... Homemade Journal ... 2016

[pen2paper]

About to dash to work, it’s a joy to see your beautiful work!
Glad you’ve persisted, & It’s just plain good to see evidence you’re enduring through current times.

Your ongoing personal shared journey has included kindness extended to friends globally.
Hoping your family is well & enduring too.

[mhguda]

About to dash to work, it’s a joy to see your beautiful work!

Glad you’ve persisted, & It’s just plain good to see evidence you’re enduring through current times.

Your ongoing personal shared journey has included kindness extended to friends globally.

Hoping your family is well & enduring too.

I'll join my well-wishes to these. (but you know that).

[TMLee]

Hmmm ... 🤔

 

Few days ago, i noticed that my old pics no longer have that warning label by Pbucket...

 

Even in my old original superlong thread ...

 

I dont know why but i am not complaining ...

 

🙂

[TMLee]

JOURNAL 119C GEMATEX - DARK OLIVE GREEN - Connaught Drive, Singapore

 

Rare picture of Connaught Drive in the early days of Singapore

 

 

Front

 

 

Created a double bevel to give more protection to the picture.

 

 

 

Rear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MELLOTEX 100g Brilliant White, Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

Edited October 12, 2020 by TMLee

[TMLee]

JOURNAL 121C GEMATEX - INDIAN RED - St Andrews Cathedral , Singapore

 

 

Also another familiar landmark of Singapore , still standing ...

beautiful, stately ...

 

 

 

Front

 

 

Rear

 

 

Matching Maroon Elastic book bands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full spread

 

 

 

 

Matching flyleaves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MELLOTEX 100g Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures , 5 Folios

Total 140 writing pages

Edited October 12, 2020 by TMLee

[TMLee]

JOURNAL 269 "Sumi 60"

 

This is a journal that is covered in hand- marbled paper , done by a friend ....

 

Its done using ZIG Kuretake Sumi ink . an ink commonly used for inking comics.

 

It looked interesting, like a contour map ...

 

I decided to add a little interest by using blue as flyleaves ...

 

 

 

Front

 

 

Rear

 

 

Decided to continue the covering onto the spine,

cutting out strips to glue onto the Signatures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full spread

 

 

 

With the matching flyleaves in view

 

 

Matching flyleaves

I decided to leave out the elastic band to keep the journal slim and compact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MELLOTEX 100g Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures , 4 Folios each

112 writing pages

 

 

 

 

 

[TMLee]

Beautiful washi papers ...

 

The four seasons ...

 

 

 

Figuring out the spine accent ...

 

 

 

Exploring paper and bookcloth to get the exact shade ...

 

 

 

 

Stunning

 

 

 

 

I decided to go for paper that I could find that was the exact shade ...

All paper , except the green one - which is bookcloth ...

 

 

Hopefully a better rendition of the actual colour .

Light from a different angle , cutting out specular refelctions ...

 

 

This one is most visually attractive - autumn ...

Edited October 12, 2020 by TMLee

[TMLee]

There goes my Pbucket photos again  .....

 

Sigh ....

 

😢

[TMLee]

On 1/7/2019 at 10:23 AM, TMLee said:

Found this fabric print ...

 

its cotton duck ...

heavier weave...

tends to fray easily when cut.

 

so I used Heat n Bond - Ultra hold

 

 

Ironing on the adhesive ...

 

 

This tracing paper is kind of thickish ...

 

 

 

Trimmed away all the excess edges

bummer ... have to use a flat base iron - one with no steam holes etc

The HeatnBond is so effective that holes don't get melted down nicely to adhere flat onto the tracing paper

 

 

the right side up ..

quite a cute print.

how many animals can you spot ?

 

 

cut and mounted onto large A5 coverboards.

This DIY bookcloth is thickish due to the fabric density. ...

quite a challenge to do the foldovers...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOURNAL 277 JUNGLE MENAGERIE B+W

 

A5 size

 

 

Light Grey elastic bookbands to blend in with the main hue of the fabric covers

 

 

Chose Mango coloured threads to be cheery ...

Matching Mango ribbon pagemarker

 

 

 

see if you can spot the animals.

many are subtly hidden 😀

 

 

Matching mango flyleaves

 

 

 

 

Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

 

 

[TMLee]

JOURNAL 259C WASHI  BLOOMS

 

In this variant, entire cover was wrapped with this washi paper.

Good call by the Owner. 👍

 

 

Back

 

 

Chose maroon bands

 

 

Chose green threads and flyleaves and ribbon pagemarker

 

 

 

 

Stunning print

 

 

Green flyleaves

 

 

Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

Beautiful prints ...

 

 

 

[TMLee]

JOURNAL 272 - ABORIBUS

 

A5 size

 

 

 

Rear

 

 

Black bands

 

 

Chose blood red threads , ribbon, flyleaves ... to match the spots of red on the washi print ...

 

 

 

 

 

Full spread ...

I think I shall do another variant without the bookcloth spine accent ... The washi design is beautiful enough on its own ...

 

 

 

Matching deep red flyleaves

 

 

Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

 

Nice print design ... 👍

 

 

A handsome one ...

