Our Notebooks

📚 Our Notebooks

For our notebook covers, we use 250gsm FSC-certified, recyclable paper with a subtle texture. This texture is an important detail for us, as we believe it adds to the sensory experience and makes our notebooks more enjoyable to hold and use.

For the inside pages, we use 100gsm ivory-coloured, acid-free, FSC-certified paper from Clairefontaine. Its thickness makes it suitable for a wide range of pens and inks, with excellent resistance to ink bleeding through to the other side of the page. We're particularly confident in the quality of our notebooks! :)

Why ivory colour?

We also chose ivory rather than bright white for a reason. Its warmer tone helps reduce glare and makes writing more comfortable on the eyes. Think of the soft, natural paper colour you'd find in a book.

Notebook Production

Once our notebooks come off the printing press, we carefully fold them by hand and place them into our handmade wooden presses, where they rest for a full day. After pressing, each notebook is trimmed to its final size and carefully packed in a biodegradable bag, ready for shipping.

From start to finish, every notebook goes through our hands, with each step carried out carefully and by hand.

Our Special Papers

Gmund Bier Series

In this series, we used perfectly finished Gmund Bier Papers: Pils, Ale, and Bock. This remarkable paper from the Gmund mill is made using elemental chlorine-free pulp and spent brewer's grain. The names of the collection belie their origins: Lager, Pils, and Ale are just three of the options. There is an embossed logo detail on the lower front corner of the notebooks.

Nature Series / Crush

Discover the charm of nature with our special set of notebooks representing soil, seed, water, and air.

Crush is an eco-friendly range of papers by Favini, made by replacing up to 15% of virgin tree pulp with the process residues of organic products.

Crush paper includes by-products from citrus fruits, grapes, cherries, lavender, corn, olives, coffee, kiwi fruits, hazelnuts, almonds, and now Cocoa. These natural raw materials are saved from landfill and used to make these distinctive and vivid papers.

Crush is FSC® certified, GMO free, contains 40% post-consumer recycled waste and is produced with EKOenergy, resulting in a 20% reduction in carbon footprint. Both the production process and the product are protected by European patent.

Vita Series \ Materica

We use the Materica series of papers from Fedrigoni in the production of our Vita series. Pulp-coloured paper and boards are made with 40% CTMP fibres, 25% pure environmentally friendly fibres, 20% recycled material, and 15% cotton fibres. The cotton fibres create roughness on the surface, and pure cellulose fibres add volume and strength.

Our Lay-flat Series

If you're particular about the quality of the paper you write on, we think you're going to love what we've chosen for this series. We've spent a lot of time researching, testing, and comparing different papers to find just the right one. It's taken plenty of trial and error, but we're incredibly happy with the result and confident in the quality of our choice.

These notebooks were made in our beautiful hometown, Izmir 🌴🌊, in a printing company founded in 1992 by a father and son, whose passion for their craft goes all the way back to 1957. We’re so grateful to them for patiently working with us through every little detail as we searched for the perfect inner paper. 🙏🏼💛

We truly believe all the effort was worth it, especially if you care about paper quality as we do!