Handbound Journals covered in leather and inlaid overlapped parchment mosaic.

Lettering in gold foil.

Laid paper inside.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 21 x 17 cm
  • 21 x 14 cm
  • 17 x 17 cm

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Handbound Pocket Diaries covered in full leather.
In-lay leather dots.

Laid paper inside.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 11 x 7 cm

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Handbound Journals and Notebooks covered with waxed paper. Lettering on the front cover.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 11 x 7 cm
  • 11 x 11 cm
  • 17 x 9 cm
  • 15 x 12 cm
  • 13 x18  cm

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Re-Cycle. Re-Use. Re-New. …Re-Think!
Because “…from the diamonds nothing grow up, from the muck flowers can grow”
(Festinalente Books workshop at Oxfam shop, Dalston – London. 11th July 2001)

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Handbound mini notebooks covered with florentine paper.
Cloth on spine and corners.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 11X11 cm

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Handbound Guest Books covered in silk embroidered cloth.
Leather on the spine.
Laid paper inside.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 21 x 28 cm

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Handbound Pocket Diaries covered in embroidered silk.

Laid paper inside.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 11 x 7 cm

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Handbound Pocket Diaries covered in silk embroidered cloth.
Laid paper inside.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 11 x 7 cm
  • 11 x 14 cm

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Handbound Journalcovered in in silk embroidered cloth.
Green Morocco Leather on the spine.
Laid paper inside.
Housed in a silk
embroidered bag.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.
Hand-made bag.

Reference sizes:

  • 20 x 17 cm

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Handbound Mini Diaries covered in in silk embroidered cloth.
False raise bands on the leather spines for decorative function.
Laid paper inside.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 9 x 14
  • 14 x 14 cm

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Handbound Diaries covered with ‘FestinalenteBooks’ marbled paper.
The colours of text blocks, end papers and head caps are chosen according to each book cover.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 14 x 11 cm
  • 21x 15 cm

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Notepads covered with ‘FestinalenteBooks‘ mabled and paste papers.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 12 x 14 cm
  • 8 x 14 cm

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Card holders covered with Festinalente Booksmabled, paste and chrome papers.

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Cards covered in waxed and Japanese paper laminated together.
Inside, hand made paper calligraphed by hand.
Envelop close with sealing wax.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.

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Handbound blank book bound in hemp and decorated with twisted strips of parchment.
Oasis Blu leather on the spine.
Bespoke Clamp shell.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY handbound by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 17 x 12 cm

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One-section bindings housed in a leather bag.
Each booklet is bound in Japanese paper.

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.
Together with the leather bag.

Reference sizes:

  • 18 x 12 cm

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Handbound notebooks covered with different hand-made papers* sewed together. Hemp on the back.
(*Papers: Kozo, Mitzumata, Gampi, Lokhta made by Festinalente Books)

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 16 x 10 cm
  • 10 x 14 cm

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Non-adhesive bindings and case bindings covered with overlapped off-cuts from different papers*.
The off-cuts used come from the fringed edges of hand-made sheets.
(In the pictures: *Indian and oriental waxed paper)

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 21 x 15 cm
  • 12 x 15 cm

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Handbound products covered in Suede: a rough material for a wild trip!

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These bookbinding products are COMPLETELY hand-made by Festinalente Books.

Reference sizes:

  • 18 x 13
  • 10 x 10 cm
  • 8 x 15 cm

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