HAMMER
& DAISY
Journals, pouches, pencil cases and more
Handmade by Gracia & Louise
A little bit about us, and how it all began.
We initially began hammer & daisy as a small, rather ill equipped, gardening business, with the hope that it would provide a little financial aid to the making of our limited edition artists’ books. Our gardening business proved, unsurprisingly, to be a short lived affair and all that remains of it today is the name. hammer & daisy greatly enjoy folding paper in preference to tending to your trees and ridding your garden beds of weeds.
hammer & daisy, in its current guise, could be said to have formed early in 2003 when we adapted an exposed spine, square knot binding technique studied at the Centro del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland. What began as a line of hammer & daisy handmade fabric covered journals has since grown to include a small, square concertina journal, an A6 journal pouch and narrow pencil case, an A7 scribbler and a parliament of owl pinnies.
Every single element of our handmade journals, pouches, pencil cases and more, is handmade. We hand fold the paper of every concertina journal and the holes along the spine of every square knot are individually hole punched, one page at a time. The covers are cut from various fabrics, ironed and glued, ready to be assembled at a later date and the small brass wires that rest in each saddle section are hand bent to form tiny, perfect right angles. The spine of each each square knot journal is made up by a series of knots, with a single A4 journal requiring 168 square knots.
{Images from top to bottom, left to right, a smattering of A6 square knot journals and Thelma's felt pins, owl pinnies and pencil cases.}
Journals, pouches, pencil cases and more
Handmade by Gracia & Louise
A little bit about us, and how it all began.
We initially began hammer & daisy as a small, rather ill equipped, gardening business, with the hope that it would provide a little financial aid to the making of our limited edition artists’ books. Our gardening business proved, unsurprisingly, to be a short lived affair and all that remains of it today is the name. hammer & daisy greatly enjoy folding paper in preference to tending to your trees and ridding your garden beds of weeds.
hammer & daisy, in its current guise, could be said to have formed early in 2003 when we adapted an exposed spine, square knot binding technique studied at the Centro del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland. What began as a line of hammer & daisy handmade fabric covered journals has since grown to include a small, square concertina journal, an A6 journal pouch and narrow pencil case, an A7 scribbler and a parliament of owl pinnies.
Every single element of our handmade journals, pouches, pencil cases and more, is handmade. We hand fold the paper of every concertina journal and the holes along the spine of every square knot are individually hole punched, one page at a time. The covers are cut from various fabrics, ironed and glued, ready to be assembled at a later date and the small brass wires that rest in each saddle section are hand bent to form tiny, perfect right angles. The spine of each each square knot journal is made up by a series of knots, with a single A4 journal requiring 168 square knots.
{Images from top to bottom, left to right, a smattering of A6 square knot journals and Thelma's felt pins, owl pinnies and pencil cases.}
