In this relaxed, sociable workshop led by Karrie Priestley from Priestleys Leather Goods and lecturer of art, fashion and textiles. You will make your own full-grain leather notebook from scratch. Choose your leather colour, your elastic, your charms and hand-stamp your own initials into the cover. Everything is provided and no experience is needed whatsoever, just turn up ready to make something.
Making things by hand is genuinely good for you. The room always goes quiet in the best possible way, people slow down, focus and leave feeling better than when they arrived. Come and find out why.
Choose your make:
• A6 notebook — £35
• A5 notebook — £45
• Trifold notebook — £55
All materials, tools and instruction included. Every piece is personalised and yours to keep.
What happens on the day
Everything is provided. Each person chooses a piece of full-grain vegetable-tanned leather and every tool they need. The session moves through marking, punching, edge finishing and assembly at a relaxed pace — there is no rush, no pressure, no wrong answers. Just steady hands and the quiet satisfaction of watching something take shape.
Every notebook is personalised with hand-stamped initials, a small act that makes the piece entirely theirs.