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A5 Hand-made Exercise Book, Black-on-black

A5 slim notebook, made with Takeo Tela paper

£16.00

Hand-made in London from rare Japanese papers, these slim format notebooks are perfect for colour-coding your projects.

A5 Hand-made Exercise Book, featuring a Takeo Tela Black cover with Takeo Tela black end paper. These are rare and exceptionally beautiful papers we acquired when working on a special commission for Takeo at Japan House London. 

A5 (148 x 210mm) format, with 48 pages 120gsm smooth cream paper made in Scotland and the (now closed) Stoneywood Mill.

Small batch, hand-made in London, July 2024.

Why you'll love it

Neon thread detail, hand-bound exercise book

Hand-sewn in London

A good notebook should open flat without force, for a comfortable writing experience. Our hand-sewn books are made using the simplest of bookbinding techniques, stitched in a single section and trimmed to size.

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From our paper archive

We make our Hand-sewn Exercise Books from leftover papers we have collected from past projects or samples. These beautiful papers, from pioneering paper mills in Europe and Japan, add a tactile delight to your daily note-taking.

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120gsm fountain-pen friendly pages

It all starts with selecting the finest materials. We consider only sustainably-produced papers and consider everything from the feel of the paper in your hands, to its opacity, smoothness and resistance to feathering with fountain pen.

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Responsibly made

Plastic-free since 2015

Our paper-based packaging is designed to be re-used, and then recycled. Our glassine envelopes and hand-wrapped bible paper replace single-use plastics.

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Transparent manufacture

We proudly share every step of our production process. We work exclusively with specialist printers and book-binders in UK and Europe who share our perfectionism and attention to detail.

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