... How To Make Your Own Cahier ...

[TMLee]

Cahier #16 - William Morris "The Owl 1897" - Mango

 

After clamping the corners ...

The bump is alot flatter.

Less obvious.

 

 

 

 

 

Becos of this sequence of trimming away after stitching, the flyleaves can be exactly sized to the covers.

Here you see the flyleaves already glued into position.

The flyleaf is perfectly aligned to the fabric covers.

 

 

 

After glueing the flyleaves.

Its piercing the stations at the head and tail of the Cahier

Here you see the holes freshly pierced at both head and tail of the Cahier.

 

 

 

 

I used matching yellow linen threads by Guttermann to stitch this head and tail.

 

 

This way, the yellow threads appear at the outside of the Cahier

 

 

 

The middle portion has no exposed stitching

 

 

 

 

Front

 

 

Rear

 

 

 

 

 

Mango flyleaves

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the PELIKAN M101N Green Tortoise clipped onto the cover.

 

 

 

 

 

Bendy softcovers

 

 

A small and ultra slim Cahier, about 4mm thick.

yet providing 60 writing pages

Designed to be carried around in your back pocket, purse, handbag, cargo pants pocket.

Bends even as you sit on it (provided the rounded corners are in the correct position.

 

 

 

Colophon

Writing paper is TOMOE RIVER paper, 52g , Cream , supersmooth

15 Folios, 1 Signature

60 writing pages

 

Its pretty much one of a kind .... :bunny01:

 

Edited October 11, 2019 by TMLee

[mhguda]

very very nice... as with all your work.

That is a beautiful print fabric!

[TMLee]

very very nice... as with all your work.

That is a beautiful print fabric!

 

Thank you mhguda

[TMLee]

I found the threads a little too thin....

 

so I decided to take it off ...

 

 

and replace it with a little wider thread ..

This is 0.66mm , lightly waxed.

 

Now with the new thread

 

 

 

 

 

[TMLee]

Beautiful print ....

 

 

 

 

This is the Olive Drab variant ...

 

 

 

Apparently a very high quality smooth thread ...

 

 

Chose a nice olive drab flyleaf. Its textured.

 

alongside the mango variant

 

 

 

 

 

The stitches only appear at the top and bottom on the outside spine...

 

Stitches top

 

stitches bottom

 

 

I used dental floss this time.

To keep the Cahier as flat and thin as possible.

The green threads appear only for a short stretch at the head and tail ...

 

 

 

The bulk of the green stitch knots does contribute to the bulk of the cahier.

The green knots , even though flattened with pliers, keeps the cahier slightly open.

None of this problem for the dental floss at the central part .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice pair ...

 

Writing paper is TOMOE RIVER paper , 52g Cream

15 Folios

1 Signature

Total 60 writing pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WarrenB]

Excellent topic. Those 'William Morris' cahiers in particular are works of art.

 

Coming up to the new year, I'll have a few pages left over in an old bullet journal. I might trim them out and try my hand at this.

[TMLee]

Excellent topic. Those 'William Morris' cahiers in particular are works of art.

 

Coming up to the new year, I'll have a few pages left over in an old bullet journal. I might trim them out and try my hand at this.

Thank you for your kind words ...

 

Yes , his print designs are really beautiful...

the colours all blend very well ...

[TMLee]

Some blank greeting cards are very close to B5 size ...

 

so I got some B5 notebooks , ripped out the good paper and stitch them into these cards...

 

 

 

All are stitched with linen thread by Gutterman ...

Thin enough to not cause bulk in the cahier ...

 

 

Here the B5 sheets forming the bookblock is cut to match the card exactly...

 

Simple stitch with either gridded or unlined paper from DAISO.

Good paper that is ink friendly ...

 

 

Only 10 folios becos the paper is thickish at 80gsm ?

Total 40 writing pages

Edited February 7, 2020 by TMLee

[mhguda]

I love them.

[TMLee]

This is Cahier #45 - "The 12 Disciples"

 

made in Midori TN size large , exact same size as the notebook refills.

 

bound with TR paper , 52g Cream ,  supersmooth

 

Re-purposed a wall calendar that had these beautiful caricatures of the 12 Disciples of Jesus.

 

This small pic on the front cover was just the right size to use as a cover for the cahier.

 

Front and rear covers ...

you can see some discolouration - sun bleached - the sun's rays in our tropical climate here is really harsh.

 

 

The thread - waxed dental floss - runs round the head and tail of the cahier, to give some protection from abrasion cos of the way the Midori TN is designed to carry their innards. 

Dental floss is a good choice becos its very flat

 

 

 

 

BEFORE - the 'fishtail effect '

 

 

Place the cutting mat in the centrespread of the entire notebk and trim off the 'fishtail' .

repeat on the other half that needs to be trimmed off.

 

 

 

AFTER - The 'fishtail effect ' removed.

 

Then punch the corners again to refine it ...

 

 

Unlike my usual exposed-spine journals which benefits from precision at each crafting stage,

here, Its alot easier to trim the notebk to size AFTER completing the stitching.

This way , you wont go crazy and can do this quick, around 20mins. 😄

 

 

Writing paper is TOMOE RIVER paper (old version) , 52g , Cream

16 Folios

Total 64 writing pages (to replicate the Midori TN refills )

 

 

A quick project you can make in about 20mins with materials that are readily available round the house.

 

For refinement, I do clamp my cahiers flat for a few hours after completion.

It really does help to make it stay flattened like a notebk should.

 

For proper tools, ask your wives to source for you tapestry needles (ballpoint needles)  size #24 or #26 I cant remember.

Big eye needles with blunt tips.

😊