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Mini-notebook - 7.5 x 5.5 cm, French artpaper (90g\cm3) sewn and dyed by hand, antique leather, endbands woven by hand, endpapers made from real 1898 Imperial Russia ruble banknotes, spine decorated with a piece of one of the banknotes.This piece took a while to finish - making endbands takes quite some time and patience (at least for me), not to mention that I had to actually CUT 2 banknotes from my collection... Though I realise that they were tattered & generally in bad condition and now they will live on as something new...still, feels wrong.
Anyway, questions? Comments? I may be horrible in replying to those but I love reading 'em
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Comments: 56
Oh this is beautiful... I would never want to write in it.
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He is beautiful! Tell me where you got that book. Do I need to know!
I love old things, and that's too perfect!
Give it to me? : 3
I loved ~ ~ ~ ~
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The banknotes work perfectly with the aged cover and pages. Really nice and snugly fit together!
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It's really beautiful. I love the antique feel it has, and using the banknotes really enhances this. I really like the title on the spine, and the way the raised cords taper down to the cover.
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NICE! I like the pop color (blue) in the endband. Gives it the 16th century feel which matches the cord that comes to a point on either side.
~Cheers
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Why thank you 
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This work is featured in the Artisan Crafts ABC as part of ^projecteducate .
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Why thank you so much for the feature~! I'm more than happy to see that my works are of use to someone~!
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Wow, how long did this take? Love the whole look and feel of it!
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Took more than it should 'cause I'm lazy :3 Basically a solid evening for the paper (dying & drying it), a couple hours for cutting & sewing it later, 2 to 3 hrs to make & glue the endbands plus about an hour to add cardboard covers. Then a few more hours for the leathers & lock and the last hour was for the old banknotes & finishing touches.
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...Uh-oh... You know my secret then? DAMN YOU, TIME POLICE PEOPLE, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL, YOU WILL NEVER GET MEEEEEE *shoots @you from a K98 Mauser rifle*
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Waaaaaaah! *runs around in terror* \o/ I promise not to teeeeeeeell!
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Awwwwwwwwww... of course you won't *pat pat pat*
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...because you'll be taking my tongue?
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.......I was thinking more about nailing 8-inch hobnails into your skull and walling you up some old mausoleum so that no one ever finds you...
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Oh, well, umm... I can't say I'm liking the sound of that very much... any way I could make you reconsider?
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Well, if you still have your kidne.... oh wait, no you don't.
Hmm... I dunno, try something~?
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Well, getcherass to messenger! I'm not posting Chytits here. I don't have a deathwish. Right now anyway.
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Very steampunk. Really like the way the cords go into the board. Like the headbands (linen thread? And it looks like you took the cores into the boards as well?). Really sharp looking piece.
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Aaand gotta admit to something -> spine's a fake, just like quite some 19th century books it's only a decoration. I stopped using the proper medieval sewing methods after a while (and after 2 notebooks, A4 and A5 sewn on thick linen cords & with leather handwoven endbands) as 1. takes quite a while to make and 2. ( real issue) no one ever saw the difference and everyone just pointed out that I'm an idiot as you can get better stuff in shops - yep, they meant the cast-in-plastic covers and whatnot.
...still, the book opens neatly and seems to 'work' properly as a mini-address\notebook.
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I use mostly silk for headbands, and I sort of like what happens to untreated linen over time. So long as the core is stable, it should hold up fine (you can protect it further by working the leather over it as well).
The spine still looks great, and faking cords is a fine 19th century practice.
And everyone's mistaken. You just can't notice the difference for a few decades (and in a century or two, those cheapo books will be dust while yours will still have the cover boards attached, protecting the textblock).
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how did you learned to make endbands? I wished to learn that too. Awsome work.
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The weird way - I gathered every bit of a reference photo I could lay my hands on, the best being photos of cut up or partially destroyed medieval codex, manuscripts or early prints and slowly (and with a lot of pain) I managed to think out some more or less imperfect way of crafting those.
Friendly advice - google image, though a good image finder, gives a LOT of unsafe and virus ridden sites. I was really surprised just how many PC viruses could one find on library\university\museum webpages.
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...heh, more comments like that and I'll end up cutting up my old banknote collection xD
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*chews on the book*
Hmm... Well, I gotta say I had better. Personally I suggest cook-books, as they usually have all sorts of yummy food stains or old sugary bits in them.
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hahahahahah XD ahh you made me laugh there.
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...hey, your avatar made me hungry, so I guess we're even now xD
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Hmmm yes thats what I was thinking too. Some sort of lacquer or transparent glue..?
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Great... I recognized the banknotes before I read the description 
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Right now I'm trying to think of a way to install old coins into notebooks without damaging them too much - like, hot-glue or something, I guess nailing them would be way too crude.
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