A6 Hand-marbled notebook with 120gsm fountain pen friendly pages. Made in the UK.
NB: This item is available to pre-order for shipping from Friday 25 April.
Our collaboration with Marmor Paperie is an ode to the mesmerising craft of paper marbling, combined with the popular Mark+Fold Exercise Book format (48 pages of 120gsm fountain-pen-friendly paper, hand-sewn in Suffolk into a slimline notebook).
Every single copy is uniquely hand-printed with a design created by Lucy adding droplets of paint to the water’s surface before laying paper down onto it to transfer this impression onto the paper. The entire process starts again from scratch for every single copy, so no two are the same and Lucy’s artistry is embedded in every single one.
As with all Mark+Fold notebooks and diaries, these lay perfectly flat thanks to thread-sewn binding. This is done by master bookbinder Vicki in Suffolk, on a Singer sewing machine built specially for book-binding.
The inside pages are our favourite super-smooth 120gsm cream paper, suitable for fountain pen thanks to its excellent opacity, smoothness and resistance to feathering. Made sustainably in Munkedal, Sweden.
Lucy and Amy both started their businesses in London in 2015. As friends with a mutual respect for one another’s creative work, they had been talking about collaborating for some time and in early 2025 decided to get together and create a range of notebooks together.
The colour theme is inspired by Lucy’s explanation that ‘paper marbling is like a collaboration with the water.’ The swirling blues are like an illustration of the process itself, as well as a nod to summer travels and playing in water, with the neon orange flashes reminding us of orange armbands and fluorescent bikinis!
The three designs were developed by Lucy and Amy working in close collaboration, with the ambition to showcase a spectrum of skills in Lucy’s repertoire and tell some of the story of the Turkish marbling tradition (also known as Ebru), which is on the List of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Wave is the most traditional and intricate of the three designs, using complex comb work to create a pattern called ‘French Curl’ which reminded us of a wave.
Tide is created by drawing lines through the paint to create a vertical pattern like ripples in water.
Rockpool is the most organic of the three designs, with almost accidental looking placement of the droplets, and a bright neon orange veining underneath. This was the first design we created and it immediately reminded us of a Rockpool on a sunny day, clear water you could dip your toes into with the sun twinkling on the surface. The ripple (which creates a 3D illusion effect) is created using a technique called ‘Spanish Wave;’ where Lucy rocks the paper side-to-side as she places it down on the surface.
In conversation | Lucy McGrath and Amy Cooper-Wright
— A6 format (passport size)
— 350gsm cover paper made in Cumbria
— hand-marbled by Lucy at the Marmor studio at Cockpit Deptford
— 48 plain pages, super-smooth 120gsm fountain-pen-friendly paper, made in Sweden
— Logo in neon foil
— Printed & Singer-sewn in Suffolk
— 100% UK-made, using materials made in Cumbria and Sweden
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The master craftswoman and founder of Marmor Paperie is one of just 12 professional paper marblers practising this endangered craft here in the UK. Lucy first trained in Turkey to learn the traditional technique known as Ebru, recognised by UNESCO.
The water-inspired patterns are an ode to the marbling process, which Lucy describes as 'a collaboration with the water.' We chose a vivid mix of blues, with flashes of neon orange reminiscent of days spent by the water, with orange arm-bands and fluorescent bikinis!
Thanks to the nature of the marbling process, every single one is unique. The intricate patterns created on the surface of the water and transferred to the paper by laying it down and taking an impression of the paints. The whole process then starts again with the next print, so no two are exactly the same.
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.
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.
Initiatives like Pre-orders and Seconds Sales help to avoid over-production or waste. Our like-minded bindery recycles even the paper dust created during production.
