Back to the Japanese papers. If you’re a long-time reader of this blog you’ve seen this one a lot, like here and here and here. It’s from The Paper Place and one of my all-time favorites. Combined here with Asahi book cloth in black raw silk from Talas, Hannemühle Bugra endsheets, and French Paper Speckletone in True White. Finished size about 6-1/2″ wide by 9-3/4″ high; 160 pages.

The funny thing about Japanese papers is that I use them a lot for covers, but I almost never choose to use those books as my own journals. In fact, I’m still working my way through these gray journals I made three years back.