TAŞ MAKAS KAĞIT Handmade Notebooks
Taş Makas Kağıt means Rock Paper Scissors in Turkish. Me and two other friends (Yasemin and Derin) started to make notebooks at first just for fun or as gifts for friends and family. But then quickly it became a passion. We now experience new bounding techniques, new materials for the covers, cool graphics and fabrics.
As Amelia who covered our notebooks in her blog "Be Happy" says, the handmade quality of these notebooks add a special something for its users. These notebooks are the perfect alternative for mass-production.
"What I love about the products is that, they are hand bound, so, when you use it, you know that there isn't a machine out there, in a dark corner that spits these out faster than the world can use them up, but someone actually took their time & made an effort just for you, so you could have that notebook."
Taş Makas Kağıt means Rock Paper Scissors in Turkish. Me and two other friends (Yasemin and Derin) started to make notebooks at first just for fun or as gifts for friends and family. But then quickly it became a passion. We now experience new bounding techniques, new materials for the covers, cool graphics and fabrics.
As Amelia who covered our notebooks in her blog "Be Happy" says, the handmade quality of these notebooks add a special something for its users. These notebooks are the perfect alternative for mass-production.
"What I love about the products is that, they are hand bound, so, when you use it, you know that there isn't a machine out there, in a dark corner that spits these out faster than the world can use them up, but someone actually took their time & made an effort just for you, so you could have that notebook."
Rainbow Notebook
10 x 19,8 cm notebook with a black cover and handbound with pink wax thread.
Small notebook with a vintage group photo on the cover. 220 sheets, 7,4 x 10,5 cm
Polka dot notebook with light and dark blue pages. Very handy for sketching
This notebook is for designers and artists. The black, blue, dark and light green pages are perfect for sketching with colourful pencils. The stripe is made with a special japanese tape.
This is a notebook I made for my boyfriend. It has white paper along with black paper and transparent paper to sketch since he is an architect.
Personalized cover
That's my birthday. He'd better not forget!!!
The thunderbolt notebook. The shape is carved out from the cover and the notebook is bound with buttonhole stitch which exposes the paper within and shows off the binding.
