Pagan Wicca Book-of-Shadows Grimoire Journal
Binding of Buffalo Hide
Hand-Tooled Sacred PENTACLE
Welcome to WiccaWorld - my eBay store where I aim to supply affordable high quality journals, grimoires, and Books-of-Shadows to the Pagan/Wicca community. My books are handmade, and are produced of renewable and recycled natural materials. Please read my Ethical Production Policy at the foot of this item description.
I designed these journals to serve as a substantial grimoire or book-of-shadows. They are bound in water-buffalo hide. The cover bears a hand-embossed sacred PENTACLE.
The book contains a high quality plain unlined cartridge art paper*.
The listing is for one book, though several are shown in the attached photos.
Size: 10 inches x 7 inches (25 x 17.5cm)
Contains 100 leaves/200+++ pages (in 5 individually sewn folios)
Weight: 750 grams (approximately 1 1/2lb)
Quality: - Paper is 150gsm unlined cartridge paper. It is suitable for drawing and sketching, and for writing with pencil, Biro, gel and fountain pens, and with water-based inks or water colour.
Binding: is 100% genuine water-buffalo hide, stained with a natural dye. The leather is of a heavy quality, and is thick but supple.The binding will NOT crack, tear, or disintegrate (as glued bindings do!). The book will lie flat and remain open at any page you select.
Fastening: is a durable leather tie-strap.
All my journals are entirely handmade, and each piece is unique.
Always happy to combine postage on multiple purchases!
It is my policy to produce books from natural and renewable materials that will have a minimum impact on the environment.
I use exclusively water-buffalo hides, cow hides, and goatskins from mature animals that have come to the end of their working life. No animals are bred and slaughtered solely for the purpose of producing leather for my books.
To tan leather I use a natural tannin wash as an alternative to the highly toxic chromium salts commonly used in tanning. This natural tannin dye occasionally leaves a small residue on the surface of the leather, and some dye may appear on your hands on first handling of a new book. This is entirely harmless, and will cease altogether on further handling when the dye stabilizes. I hope you will agree with me that this is a small price to pay for a method of production that avoids poisoning our environment.
My handmade paper is produced without the use of bleaches and other toxic chemicals commonly associated with paper production.
It is my aim to produce books that meet the needs and wishes of the artists, art students, travelers and writers and poets who commonly purchase my books. For that reason I am always interested to hear your comments, and any suggestions you have for improvements or for new products.