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Two ways of making a notebook, from France and from Japan.

The Black Cypress and Botanical Garden notebooks are bound by hand in south-west France by 23janvier, with an exposed Japanese stab binding: the thread fans across the top edge, so you can see how the block is held together. The covers are thick cotton paper printed with plants, and inside are 44 folded pages of cream paper for writing or drawing.

The RO-BIKI pocket notebooks, here in Hokusai, Lighthouse and Mountain Night covers, come from Yamamoto Paper in Sakai, Osaka, paper merchants since 1972. They are passport-sized and thread-bound to open flat, with 60 pages of ivory dot grid paper and a waxed cover that creases and darkens as it is carried. The White Cat A5 notebook, drawn by the illustrator mula for RYU-RYU in Ashiya, has 64 pages of 5 mm grid.
A hand holds a sheet of textured paper printed with a delicate wildflower and fern pattern against an outdoor background of grass and sky.
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  • Botanical Garden A5 notebook with the cover lifted, showing the printed inside cover and plain pages
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    Botanical Garden Hand-Bound Notebook, A5

    £28
    £28
    23janvierFrance

    Botanical Garden Hand-Bound Notebook, A5
    £28
    £28
  • Yamamoto Paper RO-BIKI waxed pocket notebook, front cover printed with Hokusai's Tokaido river crossing at Kanaya.

    Hokusai Tokaido RO-BIKI Waxed Pocket Notebook, Dot Grid

    £7
    £7
    Yamamoto PaperJapan

    Hokusai Tokaido RO-BIKI Waxed Pocket Notebook, Dot Grid
    £7
    £7
    Free delivery
  • Black Cypress A5 notebook, dark cypress sprigs on a warm white cotton paper cover, stitched at the top

    Black Cypress Hand-Bound Notebook, A5

    £24
    £24
    23janvierFrance

    Black Cypress Hand-Bound Notebook, A5
    £24
    £24
    Free delivery
  • Yamamoto Paper RO-BIKI waxed pocket notebook, ochre cover printed with a white lighthouse on a blue headland under a pale sun.

    Lighthouse RO-BIKI Waxed Pocket Notebook, Dot Grid

    £7
    £7
    Yamamoto PaperJapan

    Lighthouse RO-BIKI Waxed Pocket Notebook, Dot Grid
    £7
    £7
    Free delivery
  • Yamamoto Paper RO-BIKI waxed pocket notebook, cover printed with layered mountains under a starry night sky.

    Mountain Night RO-BIKI Waxed Pocket Notebook, Dot Grid

    £7
    £7
    Yamamoto PaperJapan

    Mountain Night RO-BIKI Waxed Pocket Notebook, Dot Grid
    £7
    £7
    Free delivery
  • Front cover of the White Cat A5 notebook, mula’s illustration of a white cat stretched across textured red and orange, by RYU-RYU

    White Cat Japanese A5 Grid Notebook by mula

    £8
    £8
    RYU-RYUJapan

    White Cat Japanese A5 Grid Notebook by mula
    £8
    £8
    Free delivery