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Bind your own leather travel journal
The same detailed, photo-by-photo tutorial we normally sell, now free, so you can see exactly how we teach before picking up the rest of the collection.
One-time free download. Occasional bookbinding tips after, unsubscribe anytime.
11-year legacy
17 tutorials published
Students worldwide
What you’ll learn
- How to cut and fold signatures for a travel-friendly journal
- Binding pages into a leather cover, step by step, in photos
- Working with leather cord and closures that hold up on the road
- A technique you can reuse to rebind the journal with fresh pages later
★★★★★
“This is a detailed and well-written tutorial. In addition, when I reached out with questions, I was helped without hesitation!”
Denise F., on one of our binding tutorials
Ready for more?
Loved working with leather? The Ultimate Bookbinding and Papermaking Tutorials Pack takes you further still: 16 bookbinding techniques plus papermaking by hand, covering Alpha, Cross Stitch, Double Cross Stitch, Daisy Runner, Midori, Minimalist Leather, Long Stitch and its variations, Coptic Stitch, Coptic Weave, Photo Album Binding, Exposed-Spine Binding, Sewn Boards Binding, and Papermaking by Hand — all in one collection.
