A lovely little photo album, for your very favourite snaps! This little book is hand bound with care, using a traditional style stab stitch binding. The covers are made with a paper covered in beautiful peacocks.
The peacock paper is a facsimile of a Chinese wallpaper, which is at the National Trust property, Erddig Hall, in Wrexham, Wales, UK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erddig). It hangs in the area near the Red Bedroom.
The album would be excellent for polaroid-style snaps, or a selection of small photos and would make a fabulous gift for a friend or loved one.
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The hinged hard covers have a 1.5" embellished edge of blue tussah silk, which matches the peacocks on the paper. This silk is woven in two colours - the threads in one direction are bright royal-peacock blue, with a natural slubby texture, those in the other are very fine and black. This gives it a slight shimmer and textured feel, with an appearance that is very attractive.
The silk is overlapped onto the paper covers, with a small fringe on the edge. The Japanese style stab-stitch binding is made with a golden yellow, hand-waxed linen thread, for strength and beauty.
The inside of each cover is lined in deep ocean blue Canford art paper, with a smooth, fine finish. The 15 pages are of pale blue Canford card, which is also smooth and fine in finish. The pages have been pre-creased at the binding, to make them turn easily and without crumpling.
Each page has a thin card "spacer" and a decorative page wrap, in the same peacock paper as the covers, giving a very pretty appearance to the bound edge. The spacers allow for photos to be added to the album, without it bulging out of shape. The book is therefore deeper at the bound edge, than at the front.
The overall outside measurement of the book is approx 7.5" x 6" (19cm x 15cm), with a useable page area of approx 5.75" square (14.5cm).
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If you wished to enhance your book, you could choose a custom label, or a hand-made tassel, in the same silk as the binding.
See here for a label: http://www.luulla.com/product/4667/add-a-label-to-your-lizziemade-book---hand-made-label-or-bookplate
or here for tassels: http://www.luulla.com/product/4672/add-a-tassel-to-your-book---hand-made-tassel-embellishment
I also offer a hand-bound guest book, or large photo albums, custom made to order, which could be made to match this little photo album.
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U.K. Postage is included in the price.
If you would like a similar book, but in your own choice of size or number of pages, please contact me. I welcome custom orders!
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I use Tracked Airmail Delivery for all Guest Books, Albums, Leather Books and Custom Orders. The delivery targets are between 1 and 7 days, depending on the location (but see note above).
If you wish me to ship your smaller Ready-to-Ship order by Tracked delivery, this can be done, for an additional fee.
Generally, deliveries to UK and Europe take less than a week, to USA/Canada around 7-14 days; however, items shipped outside UK are subject to local Customs laws and may be delayed, if Customs in the receiving country wishes to inspect the package. Therefore, I suggest allowing a further week or two, to ensure your item reaches you in plenty of time.
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Customised items and commission orders are non-refundable once completed, unless faulty. However, I want you to be happy with your item. If you do have a problem, I would like to know, so I can try to put it right.
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Items sent outside U.K. will be sent by "Airsure", which is an insured and tracked delivery service.
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