Love seeing stuff like this. I do my own binding of my journals and sketchbooks. I even do the marbled paper for covers and endpapers. While mine don’t take anywhere near as long to produce, they take way longer to fill up!
JIC you need something beautiful in your day. https://youtube.com/shorts/gX1KqZMojjA?si=6-vhkKA7NzuHJWjy
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Discussion
Would you ever be interested in sharing or selling one?
I’d really like to figure out how to share photos of such things I make here- so far I think my devices are too old for the tech. As for selling them, I did do an experiment on putting some images of them on RedBubble to see if they would work. The quality is so-so for print on demand, but as you’d probably guess, not anywhere near as nice as the real thing. I do have some videos on my YouTube channel- Art By Leigh Murphy that shows some tours of a few of my handmade sketchbooks that I filled up. Ideally I’d like to make limited editions of the books. Each one I completed has a theme. “Acta Hortus” is one that took me 3 years and 398 illustrations to do. I have a video up that shows that one.