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About to dash to work, it’s a joy to see your beautiful work!
Glad you’ve persisted, & It’s just plain good to see evidence you’re enduring through current times.

Your ongoing personal shared journey has included kindness extended to friends globally.
Hoping your family is well & enduring too.

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About to dash to work, it’s a joy to see your beautiful work!

Glad you’ve persisted, & It’s just plain good to see evidence you’re enduring through current times.

Your ongoing personal shared journey has included kindness extended to friends globally.

Hoping your family is well & enduring too.

I'll join my well-wishes to these. (but you know that).

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  • 3 months later...

Hmmm ... 🤔

 

Few days ago, i noticed that my old pics no longer have that warning label by Pbucket...

 

Even in my old original superlong thread ...

 

I dont know why but i am not complaining ...

 

🙂

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JOURNAL 119C GEMATEX - DARK OLIVE GREEN - Connaught Drive, Singapore

 

Rare picture of Connaught Drive in the early days of Singapore

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Front

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Created a double bevel to give more protection to the picture.

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Rear

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MELLOTEX 100g Brilliant White, Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

Edited by TMLee

... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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JOURNAL 121C GEMATEX - INDIAN RED - St Andrews Cathedral , Singapore

 

 

Also another familiar landmark of Singapore , still standing ...

beautiful, stately ...

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Front

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Rear

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Matching Maroon Elastic book bands

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Full spread

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Matching flyleaves

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MELLOTEX 100g Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures , 5 Folios

Total 140 writing pages

Edited by TMLee

... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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JOURNAL 269 "Sumi 60"

 

This is a journal that is covered in hand- marbled paper , done by a friend ....

 

Its done using ZIG Kuretake Sumi ink . an ink commonly used for inking comics.

 

It looked interesting, like a contour map ...

 

I decided to add a little interest by using blue as flyleaves ...

 

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Front

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Rear

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Decided to continue the covering onto the spine,

cutting out strips to glue onto the Signatures

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Full spread

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With the matching flyleaves in view

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Matching flyleaves

I decided to leave out the elastic band to keep the journal slim and compact.

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MELLOTEX 100g Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures , 4 Folios each

112 writing pages

 

 

 

 

 

... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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Beautiful washi papers ...

 

The four seasons ...

 

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Figuring out the spine accent ...

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Exploring paper and bookcloth to get the exact shade ...

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Stunning

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I decided to go for paper that I could find that was the exact shade ...

All paper , except the green one - which is bookcloth ...

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Hopefully a better rendition of the actual colour .

Light from a different angle , cutting out specular refelctions ...

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This one is most visually attractive - autumn ...

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On 1/7/2019 at 10:23 AM, TMLee said:

Found this fabric print ...

 

its cotton duck ...

heavier weave...

tends to fray easily when cut.

 

so I used Heat n Bond - Ultra hold

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Ironing on the adhesive ...

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This tracing paper is kind of thickish ...

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Trimmed away all the excess edges

bummer ... have to use a flat base iron - one with no steam holes etc

The HeatnBond is so effective that holes don't get melted down nicely to adhere flat onto the tracing paper :(

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the right side up ..

quite a cute print.

how many animals can you spot ?

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cut and mounted onto large A5 coverboards.

This DIY bookcloth is thickish due to the fabric density. ...

quite a challenge to do the foldovers...

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JOURNAL 277 JUNGLE MENAGERIE B+W

 

A5 size

 

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Light Grey elastic bookbands to blend in with the main hue of the fabric covers

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Chose Mango coloured threads to be cheery ...

Matching Mango ribbon pagemarker

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see if you can spot the animals.

many are subtly hidden 😀

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Matching mango flyleaves

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Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

 

 

... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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JOURNAL 259C WASHI  BLOOMS

 

In this variant, entire cover was wrapped with this washi paper.

Good call by the Owner. 👍

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Back

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Chose maroon bands

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Chose green threads and flyleaves and ribbon pagemarker

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Stunning print

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Green flyleaves

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Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

Beautiful prints ...

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JOURNAL 272 - ABORIBUS

 

A5 size

 

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Rear

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Black bands

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Chose blood red threads , ribbon, flyleaves ... to match the spots of red on the washi print ...

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Full spread ...

I think I shall do another variant without the bookcloth spine accent ... The washi design is beautiful enough on its own ...

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Matching deep red flyleaves

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Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

 

Nice print design ... 👍

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A handsome one ...

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... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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My fave out of the quartet ....

 

JOURNAL 273 WAGARA - LIGHT GREY

 

A5 size

 

This washi paper is unique.

Its like crepe paper.

creases in both vertical and horizontal directions.

