The Collection is now available for sale on the Website Shop: https://www.iostopan.com/shop

Since mid-June I have been busy with the difficult task of sewing, binding and decorating a total of 15 journals that will be part of the new collection. The "Whispers Collection" will be available for sale in the beginning of October on my website at: www.iostopan.com

The size of all the notebooks is A6, 14 of them have a volume of 350 pages and the last one is massive one with a volume of 700 pages.

I wanted to try the same techniques, but in different conditions and that is why in this collection there is a slight game with contrast. Mostly because the notebooks are going to be bundled in pairs. All of them are bound in a nice, soft-to-touch, veg tanned goat skin, but half of them are lacquered to darken the the leather and allow it to be gilded as well.

The 15th notebook, however, is more interesting in every respect, it unifies the qualities of the others and surpasses them in many ways. Unlike the other journals, it is bound in vegetable tanned kangaroo leather, woven Gothic endbands from leathers strips and reinforced at the outer corners with massive silver corners.

The kangaroo skin is very special not only for its characteristic odor or beige-pink color, but also for its very smooth surface, very similar to calf skin. It was beautiful to work with at all stages from thinning, to dyeing and binding. The leather strips with which the enbands are woven are also of this skin but undyed.

Silver corners are something that I haven’t done with my journals, but the plan is for them to become a regular presence as my bindery was joined by my father’s newly created silversmith workshop. We both are tremendously excited by the future possibilities.

I’ll leave the big journal for a while to get back to the rest. I feel like I’m becoming quite attached to the blue sprinkled pages on the journals. I’ve managed to find the perfect compound for the job – methylene blue. I’ve done my previous attempts with ink, but I found it unstable to work with. Methylene blue will not stain when wet, in contrast to the ink instantly, which would have poured even further into the pages.

I hope you enjoy this short showcase of my work.

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