Walt Whitman quote. handbound leather journal or sketchbook | Photo 02

I made this journal/sketchbook in my bookbinding studio in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

I'm doing a series of leather journals with quotes about the moon on the first page (seemed like a good idea, since my business name is Moon Bindery :).

This one has this quote by Walt Whitman :

"Lo! the moon ascending!
Up from the East,
the silvery round moon;
Beautiful over the house-tops,
ghastly, phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon."

The rest of the pages are blank, and are made with hand-torn writing/sketch paper.

I'm interested in pre-industrial bookbinding, and this book is hand-stitched using a design that dates back to the middle ages

For more about my books, and bookbinding in general, check out my blog at moonbindery.blogspot.com