This journal is handmade from vintage buffalo hide and is coloured with a natural Honey Brown dye (derived from tree bark). The cover has a hand-tooled Celtic Druid Oak design, and it contains 100 pages/200 usable sides of plain, unlined 150gsm cartridge art paper.

A special feature of the leather cover is the unusual depth and clarity of the tooling.

The cover is size A5 - 9 x 6 inches (21 x 15cm).

This is a tough and durable book that would make an excellent travelling journal, sketchbook or diary - you could even use it as a photo album or guestbook. The folios of paper are stitched into the leather cover with a traditional 'Italian' stitch - a style of binding that guarantees a long life.

I love working with leather, but for ethical reasons I only use vintage leather for my books- ie leather from working animals that have come to the end of their lives.