 

 

[TMLee]

My fave out of the quartet ....

 

JOURNAL 273 WAGARA - LIGHT GREY

 

A5 size

 

This washi paper is unique.

Its like crepe paper.

creases in both vertical and horizontal directions.

The creases are deep , providing deep shadow reliefs.

The silver specks glitter at an angle.

I would think the printing process may be a little complicated.

The motifs are also exactly inside the cherry blossom outlines.

no wonder its more pricey and is so small at A2 size only.

 

 

 

Beautiful ...

 

Front

 

 

Rear

 

decided to do a grey bookcloth spine accent

 

Light grey bookbands to match the overall hues ...

 

 

I went with rust orange accents.

Thread, ribbon and flyleaves ...

 

 

pictured with my old faithful - Pelikan M620 Chicago .

My first real fountain pen.

 

 

Full spread ...

 

Matching orange flyleaves ...

 

 

 

Tracing vellum hinges that let in light into pocket

Anti drop-out flap

Namecard slot...

And Kooya - which remains a faithful , uncomplaining assistant ... 😄

 

 

 

 

Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

The inktest page in every of my journals ...

 

 

Colophon page written with

DIAMINE Ancient Copper

NOODLERS Black

 

Beautiful textures ...

 

 

 

 

[mhguda]

Love the blooms, and the Arboribus... reached out via PM, too.

[TMLee]

173E "Midnight Blue Bookcloth - Sultan Mosque"

 

A5 size

 

 

Bearing an old postcard of a monument here in SGP

 

 

Full spread

 

Used beige cords to contrast with the Midnite Blue bookcloth

 

 

 

Matching deep blue flyleaves

 

 

Matching deep blue bookbands

Made a double rebate to receive the postcard

 

 

Simple straight cords at stations add to the nostalgic look

 

7 Signatures, 4 Folios each

112 writing pages

NATURALIS Absolute White , 120g, Smooth

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TMLee]

YUM !!!

😊

 

.... with  matching spine accents , matching ribbon pagemarkers .....

beautiful washi prints ....

they are more stunning in hand ...

the pics here don't do justice....

 

not spoken for yet.

I think they ought to be kept as a set cos they are depicting the 4 seasons.

PM me if you are interested. 😊

 

All  stitched in TOMOE RIVER  paper .

280 😲 writing pages in each A6 (small) journal.

 

(will feature each one later ...)

 

 

 

 

[mhguda]

PM sent.

[inkandseeds]

@TMLee, thanks beautiful journals.  My wife, who got into bookbinding a few years back, was inspired looking at your journals.

[TMLee]

12 hours ago, mhguda said:

PM sent.

thanks 

[TMLee]

8 hours ago, inkandseeds said:

@TMLee, thanks beautiful journals.  My wife, who got into bookbinding a few years back, was inspired looking at your journals.

thank you for your kind words.

 

pity the pbucket pics in my threads are not readily viewable ... 

there’s a lot of learnable info to glean from there ...

sigh .... 😞

 

 

[TMLee]

This is JOURNAL 266 - Bookcloth (London) - DARK RED

 

This is covered in a bookcloth I bought from Shepherd's Bookbindery in London sometime back.

Its from the Standard range, Dark Red.

Its a very pleasant shade of red.
 

A6 size

 

Front

 

Rear

 

I chose mango coloured cords .

From this angle, the bookblock looks a bit thickish.

Next time I will be using 4 Folios instead of 5 in each signature.

The journal will overall , look and feel better in hand.

 

Pictured with SAILOR 1911 Profit Large - Summer Yellow

Matching mango coloured ribbon pagemarker.

 

 

Becos of each sheet of paper forming each signature, the grids alternate in a certain pattern.

Here again you see the precision of the printed grid on each page of a given sheet of paper in that notebook.

Its so precise !

 

 

Full spread

 

with matching flyleaves in view

 

The deboss to provide some shielding for the cords ...

 

I decided to craft a journal to see how this bookcloth will turn out.

It didn't disappoint. It shows off the shadows of the emboss/deboss nicely.

The texture is also very nice.

 

Matching Mango flyleaves

 

Rear pocket

 

 

Top of the bookblock.

The bookblock is stitched with paper from a KOKUYO Century Edition Record Book which I reviewed here on FPN.

In that notebook, its edges are all printed with a beautiful pattern.

This explains why the pattern appears here in this journal.

 

 

The long edge of the journal also patterned.

 

 

The bottom edge of the journal that is not patterned , becos this is the edge that is torn from the spine of that notebook and hence it is not patterned .

 

 

The light grey grids are so precisely printed on the paper .

Look at how equidistant the print grids stop away from the paper's edge !

Top right corner here

 

Bottom right corner

 

Bottom left corner

 

 

Top Left corner

 

Inktest page

 

Colophon

 

 

Writing paper is :

KOKUYO CYO-BO paper , 100g, smooth, acid free 👍

5mm grid Light Grey

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

The writing paper is superb. 👍👍👍

 

Classic look ...