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Flexible leather binding covered with black & red-brown leather embossed with snakeskin texture. The handdyed and waxed cardstock pad decorations on the back are sewn through, not glued on. Closes with a braided cord. 160 pages of recycled paper inside. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com Also for sale in my Etsy shop

Portrait for JKPP. This was a sketch which I intended to paint on, but then didn't. Thread: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215762611080...

After two months of maturing. Also known as рябиновая наливка or rowanberry nalivka

Detail. Acrylics, ink and coloured pencil on plywood, the whole work measures 64 x 42 cm. 2012

Work in progress, acrylics and ink on plywood. 53 x 38 cm. 2012

Work in progress, oil on film faced plywood. 90 x 75 cm. Began painting this in 2008, eh.

Leatherbound journal in fine sepia goatskin dyed with ink, complete with headcaps and handsewn silk headbands. Trimmed and lightly burnt edges. Approx. 250 pages of off-white recycled paper inside. Finished with a gilt text on a tooled black leather plate. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com For sale in my Etsy shop

Leatherbound journal in fine sepia goatskin dyed with ink, complete with headcaps and handsewn silk headbands. Trimmed and lightly burnt edges. Approx. 250 pages of off-white recycled paper inside. Finished with a gilt text on a tooled black leather plate. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com For sale in my Etsy shop

Old sketchbook revisited in new photographs. Covered with handdyed sepia toned Canapetta bookcloth, with a sewn-on vintage prayer card. Headbands handsewn around a hemp core, light sand coloured pastel paper inside, with deckled edges. This book is for sale in my Etsy shop. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

I'd use this paper in every book if only people were not so bored with it already. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

Old sketchbook revisited in new photographs. Covered with handdyed sepia toned Canapetta bookcloth, with a sewn-on vintage prayer card. Headbands handsewn around a hemp core, light sand coloured pastel paper inside, with deckled edges. This book is for sale in my Etsy shop. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

I almost travelled on this once, but it rained in Fort William so I just ate in a restaurant and gtfo. My never-ending chase for the perfect steam train adventure that never reaches its climax.

Huviretki tienpientareelle

Flexible leather binding sewn in a variation of longstitch style with waxed linen thread. Covered with chocolate brown, blind tooled fine goatskin. The cover flap is finished with a sewn-on lighter brown leather plate that features a Labrarodite cabochon. The flap can be secured to the natural smoky shell button with two loops of braided cord. Four matte finish glass beads decorate these cords. Approx. 160 pages of recycled paper inside with foreleaves of pale turquoise parchment paper, matching the stone. Labradorite is a feldspar mineral originating from the Labrador peninsula. They are often pale and milky, sometimes almost colourless but with flashes of bright iridescent blues and greens. (This book is available in my Etsy shop) veterokforbooks.tumblr.com