This journal has roughly 200 pages (400 page sides you can write on) and is around 1" thick.  The pages are 6" wide by 9" tall.  The cover is burgundy Sokoto goatskin leather and there are raised cords on the spine with blind stamped lines around them.  The image on the front cover is a portrait of the book's recipient.  This portrait was pressed into the leather of the cover using a metal die.  My customer sent me black-and-white-only artwork and this artwork was turned into a raised design on a metal block.  The die was then heated, and pressed into the surface of the leather darkening areas that come in contact with the heat and leaving an embossed design.  All stamping on this book cover is blind stamping (the lines on the spine and image on the front were stamped using only heat and pressure; no foil or non-foil color was used in the stamping process).  My customer did a great job in providing me with an image that was well-suited for a die and the results were effective!   It is truly a portrait in leather.

A book like this would cost around $255 PLUS the cost of the metal die used to stamp the portrait image on the front cover (in this case, the die might cost around $100).

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