Anyone remember my old black A4 notebook? It was my last work that had it pages glued and normally it would just lie on a shelf as a memento, but as the cover was unfinished and there were still quite some clean pages in it...

I'm remaking it~!

I added a few new pages, sew 'em in a coptic-like style, and reapplied the leathers on a new cardboard base.
And now I'm preparing the leather covers, starting with the backcover.
Basically it goes like that:
- I mark the lines with a watercolour pencil
- then I use the backside of a scalpel's blade, heated in a oillamp's fire to 'draw' the lines permanently into leather; it takes a few sessions to achieve that
- later I clean the watercolours with a damp piece of cloth and apply finishing touches and such

Next part whenever I get time to do it.