A Personal Gift That's Bound to Impress!

Want a personal gift for someone special this Christmas?

World Maps Journal in 2 sizes (perfect for travel lovers);  Half Leather journal in black floral - both starting from $105

From the moment they open the black embossed gift box, they will be impressed by what they find.  Each book is crafted individually by hand - each is beautifully unique.  The distinction is in the detail - the hand tooled, fine leather binding, sewn pages and the carefully matched decorative papers.    

Make a gift that is truly impressive with your choice of embossing on the book's cover - a name, a message, their personal mantra or keep it simple with initials.

To help create your perfect gift you can now easily add personalisation to any of our leather bound books at our online shop.   Select the font, colour, position and what you would like embossed - then leave it to us.

Be creative! The ideas on the journals pictured might help to get you started.

If you need help or have any questions you can put it in the comments below or you can send us an online enquiry.

Full Leather Journal - available in 4 colours and 2 sizes; Half Leather Journal in Peacock Design 

Leather Rustic Wrap Journal in 3 colours with initials embossing;  Full Leather Journal in Black

Five Favourites for Stationery Lovers

Love to put pen to paper? Our five favourite stationery picks will make even the shabbiest handwriting look spectacular.

A perfect Christmas gift for lovers of fine stationery, our elegantly boxed sets are sourced from artisan paper and stationery companies from around the globe.  

One:  Gold foiled Peacock design stationery set by Rossi - 100% cotton cream folded cards with matching lined enveopes.

Two: Monogram Boxed Stationery Set by Rossi - 10 folded cream cards featuring gold foiled monogram with matching peacock design lined envelopes

Three: Letterpress Printed Boxed Stationery Set by Rossi - 10 deckled edge correspondence cards with matching letterpress printed lined envelopes. 

Four: Magnolia Boxed Stationery Set by Caskata - 10 printed correspondence cards with envelopes

Five: Birds Nest Boxed Stationery Set by Caskata - 10 printed correspondence cards with envelopes

Find more quality products at our online store 

Have a question or comment?  We'd be happy to hear from you - post them in the comment box below.

INTRODUCING....Automotive Collection

Fine Leather Journals and Albums

It has been a few months since we launched a new collection, but we think this was worth waiting for.

Our new Automotive Collection features stunning Italian vintage printed paper that car enthusiasts everywhere will appreciate.

Leather corners and spine finished with decorative hand tooling

The Italian paper is combined with luxurious chestnut leather and finished with decorative hand tooling.

Choose from blank journals with creamy pages, or photo albums with archival quality dry mount pages. Both available in various sizes and perfect for customising with gold or silver stamping.  

View more of the Automotive Collection or find out about our other collections at our online store.  You can get more information about our personalisation service or view some of our custom binding in our online gallery.

We'd love your feedback so let us know what you think of our new collection.  Post your thoughts in the comments section at the end of this post.

Leather Journals - Experiencing the Handcrafted Book

Our 'in-store' customers often talk about the 'experience' of visiting our store in View Street, Bendigo.  Some love seeing the old tools, some love the leathery smell and pretty much everyone that comes in loves to watch the process of a book being hand crafted or restored.

This experience is a little harder to achieve in the on-line world, but in our attempt to bring to our on-line customers what our View Street visitors talk about, we enlisted the talented team at Archivist Media Films to create this short video.

Feeling inspired?  You might like to come and learn the craft in a Beginner's Bookbinding Workshop or, to purchase a similar personalised leather journal just follow the link!

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Hope you've enjoyed this video.  Please comment!