The creases are deep , providing deep shadow reliefs.

The silver specks glitter at an angle.

I would think the printing process may be a little complicated.

The motifs are also exactly inside the cherry blossom outlines.

no wonder its more pricey and is so small at A2 size only.

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Beautiful ...

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Front

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Rear

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decided to do a grey bookcloth spine accent

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Light grey bookbands to match the overall hues ...

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I went with rust orange accents.

Thread, ribbon and flyleaves ...

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pictured with my old faithful - Pelikan M620 Chicago .

My first real fountain pen.

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Full spread ...

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Matching orange flyleaves ...

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Tracing vellum hinges that let in light into pocket

Anti drop-out flap

Namecard slot...

And Kooya - which remains a faithful , uncomplaining assistant ... 😄

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Writing paper is MELLOTEX 100g, Brilliant White , Smooth

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

The inktest page in every of my journals ...

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Colophon page written with

DIAMINE Ancient Copper

NOODLERS Black

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Beautiful textures ...

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... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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Love the blooms, and the Arboribus... reached out via PM, too.

a fountain pen is physics in action... Proud member of the SuperPinks

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173E "Midnight Blue Bookcloth - Sultan Mosque"

 

A5 size

 

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Bearing an old postcard of a monument here in SGP

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Full spread

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Used beige cords to contrast with the Midnite Blue bookcloth

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Matching deep blue flyleaves

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Matching deep blue bookbands

Made a double rebate to receive the postcard

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Simple straight cords at stations add to the nostalgic look

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7 Signatures, 4 Folios each

112 writing pages

NATURALIS Absolute White , 120g, Smooth

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... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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YUM !!!

😊

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.... with  matching spine accents , matching ribbon pagemarkers .....

beautiful washi prints ....

they are more stunning in hand ...

the pics here don't do justice....

 

not spoken for yet.

I think they ought to be kept as a set cos they are depicting the 4 seasons.

PM me if you are interested. 😊

 

All  stitched in TOMOE RIVER  paper .

280 😲 writing pages in each A6 (small) journal.

 

(will feature each one later ...)

 

 

 

 

... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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@TMLee, thanks beautiful journals.  My wife, who got into bookbinding a few years back, was inspired looking at your journals.

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8 hours ago, inkandseeds said:

@TMLee, thanks beautiful journals.  My wife, who got into bookbinding a few years back, was inspired looking at your journals.


thank you for your kind words.

 

pity the pbucket pics in my threads are not readily viewable ... 

there’s a lot of learnable info to glean from there ...

sigh .... 😞

 

 

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This is JOURNAL 266 - Bookcloth (London) - DARK RED

 

This is covered in a bookcloth I bought from Shepherd's Bookbindery in London sometime back.

Its from the Standard range, Dark Red.

Its a very pleasant shade of red.
 

A6 size

 

Front

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Rear

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I chose mango coloured cords .

From this angle, the bookblock looks a bit thickish.

Next time I will be using 4 Folios instead of 5 in each signature.

The journal will overall , look and feel better in hand.

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Pictured with SAILOR 1911 Profit Large - Summer Yellow

Matching mango coloured ribbon pagemarker.

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Becos of each sheet of paper forming each signature, the grids alternate in a certain pattern.

Here again you see the precision of the printed grid on each page of a given sheet of paper in that notebook.

Its so precise !

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Full spread

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with matching flyleaves in view

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The deboss to provide some shielding for the cords ...

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I decided to craft a journal to see how this bookcloth will turn out.

It didn't disappoint. It shows off the shadows of the emboss/deboss nicely.

The texture is also very nice.

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Matching Mango flyleaves

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Rear pocket

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Top of the bookblock.

The bookblock is stitched with paper from a KOKUYO Century Edition Record Book which I reviewed here on FPN.

In that notebook, its edges are all printed with a beautiful pattern.

This explains why the pattern appears here in this journal.

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The long edge of the journal also patterned.

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The bottom edge of the journal that is not patterned , becos this is the edge that is torn from the spine of that notebook and hence it is not patterned .

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The light grey grids are so precisely printed on the paper .

Look at how equidistant the print grids stop away from the paper's edge !

Top right corner here

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Bottom right corner

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Bottom left corner

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Top Left corner

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Inktest page

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Colophon

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Writing paper is :

KOKUYO CYO-BO paper , 100g, smooth, acid free 👍

5mm grid Light Grey

7 Signatures, 5 Folios each

Total 140 writing pages

 

The writing paper is superb. 👍👍👍

 

Classic look ...

 

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... 671 crafted ... one at a time ... ☺️

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      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
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