Complete A4 Bookbinding Kit: Artist’s Watercolour Sketchbook
£85.00
Complete bookbinding kit containing all the tools and sundries you will need to make one exquisite watercolour sketchbook from start to finish.
The carefully selected, quality tools will last years enabling you to create many, many more books. The kit includes a link to our exclusive easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, with over 250 photographs thoroughly detailing every stage.
Even if you have never made a book before, our instructions walk you through the process as confidently as if you were attending your own one-to-one workshop with me!
Due to size and weight limits, I’m unfortunately unable to post this item internationally at present
Introducing our beautiful antique-style, Artist’s Watercolour Book:
Like all artists, I love to acquire and use beautiful media and I designed this book from a soul that savours these small pleasures.
I can picture my favourite artists and illustrators of Yesteryear with this book; artists such as Beatrix Potter, Alfred Munnings, John Tenniel and Eric Ravillious. I can hear the light scuff of a pencil over a page, the musical rattle of a brush washed in a water jar, I can almost taste the delicious colour, skilfully mopped across the paper… Who do you see using it?
Slightly larger than A4 and landscape in format, it is both substantial and elegant. It’s large enough to be inspirational and small enough to be portable, perfect for both the studio and plein air. The finished size is approximately 315mm x 225mm x 20mm.
It has 96 pages of quality, acid-free, 225gsm ‘Not’ finish, Dutch watercolour paper – a surface suitable for all wet and dry media including watercolour, pencil, charcoal, ink, marker, acrylic and oil.
The pages have a deliberate pre-industrial aesthetic, with hand torn edges and sawtooth fore edge which means no trimming of the bookblock is required. It is hard bound in a ledger style with a rounded spine – this allows it to open fully flat and it has self-endpapers – perfect for swatching your colour palette on the inside of the clovers. The covering is a traditional half-binding with the spine and protective corners in book cloth. The sidings are glorious, English marbled paper. It is the small but significant attention to detail such as coordinated headbands that make this sketchbook appeal to the epicurean in each of us.
Our kit contains all the tools and sundries you will need to make one exquisite watercolour sketchbook from start to finish. The carefully selected, quality tools will last years enabling you to create many, many more books. The kit includes a link to our exclusive easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, with over 250 photographs thoroughly detailing every stage. Even if you have never made a book before, our instructions walk you through the process as confidently as if you were attending your own one-to-one workshop with me!
This A4 Artist’s Watercolour Book Kit contains:
A3 Self Healing Cutting Mat
Masking tape
Bookbinders Needle
PVA Glue
Large and Small Glue Brushes
Automatic Pencil
18′ Stainless Steel Ruler
18″ 15mm Aluminium Cutting Strip
Genuine Bone Folder
Oak Spine Forming Dowel
Sponge
Cloths
Beeswax
Book Finishing Wax
Heavy Duty Snap Off Blade Knife
Fine Piercing Awl
Scissors
250gsm 12 Sheets A2 Watercolour Paper
2x Sheets of A4+ Greyboard
2x 225mm x 375mm Printed Marbled Paper Sidings
Bookcloth for both spine and corners
Mull
Bookbinders Cotton Tape (Upgrade From Starter Kit)
Linen Bookbinders Thread (upgrade From Starter Kit)
Kraft Paper and Kraft Card for Book Hollow (Round Spine)
Paper for Piercing Template
Headband
Step By Step Instructions Downloadable in PDF Format
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Harriet Green –
This is the second kit I have bought from Learn Bookbinding (I bought the starter kit and successfully made the hardback books and continued to make more). This kit is great to progress to from the starter kit and it also introduces a few new skills for this different kind of binding (half binding with a hollow back/spring back spine). As mine was an early order there was no contents list but LB say this will be provided in future kits. The online instructions were once again very easy to follow and extremely well illustrated for every step of the process. You can print these at home if you want a hard copy but being able to zoom in on the online photos is very helpful. The full kit includes all the tools needed but if you have already bought the starter kit then you could opt for the materials only kit. It is worth reading through all the instructions before actually starting – this helps to check that you have all the tools required to hand. I have now made my first watercolour sketchbook and am very pleased with the result. The hand marbled papers provided for the covers make each album unique. This style of binding could be adapted to smaller books too. Learn Bookbinding were very prompt at answering a couple of queries I had about making this book.