10 Watercolour Travel Journals
Once in a while, I do edition bindings. This is the second book produced by my customer for his travels in Indonesia in 2018. Back in 2017, he made 6 copies of his first book, and also following the look set back then, we decided to keep the batik element in the books.
We chose a single colour batik this time, bound using the same disappearing spine Bradel binding, using a matching solid blue book cloth to break the patterns. The books are all unique, having a different part of the batik on the cover, as well as different colour endpapers. My favourite ones was the one with the huge peony on the front. Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph the endbands, which I made using part of the batik pattern.
I admire my customer’s adventures and envy his beautiful watercolour paintings. They were all painted during his travels deep into the Indonesian jungle, living like a local. It always brings me a lot of joy looking at his paintings while binding his books. Perhaps one day, I might learn to paint like him.