Tea Dyed and Ecoprint Inset 6×8 A5 Journal

Description

Explore your ideas within the pages of this beautiful, one of a kind recycled and textured paper journal. This book is perfect for journaling without the constraints of lines, creating your own diary or planner layouts, or as a scrapbook of travels or personal memories.

This journal features tea dyed paper front and back covers with an inset of ecodyed paper on the front. The spine and papers on the inside of the covers match the ecodyed paper of the inset.

— DETAILS —
– Hardback covered with my hand dyed tea dyed paper and ecoprint paper
– Cover size: 5⅞ x 8⅜ inch or 14.9cm x 21.3cm
– Page size: 5¾ x 8¼ inch or 14.6cm x 21cm
– 72 pages (144 sides)
– 100gsm recycled paper in shade ‘Oat Fleck’, an off-white paper with visible flecks and fibres, made from 40% Recycled PCW, 5% cotton and 55% FSC virgin fibre
– Lay-flat design for comfortable writing

— What is Ecoprinting? —
Ecoprinting, ecodyeing, or botanical printing is a natural dyeing process by which the colours and shapes of leaves are transferred onto paper. Leaves are layered between sheets of paper and boiled for 1 hour, which allows to natural colours in the leaves to dye the paper. I use other natural dyes, such as red cabbage, onion skins, black tea, fruit tea, iron etc. to further colour the paper.
The leaves have all been sourced responsibly from my garden and the local area.
(You can find out more info on my blog: https://bluecedarstudios.com/blog/)

— More about this Binding –
The book has been handbound using the criss cross or Secret/Hidden Belgian binding method, which allows for exposed decorative stitchwork on the outside, a hard spine to protect the paper inside, and opens flat for easy use. The hardcover is made up of three pieces which are then bound together. The cover has been bound with waxed embroidery floss. The inside pages have been bound with white waxed linen thread.