I'm slowly making up a Wayne & Bryan Ravenwood journal 'kit'.
So far I have all the pages printed out as A5 and broken into four page signatures. I am currently staining them to make them look all nice and old. I'm giving them a base colour from a wash in a bath of chai tea and coffee grounds, that gives a light yellow colour. Once that's dried I give them a darker colour with Yorkshire tea by stippling the pages with a teabag. I've been doing multiple stippling layers to give an overall mottled appearance.
I've given the 'Atif' letter the same treatment as well as dog-earing it and lightly sanding various creases and the edges with 120 grit sandpaper:
The other thing in the picture is a book plate I plan to put on the inside of the cover.
I'll spare you all a running commentary on staining every page, but I will post some more shots when I start to sew all the signatures and make the text-block and then when I make the covers. I also have a number of inserts to plan and make.
So far I have all the pages printed out as A5 and broken into four page signatures. I am currently staining them to make them look all nice and old. I'm giving them a base colour from a wash in a bath of chai tea and coffee grounds, that gives a light yellow colour. Once that's dried I give them a darker colour with Yorkshire tea by stippling the pages with a teabag. I've been doing multiple stippling layers to give an overall mottled appearance.
I've given the 'Atif' letter the same treatment as well as dog-earing it and lightly sanding various creases and the edges with 120 grit sandpaper:
The other thing in the picture is a book plate I plan to put on the inside of the cover.
I'll spare you all a running commentary on staining every page, but I will post some more shots when I start to sew all the signatures and make the text-block and then when I make the covers. I also have a number of inserts to plan and make.
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