Leather Journals & Notebooks
Books with a stone in the cover, and torn paper. The leather ones start at £9.95 for a pocket size and reach £24.95 for the deckle-edged seven colour book.
The vegetable-tanned journals are worth the difference at £14.95: bark tanning takes months instead of days, and the leather darkens with handling rather than staying exactly as it left the workshop. Soft-covered dream and wellness journals sit at £10.95 to £13.95.
Handmade paper takes pencil and rollerball well and can feather under a wet fountain nib, so it is worth a test page. Free UK delivery over £30.
Choosing one
Decide first whether it will be carried or kept on a desk. For a bag, the 6×4in moonstone book at £16.95 has belts that wrap as it fills; for a desk, the 120-page wellness journal at £13.95 has the most pages of anything here.
The vegetable-tanned journal at £14.95 is the one worth explaining: bark tanning takes months rather than days, so the leather darkens and softens with handling instead of staying as it left the workshop.
For a bedside, the dream journal at £10.95 is the right shape — recall collapses within about five minutes of waking. The velvet and soft-cover books are the ones that bend into a bag rather than sitting rigid at the bottom of it.
Journals sit well beside something to light while writing: see candles or Sleep & Unwind. For a desk rather than a bedside, Little Extras holds the smaller pieces that go with them.
