Tavy Art folder

£75.00

A beautiful handmade leather journal / art folder, the perfect size for carrying in your bag or rucksack - stylish for a business desk and robust to take adventuring over the moors for the budding artist in you. Made from the finest oak bark tanned leather tanned in Devon and hand stitched with waxed linen thread. This journal will last for many many years.

Available on Made To Order


Made to order time frame: 1-2 weeks

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160 pages of journal refill notebooks comprising 96 cream lined pages for writing and 64 plain pages of high quality kraft paper for free-spirited thinking and sketching.

Your desired personalisation will be stamped onto a small piece of leather, which is then stitched onto the top corner of the front

Available in sizes
A5 & A6 (A5 has a sewn in pen loop)These folders are made to fit standard UK size paper books with a little extra wiggle room:
A5: 16 x 23cm able to take a notebook refill of up to 200 pages
A6: 12 x 16.5
(A5 notebook size 14.8x 21 cm/5.8×8.3 inch and A6 notebook size 10.5×14.8 cm /4.1 x 5.8 inch)
Oak bark tanned leather is tanned using tree bark; this technique is known as vegetable tanning and is gentle and kind to the environment and the hide. Vegetable tanning has been a method used to make leather for thousands of years. Each hide is unique and different from the last, having gained the characteristics of the animal it once was, and due to its organic nature colours can vary from one hide to another.  It has exceptional qualities and retains the hide’s natural aesthetics like growth lines, grains, marks and scars which as a maker I celebrate within my designs. Vegetable tanned leathers absorb the traces of our life, maturing and ageing with a personal expression of naturalness and truth. Over time this leather will give a beautiful patina and an unmistakable warm shade that becomes more intense with the passing of time and daily use.

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    Inspiration and Techniques

    Using traditional tools and techniques from days of old saddlery craft, Katy works hard to design and craft items that are simple and traditional, robust yet practical. Inspired by the old ways of crafters, and the want to move away from a mass produced, throwaway society. Katy believes that the answer to a more sustainable future is to minimise short lived and replaceable items and instead make long lasting and repairable goods, using locally sourced materials.