A Guest Book or Album, to use for a Baby Shower, New Baby, Baptism or Christening, Family Photograph album. Custom-made to order in your choice of fabric/papers, to match your colour scheme.

I have a good selection of papers and fabrics available, for you to choose from; or I can find materials to suit your requirements.

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Book Details:

This book is hand-bound with a Japanese stab stitch. It has hard covers, of book-board, covered and lined in your choice of paper.

The covers have a hinged section, to make them easier to open and less likely to be damaged by frequent handling.

The bound edges can be embellished with silk or cotton hand-made bookcloth, in a toning colour. A frayed-edge detail can be added if you wish (see photographs).

The binding is made with strong, waxed linen thread.

Guest Book Pages:

There are 20 pages (40 sides) of natural-white, 160 gsm cartridge paper with hand-torn edges.

This paper will accept most types of handwriting pen or drawing media, and you can fix photographs on one side of the paper.

Photograph Album Pages:

If you prefer, the cartridge paper pages can be replaced by 15 pages of 300gsm hand-cut Canford card (in your choice of colour), with spacers, to create a photo album that will accept photos on front and back of each page.

I would recommend this option if you want to put a lot of photographs into the book, as the spacers make more room inside the book, to allow for the extra thickness of the photos; so the book is not pushed out of shape (see detail photo).

If you want to put photos on both the front and back of each page, please ask for glassine paper interleaves to be added, as these protect the photographs and prevent them sticking together.

The cost for adding interleaves is $10, to cover the price of the glassine paper and the extra work required.

Tissue or vellum separator pages can be included instead of glassine paper. There will be a slightly higher additional charge, if vellum or tissue separators are required, as these papers are more expensive than the glassine paper. Please ask for a price before ordering.

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The book measures 8.25" x 7.25" (21 x 18.5cm) and the pages measure 7" x 7" (18cm x 18cm).

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If you would like an embellishment to be added to your album, I will be happy to give you an inclusive quotation.

See these two listings for embellishments and labels:

http://www.luulla.com/product/4497/baby-album-book-label---embossed-pram-or-baby-carriage-decor-embellishment

http://www.luulla.com/product/4667/add-a-label-to-your-lizziemade-book---hand-made-label-or-bookplate

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A matching hand-made tassel can be added on request, wrapped with silk or linen thread. See this listing for details:

http://www.luulla.com/product/4672/add-a-tassel-to-your-book---hand-made-tassel-embellishment

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UK Shipping is included in the price.

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