The biggest shop update in a while! I just added a giant stack of new kimono books in two sizes. The larger size is about the size of a postcard, and the smaller is about the half of it. I decided to call them small and tiny, instead of medium and small, as even the larger one is of a highly portable size.

This dusty purple silk is one of my all time favorites. I’m allowed to keep quite a few of those, aren’t I? It’s the same with my linen stash – some colors I’m always itching to use!

I also happen to love bold asymmetrical geometric patterns.

Some of the books shown in the group photos have already been sold, but there’s a wonderful selection still available.

These tiny ones are exceedingly stackable. I never miss snapping a spine shot of these cuties.

I have a few new-to-me vintage kimono pieces waiting to become books, but I also have some gorgeous patterned papers waiting to become endpapers for linen covered books, but I also have a poetry book with a quickly approaching deadline waiting to be written. I’m once again trying to build a functioning pattern of thinking poetry while binding books. The balance is there, I know – I’ve caught a glimpse of it every now and then.

I’d love to be more active online again, especially on Paperiaarre Instagram. I think I need to take this all more lightly, make this a little bit more personal again, so as to not entirely lose touch with you guys whenever I need to take some time off from bookbinding to work on my own books. I know the vast majority of you are not fluent in Finnish, so it makes little sense to share what I’m writing, but maybe I can go back to how things were in the early days of blogging, and share a bit more of the things I see and like and feel inspired by, at least in the IG stories if not elsewhere.