Large leather journal, Worn leather, Gold tooled decoration. The Old Book

This old looking journal is made of a worn piece of leather from an old handbag. It is vegetable tanned and shows the authentic marks of the raw cow hide. It has a dark brown red color and various marks prevenient from the manufacturing process and from the wear. It has the charm of a book with history. The decoration of the covers was kept to a minimum to allow the character and the passage through time of this piece to show. Contrasting, the spine was decorated with detailed foil tooling in the old style, and aged to suit the rest of this notebook.

The book measures 10.2 x 7.3 inches (26 x 18.5 cm). It has 124 pages (248 sides) of Favini Laguna artist paper with parchment finish. This paper is acid free, hand-torn, has 180 gsm and will work for writing and sketching in any media, even watercolor.

The endpapers are made of hand marbled paper with brown, orange, grey and silver veins. The headbands were sewn by hand with brown and gold threads. 

This journal has a lot of character. It would fit perfectly in your collection of antique books or your shabby chic interior. I hope you will enjoy!