Dark blue...

Fabric: Handwoven/dark blue songket
Size: Large / A5
Page: 168 pages
Do pm me if interesed.

Wrap in lime green..

Book binding wrap in lime green handwoven fabric...

Fabric: Handwoven/songket
Size: Medium
Page: 168 pages
Do pm me if interesed.

Variety of colour..

Turquoise, royal blue and lime green songket..all taken yesterday.

Met someone yesterday...she took 2 books and another friend order 20 books in songket cover. That is great but it is chalenging for me because i never do it a lot in one short. First of all, i need to find a red and purple songket. The more colour is the merrier variety. I hope she will like it and appreciate my effort. Its not about the price, but its about passion and pleasure of sewing, stitching and when the idea came over..i don't care!

Songket..timeless

Kettle stitch..it's not perfect at all but it mark this is handmade book binding...

Handwoven fabrics, tenun songket is always being a passion for a designer who's appreciate our Malay heritage and culture. Songket is evergreen, wherever you go, songket is the most ultimate beautiful fabric and it ensemble of our Malay Royal. If im not mistaken, certain royal family has their own colour to remark their family. Perak is yellow and sometimes i saw them in light purple or lilac while Pahang is often in green. Well, they can wear any colour, any motif even any types of songket. We have many types such as corak bunga tabur or bunga penuh.

Few years back, i met our fabric specialise cum budayawan, Mak Ungku or Azah Aziz at her residence in PJ to talk about songket. She told me how to preseve songket to make it long last. We can't fold it because it may cause the benang emas damage. The best way is hang it or roll it.

Elastic bend shocking pink..electic!

When we talk about songket too...we can see some couple wear it during their wedding day, for akad nikah ceremony or bertandang and some other reservation.

Songket with pucuk rebung berjuang and bunga tampuk manggis..we have a lot of motif in Malay world such as awan larat, potong wajik, pucuk rebung, bunga cengkih etc...

I have my collection. eventhought it's not expensive but as Malay lady and appreciate the handwoven fabric, i bought it and studied about it. It is special, beautiful and very exclusive on its own way. At least, we must have a piece of it in our wardrobe.

Do pm me or buzz me if u interested to buy this kinda series...Songket series...will update more during this weekend...

Fabric: Songket
Size: Medium
Stitch: Kettle stitch
Price: RM50

Art of life...

Mont Blanc and red leaf...

Mont Blanc is art of writing your life and red is art of feeling stronger in life and yet a book binding is a combination of skill and creativity. It is happiness!

A ribbon...i like it much!

Kettle stitch. Butterfly...fly and fly..

Orange butterfly...ouchh!

Lace and embroidery...

A ribbon is from Body Shop...i should tell Loshini or Saasanii from Body Shop to visit me here...hehe

I have a strong ethusiast towards lace, embroidery, ribbon and beautiful fabric..i remember...14 yrs back...i bought two metres of French lace for my wedding dress...RM450 for two metres and wore it for majlis bertandang only. Just once and after that, it hanged in a wardrobe till now.

Ribbon was recycle from Body Shop...

Fabric: Recycle from Kak Ita @ Saz Fashion, Medan Mara.
Ribbon: Recycle ribbon from Body Shop

Blue cool...

The accesories is from a second hand shawl. I decided to recycle their accesories here.

Coptic binding stitch...

Blue...often make me see above up in the sky...and the words that blue is always make me feeling cool..it's like a cotton candy in a white paper...during my childhood in kampung ..emak likes to buy cotton candy when we went to visit funfair. The other thing that i always asked emak to buy was a balloon. Both cotton candy and balloon really inspired me to be a behave kiddy but now i know all my nieces and nephews were not allowed to eat cotton candy because of the sweetness...sigh!

A scond hand accesories..took it from old shawl..don't want to wear it anymore...so i better recycle it as apart of craft thing..

I never plan to create like this..it came instantly when i sat down in a work station. One by one or step by step...and within two hours...the book is ready. This is a best therapeutic for me. Sewing, stitching, cutting or else crafting are my task. If you give me a task like secretary...arghhh i die but if you lock me in a paper factory or craft store..ok im alive!

Sorry for a bad quality pic.

Fabrick: Gill Quilt Shop, Bangsar Village.
Size: Medium/A5
Ribbon: Satin type.

Giraffe printed..

The remnant of the paper fabrik...reall worth for keep it for a long time ago. The quality is still absolutely great! A small piece ot it and i patch with double sided tape to make it large..

As i mention earlier...i did recycle...save paper, save nature..and save every single thing if i think i can recycle it. Don't know yet what can i do with a piece of paper, or ribbon or file that was given to me before..but after a month or year in the store..the idea came and i will not delay to be in a work station.

Can you see the stripe dark line? That was a violet ribbon. Use it as an accesories to cover the patch line of the paper fabric..hmmm quite good. Ok at least look perfect from far but if you scrutiny it..ahhhaaa im pretty sure it's not perfect at all...who cares. I don't...

The giraffe printed motif given to me long time ago. If im not mistaken, colleague gave it since 2003 and i keep it proper, put it in plastic to cover from dust. The material is like paper fabric violet, hard to crimple. Actually it was a file with Animal Planet promotion.  I did a box before and the remnant goes to my book binding.

An owl, my sweet little bronze motif..o yeahh the kettle stich also not perfect and too much mistake. Pink and orange..bad combination but it's ok for me because the book is not for sale..it will be my personal collection...and will give it to anyone who os lucky...orang kata barang yang kita sayang itulah yang baik diberikan kepada orang lain...

An owl on a giraffe printed motif..

See...the stitch is not perfect..

Another angle...

Book and box..both from recycle paper...can yo see the Animal Planet logo? An elephant..

Lace cover..

The red bead..make it look great!

A lace from remnant..Kak Ita, a tailor at Pertama Kompleks gave it to me long time ago and i still it because it is too beautiful to waste..

I mix the colour paper..

Another angle of the book. The red small accesories is from Zenith Divas..

A colour of life..

I recycle the ribbon. Montblanc ribbon..the small one is using gift wrapper from Give Shop @ KLCC.

I made this for friend of mine...he likes to see it in cimbonation colour. His text: Shasha can i have black and colour of life? And i definitely replied: YES dear!

Kettle stitch binding too...

An owl..

During my childhood..when emak  told me about an owl..i understand that the bird is a ghost bird but now it turn cute and no more scary about it..

 I like an owl..it is super duper cute..it also has his own character. We basically thought that owl is apart of horror bird, but actually owl is billiant and awesome because his vision is 360 degree!

Coptic binding..

Chrysanthemum motif...

Green is among my fav colour...

 I love this colour...and the motif is chinese crysanthemum flower..very strong characer of it..

Kettle Stitch...

 At the back is Dodo from Dodo Handcraft...

I did it!

I did it...yay!

That is the books...first time attending the workshop. I did it! It is worth for the whole day class with them..

Can you see the different of bind?