Well way back I made a leather journal cover
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23987
Crazy as it may seem some people might not want a SotP badge embossed on them :O I know, crazy talk but still true. So I looked for alternative pattern I could try and came up with Celtic Knotwork. I found just the thing for designing knots here
http://www.clanbadge.com/ details of how it works is here http://www.clanbadge.com/how.htm
I got the truetype font for making up these patterns and did a few tests on coasters. Happy with the results it was time to do a full journal cover. Here is the result. it is hand stitched with artificial sinew and made pretty much as the tutorial. the embossing is designed using the font I mentioned above but done pretty much as Thomas's belt embossing tutorial (on British Blades).
So here are the pictures
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23987
Crazy as it may seem some people might not want a SotP badge embossed on them :O I know, crazy talk but still true. So I looked for alternative pattern I could try and came up with Celtic Knotwork. I found just the thing for designing knots here
http://www.clanbadge.com/ details of how it works is here http://www.clanbadge.com/how.htm
I got the truetype font for making up these patterns and did a few tests on coasters. Happy with the results it was time to do a full journal cover. Here is the result. it is hand stitched with artificial sinew and made pretty much as the tutorial. the embossing is designed using the font I mentioned above but done pretty much as Thomas's belt embossing tutorial (on British Blades).
So here are the pictures