the final book i have made from scratch- cardboard covers stitched with neutral toned embroidery thread.

i developed the book by upgrading the binding style to coptic- it gives a way more professional look to it and i especially prefer the look of the binding.

i added covers to give it some finality but these might be detrimental to the ergonomics of it, as it won’t be as flexible.

Some of the items that I really enjoy to make, and sell (shop on Etsy), are notebooks with wooden covers, bound with Coptic-stitching. The front cover often have an image cut with a scroll saw. In this post I make notebooks with the image of the Guy-Fawkes mask, currently associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous:

Completed…

The Dart Vader book competition closed on the 29th of February 2016 and I drew the winner on the 1st of March (this was the 61st day of the year and also the seed number for the random draw). Below is the script I used to draw the winner, implemented in R.

Cover of the Darth Vader notebook

The competition was quite a lot of fun with many entries and 116 correct answers.

Thank you for…

Darth Vader book competition!

I like to make books, I like Star Wars and I like to give away stuff. I thus combined all three these things and made a book with Darth Vader on the cover that I will give away and hopefully generate some advertisement for my shop on Etsy – Induku.

The 3 easy steps to enter and stand a chance to win this awesome of the one-of-a-kind, hand-made notebook are below this picture:

Win this notebook!

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Stitched wooden cover notebook.

I had a couple of pine plywood pieces left from a previous project, that did not work exactly as planned, and thought I could use it to make some novel book covers. I like Coptic stitching and wanted to extend this theme into the cover itself. I thus decided to cut the wooden covers into several pieces and stitch them together again. When I bound it into a book I got the following:

Final product!

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