cuero Vintage Leather Journal - Antique Handmade Leather Bound journal with deckle edge paper for Men And Women Diary - Leather Sketchbook - Drawing Journal Notebook - Great Gift (5 by 7 inch)

Great gift for our Harry Potter lover. She loved the rustic look and the quality was perfect

This is an amazing gift for a writer. The paper is made to look hundreds of years old which adds to the vintage feel. The leather wrap around strap also adds to the look.

I am making a book of all my knowledge and this is perfect. Like the important stuff. How to change a basic tire. Things to ask when getting oil changes. How to fix a wall socket. I mean basic knowledge I learned over time. The book is really cool. Reminds me of an Indiana Jones type book. The pages are thick you will need a good marker type pen I used a medium point felt and it works great, but you cannot erase. It is going to be epic I just love the feel and the look of this book it was exactly what I wanted to enable recording things I have learned that others should know and read one day. Really happy with the quality and the build of this book.

It came EXACTLY as pictured. Better quality than I even expected. I love it. My son will be so happy when he opens it on Christmas.

Genuine leather with a solid feel. I really enjoy the pages and the write ability. Lock is so cute.

There is a lot to like/love about this journal. Size4×6 is one of my favorite sizes for traveling with and creating on the go. I am an artist and I just wanted something I could do daily exercises in. It's not really meant for creating masterpieces. I am mainly a mixed media artist. So far I have used: pen/ink, watercolor, water soluble pencils and colored pencil. The paper seems almost like fabric. I am not sure its exact content, but definitely a large percentage of cotton. Ok my likes and dislikes: love the vintage look and textured pages. The handmade paper is both a pro & con. Neat textures, but not uniform throughout. Some pages have "bleach spots", others have darker fibers that shine through the page( see the page with the sun/moon) there are a couple of fibers that shown through the moon. Pages are not very forgiving with use of an eraser. I made some guidelines for my quotes and went to erase and it made white lines in the paper( Ultimately just left the guidelines). Pro-- I purposely used the eraser to make "sunbeams" around the sun. On the sun my metalic acrylic ink showed up well, but I have a gold pen that typically shows up super shiny on other papers, but doesn't with this paper( see the stars. I ultimately used white to create my stars). I thought maybe I could go over it and build up the ink, but it didn't work. Even though the paper is really thick, the paper is extremely fragile when trying to layer or erase. On the sun I used watercolor and I also used a fluid acrylic ink. I barely had some bleed through on the previous page (see the mandala page-- a couple of red spots came through). There is absolutely no bleeding with normal pens. I used multiple pen sizes and some brush pens with the black ink. There's also not any "spreading" of the ink particularly on my lettering. Other than my issue with my gold pen, I must say I am really happy so far. I hope you find this info helpful.

Beautiful and a fantastic gift to give to someone eclectic

Update: I left the journal opened in the garage for about a week, the damp smell is completely gone, it just smells like leather now. I’ve used watercolors on a page, which took some time to dry, but turned out nicely after drying. This journal is just the size I was hoping it would be. The leather is thick and supple. The pages are cottony and thick. It smells like it was wrapped when damp, so is a little musty smelling, it’s not a strong smell, I’m leaving it open on a bookshelf for several days to dry. I would repurchase. I like the look and rustic beauty.