Day 4/365
This is one of my most favourite projects to date. It’s something I thought about for a long time before making it, mulling over it’s possibilities and the best way to craft it that accurately captured what I had in mind.
It’s a lovely Florentine cover watercolour journal, complete with leather implements holder. I love that the leather wrap around is a layered, pieced-together band, reminiscent of a quilt. You can even see the button holes from the reclaimed leather’s previous life as a garment.
This was a unique, one of a kind project and it sold a long time ago, but I think of it often.
For a few weeks now I’ve been playing around with paper dying using indigo. But before I started using real indigo I did many tests with watercolour paints (indigo-colour, of course) and I wanted to share some of my favourites with you.
The resulting papers are lovely but they just aren’t the same depth and richness of colour as true indigo-dyed papers. I’ll go over some of the things I made with the true indigo dyed papers in a few days. And at some point in the future I’ll do a post about the actual hand-dying process and how messy/fun it really is!!
Sprouts Press 