Handmade, one at a time
Leather journals with a story to tell
Genuine leather covers, antique clasps and deckle-edge pages, handmade and bound one at a time.
The Triple Moon
Embossed moons and a semi-precious stone
A brass buckle, coptic binding and vintage deckle-edge paper, in four leathers.
Deckle-edge paper
Pages that feel a century old
Thick, hand-torn vintage paper with a texture you can feel under the pen.
Genuine leather
Real leather covers, made by hand
Coptic binding
Stitched spines that open flat
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Tracked shipping
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Most treasured
Our best sellers
Six designs
Shop by design
Moons, stones, lions and Mother Earth. Every one hand-bound in genuine leather.
Journal spotlights
Meet the journals
A closer look at the designs our customers keep coming back for.
Inside the cover
Plain or deckle-edge?
Our journals come with one of two papers. Drag across the photo to compare them.
- iPlain vintage paperSmooth, clean-cut cream pages for everyday writing and sketching. Found in Green Stone and Seven Stone.
- iiDeckle-edge vintage paperThick, hand-torn pages with rough, feathered edges that feel a century old. Found in Triple Moon, Lion King, Mother Earth and Antique Key Lock.
How they're made
Made by hand, the old way
Every Retqa journal starts with a genuine leather cover that is tooled, embossed or printed, then fitted with its stone or closure and bound by hand with coptic stitching.
Genuine leather
Real leather covers with their own grain and character.
Coptic binding
An exposed, hand-stitched spine that lets pages open flat.
Stones and closures
Semi-precious stones, brass buckles, straps and keys.
Vintage paper
Plain or hand-torn deckle-edge pages.
Gifting
The gift that gets kept
For writers, artists, travellers and dreamers. Add a gift note to your order at checkout.
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