplied in this kit is a unique piece of upcycled upholstery leather, harvested from an old, unwanted sofa, or a remnant from the upholstery trade. Packaging is recyclable and plastic items in the kit are reusable.

Contents in detail:

1 pre-cut piece of upcycled upholstery leather
1 length of upcycled leather thong
25 pieces of high quality A5 cartridge paper
1 bone folder
1 sewing needle
1 length of waxed bookbinding thread
1 awl
1 pencil
1 ruler
1 piece of polystyrene
1 comprehensive instruction booklet with colour images and links to online demonstration videos.

Please note: this kit contains sharp items and is therefore not suitable for young children.

The final 3 product photographs feature the finished journal that can be made from the kit. The finished article is not supplied with the kit!

This kit was prepared by hand in our small bindery here in rural Lincolnshire. Based in the old Victorian village school, Old School Crafts endeavour to produce a range of beautiful and useful items in the most traditional ways.

Delivery by Royal Mail, currently to UK (excluding NI) only.