Making use of scrap wood and scavenged reclaimed materials (including, when appropriate, leather from World War II gun holsters), Philadelphia-based designers Margaux and Walter Kent are neo-homesteaders who create the kind of products for their Peg & Awl line that they would use themselves. We particularly like their frontier-style garden journals, fashioned from hardwood covers, hand-torn sheets of drawing paper, and sturdy binder’s linen.
Above: With hand-sewn pages and a cover made from reclaimed wood, each Coptic Bound Reclaimed Journal is unique; $50 at Peg & Awl.
Above: The journal comes with a choice of walnut or oak cover; it measures 4.75 inches high and has 78 sheets of paper.
Above: The designers say, “The wood will vary greatly from one book to another and may show signs of the wood’s prior life such as bug holes, nail holes, knots…though most of the wood that we use for book covers shows its beauty is in the grain itself.”
For more about Peg & Awl, see Frontier-Style Goods for the 21st Century.