A visit to our bindery
Come with us and visit our specialist bookbindery where our cold-glue thread-sewn binding takes place.
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A modern take on paper marbling
Our new Marmor for Mark+Fold collaboration has been an opportunity to work with our good friend and master craftswoman, Lucy McGrath, founder of Marmor Paperie
Focus on: Lichen
Ever since we introduced ‘Lichen’ as a Mark+Fold cover colour in 2020, it’s been one of our most popular shades. As a colour, it’s as complex as the lifeform itself – which is the result of a symbiotic relationship between...
Helping Community Clothing towards Zero Waste
We've collaborated with Community Clothing and Paper Foundation, to transform denim offcuts collected in the cutting room at Community Clothing's jeans factory in Lancashire, into beautiful notebooks with the covers hand made in Cumbria.
Details matter: Lay-flat binding
A good notebook should flop open on your desk, ready for you to start writing. You should never have to squash, force or prop it open in order to get to work. Traditionally, books were made in thread-sewn sections. And...
NEW | Leather Covers made in Walsall UK
Each year since 2017 we have collaborated with Doe Leather, the third-generation leather goods brand producing some of the finest leather goods in the UK. Hand-crafted in Walsall, our Leather Covers are made from premium bridle leather, vegetable-tanned and hand-cut...
Made with Pride
Looking at these photos from a visit to our bindery, there is something striking about the faces of all the people involved in this process, and that's pride.
Piñatex: Good for people and the planet
Piñatex is a new material, developed as a PhD project at the Royal College of Art in London, by leather industry expert Carmen Hijosa who went on to found Ananas Anam.
Ingredients that flow | Water + the paper-making landscape
Mark+Folders will know we take pride in every part of our process. From initial ideas to the production of our products. It’s important to us that each and every element is carefully considered — not only to guarantee pleasure in use,...
Introducing Piñatex
Piñatex is an innovative natural textile made from pineapple fibres. It resembles felt but performs in a similar way to leather and has been used to make clothes, shoes and even furniture. Created by a leather-goods expert, Carmen Hijosa, who...
Materials Feature | Vanilla Smooth 120gsm
For the 2022 Mark+Fold Diary, we’ve used our all-time favourite paper — vanilla smooth 120gsm. Made in the Lake District, it’s exactly the same as the one we used for our very first Notebook Mark One, back in 2015. Unlike...
Plastic-free from day one
We’ve used plastic-free packaging from day one at Mark+Fold. This means no cellophane wrappers on cards, no shrink wrapping on notebooks...
Christmas Cards Printed in Scotland
Freshly printed in Aberdeen, our Christmas Card design for this year is a riff on the Mark+Fold thumbcut, turning our semi-circle motif into a series of pendant decorations, hanging on delicate 'dotted' chains.
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Hand-making at Wyvern Bindery
This week we were privileged to visit Wyvern Bindery to see our Special Edition 2022 Diary being hand-bound, and thought you'd enjoy a glimpse behind the scenes. This edition of 100 copies will be sent out over the coming weeks, once they've made their short...
Paper made from coffee cups
One of our favourite papers is made from used paper cups, which are collected from high street coffee shops around the UK and turned into recycled pulp at the James Cropper Mill in the Lake District. JAMES CROPPER...
Cold Glue Ota Binding
Our notebooks are made in thread-sewn sections, bound using a very thin layer of glue to attach the gauze, as in traditional bookbinding. The cover is then attached via two elegant hinges either side of the spine, using a very strong glue....
Process | The Mark+Fold Diary
'Losing my diary would be worse than crashing the car!' At Mark+Fold we like to talk to people about a shared passion for stationery, and this informs our designs. In 2017, we decided to develop our first Diary. So,...
Factory Visit | James Cropper Paper Mill, Cumbria
We had the pleasure of visiting the James Cropper paper mill in Cumbria, where many of our papers are made. Having made our own paper on a very small scale, so we had an understanding of the process. But to see the...