Handmade Notebook
A notebook, composed in collaboration with Paper Foundation in the Lake District & honouring the craft of handmade papermaking. A thick, dense, mottled linen rag stock covers and protects the notebook, which is internally bookended by fine sheets of laid-paper made up of hemp, cotton and abacá fibres. Limited to an edition of 300.
Thread-sewn, lay flat Swiss binding with exposed spine.
Cover: Handmade Linen Rag Paper, 400gsm
End Leaves: Handmade Falcon Laid Paper, 60gsm
Body: 160 Blank Pages, Fedrigoni Arena Natural Smooth, 100gsm
The mill patiently oversees a material metamorphosis from rag and cloth into hand-formed sheets of paper.
Laid-paper, a pre-nineteenth century standard for papermaking, is produced on a grid of fine wires that impress themselves onto the sheets and, consequently, create an incredible detailing when light is passed through.
" The immediacy of the creation is one of the remarkable things about papermaking. You have a handful of seconds to form the sheet, and once those have passed there is no modification that can be made. ”
" There is a moment when the mould is pulled from the milky water and the incipient sheet is seen. The simple mix of linen and water transformed into something beautiful. ”
Tom Frith-Powell, paper-maker
