{"id":32495,"date":"2020-05-10T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/?p=32495"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:33:28","slug":"how-to-make-a-classic-leather-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/2020\/05\/10\/how-to-make-a-classic-leather-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make a Classic Leather Journal in 8 Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The past few weeks have been quite lonely for countless people all over the world. We are anxious, worried for the world, at times fearful. Curiously, too, we seem to have quietly entered into an age of journals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More and more people are transcribing what they are cooking, eating, reading, thinking, and streaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental health professionals have long urged self-documentation as a healthy way to release anxiety. That explains at least one use for journals in times of crisis: mood regulation – or, as millennials might put it, venting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mental health professionals urge us toward self-documentation as a healthy way to release our anxieties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Making Your Own Leather Journal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But to actually craft a journal from scratch serves a purpose all its own. Making a journal can take up at least some of our time while we wait for the restoration of some semblance of normalcy. And because of the repetitive steps, this project can serve as a stress reliever, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how to fashion a classic leather<\/a>-bound journal using the Coptic binding stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n