Inkblot Arabica Sketchbook

Inkblot Arabica Sketchbook

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  • Capturing the atmosphere of Renaissance-style leather-bound books, this Inkblot design pays homage to the delicate art of gold tooling. We added a richly saturated dark blue background to add a bit of edge to the look of finely crafted leather.

    When we first started making Paperblanks journals, we found a fragment of William Shakespeare's handwriting and knew it could be an inspiring journal cover. Soon after, we added designs featuring the writings of Ernest Hemingway and Jane Austen, creating a series that would become our Embellished Manuscripts Collection. These first covers were minimalist designs with literary manuscripts written in black ink on beige paper. Eventually, our creative impulses began to take over, and we tried playing with the design by adding a gold frame.

    Starting from a photograph of a small, magnificent piece of gold ornamentation, our Art Director created a full frame for the Shakespeare manuscript and highlighted it with a burnt orange background. Of course, our curiosity about what might come next didn't end there! When we removed the manuscript, we immediately saw the possibilities for a design inspired by classic Renaissance leather bindings. And so, our foundational Old Leather Collection was born.

    Today, we are free to play with frame shapes and background colors, and that original beige and black design continues to form the backbone of two of our most enduringly popular collections.

  • Page type Acid-free paper (fountain pen friendly)
    Back Cover Accordion inner pocket for storing notes

    Journal Sizes / Page Count /

    Paper Weight

    20.5cm x 30cm / 112 pages / 200gsm

    • FSC-certified Fedrigoni mixed media art paper (suitable for acrylic, watercolour, pen and pencil)
    Cover type Hardcover Embossed Journal
    Origin Canada

  • Paperblanks is a Canadian manufacturer that produces quality journals that are not only attractive but also extremely well-structured, bound using traditional techniques; the bindings are not glued (a binding technique that, while economical for the manufacturer, eventually leads to page loss) but are instead all sewn.

    All Paperblanks journals are bound using one of two methods. They are either hand-sewn using 'Coptic' binding, which originated in 4th-century Egypt, or Smyth sewn, the most durable binding technique, which allows the journal to open flat without page loss.

    All Paperblanks journals use acid-free, archival-quality, high-opacity laid writing paper. Their journals also include a ribbon page marker and an inner pocket inside the back cover to store your notes.

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    • Capturing the atmosphere of Renaissance-style leather-bound books, this Inkblot design pays homage to the delicate art of gold tooling. We added a richly saturated dark blue background to add a bit of edge to the look of finely crafted leather.

      When we first started making Paperblanks journals, we found a fragment of William Shakespeare's handwriting and knew it could be an inspiring journal cover. Soon after, we added designs featuring the writings of Ernest Hemingway and Jane Austen, creating a series that would become our Embellished Manuscripts Collection. These first covers were minimalist designs with literary manuscripts written in black ink on beige paper. Eventually, our creative impulses began to take over, and we tried playing with the design by adding a gold frame.

      Starting from a photograph of a small, magnificent piece of gold ornamentation, our Art Director created a full frame for the Shakespeare manuscript and highlighted it with a burnt orange background. Of course, our curiosity about what might come next didn't end there! When we removed the manuscript, we immediately saw the possibilities for a design inspired by classic Renaissance leather bindings. And so, our foundational Old Leather Collection was born.

      Today, we are free to play with frame shapes and background colors, and that original beige and black design continues to form the backbone of two of our most enduringly popular collections.

    • Page type Acid-free paper (fountain pen friendly)
      Back Cover Accordion inner pocket for storing notes

      Journal Sizes / Page Count /

      Paper Weight

      20.5cm x 30cm / 112 pages / 200gsm

      • FSC-certified Fedrigoni mixed media art paper (suitable for acrylic, watercolour, pen and pencil)
      Cover type Hardcover Embossed Journal
      Origin Canada

    • Paperblanks is a Canadian manufacturer that produces quality journals that are not only attractive but also extremely well-structured, bound using traditional techniques; the bindings are not glued (a binding technique that, while economical for the manufacturer, eventually leads to page loss) but are instead all sewn.

      All Paperblanks journals are bound using one of two methods. They are either hand-sewn using 'Coptic' binding, which originated in 4th-century Egypt, or Smyth sewn, the most durable binding technique, which allows the journal to open flat without page loss.

      All Paperblanks journals use acid-free, archival-quality, high-opacity laid writing paper. Their journals also include a ribbon page marker and an inner pocket inside the back cover to store your notes.

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