"German Springback" bound with 90(ish) pages, gold edged and round-cornered. (All by hand! No fancy edge-cutters for me. Trusty scalpel and a cotton reel.)
Covered in hand-dyed chamois leather. Yip, that is the soft thin yellow leather you clean your car with.
Hand-embriodered head-bands of gold and green thread. Hand-painted end papers.
Green velvet marker ribbon. Raised circle on the cover, surrounding a knotwork design in gold (yes, I created that too).

12 cms wide
15 cms high
2.5 cms thick

This was an extremely time-consuming and intensive book, not only because of the type of binding, but because I did everything I possibly could do myself.
A Springback tutorial can be found here: [link]
Also, I highly recommend trying out chamois as a covering material. It is soft, supple, cheap, easy to work with, and feels good.

A few tips:

- Wash it really well first. Soak it completely and wash it thoroughly with gentle soap. Rinse well, wring out and hang up to dry out of direct sunlight.


- And, it is easier, when gluing chamois to your book, to lay the glue on the board, not the chamois.

I loved creating this book, it was an absoloute joy. And I'm glad I went for the knotwork on the cover. I taught myself the art years ago, and have gotten away from it lately, so it was good to create that quick knot. I think it is pretty.

And for the curious, my design page for this book: [link]

Oh, also, This type of book is fun to make, and quite easy, but the tutorials I have seen can be unnecessarily confusing. I've been thinking about creating an easier-to-follow tutorial for a book of this type. Let me know if you would be interested in something like that, and if enough people do, I'll put one together.

Lovelove.