Handmade Paper Notebook - Dark Grey With Off-White Leaf Motif (100 pages)

The Product

A special place where you can quietly sit and record your thoughts, ideas and musings. A notebook that can be a keepsake for the future. This fabulous paper has deckled and finished edges and can be used for printing, writing and painting. It also makes a unique gift for the artist, writer or doodler in your life.

This A5 size, 100page volume contains beige handmade pages.
The cover is paperback with beautiful dark grey handmade paper.
Each book has a screen printed offwhite organic leaf on the cover
The binding is side sewn with white linen waxed thread.
Its a luxurious experience writing on handmade cotton paper.

Dimensions (cms): 18 x 12

Weight: 220g

What Goes Into Making Blue Cat Paper?

India is the world's 2nd largest hub for cloth manufacturing. It uses over 35 million tonnes of raw cotton every year for manufacturing clothes. During the manufacturing process there is about 3 to 5% wastage of the cotton fabric that we call chindi. These are secondary waste cut pieces that end up in the landfill, dumps or taken back to make yarn. Bluecat Paper uses this in its hand paper making unit. This is possible because cotton contains very high cellulose and therefore is at the very heart of all handmade paper. Blue Cat's handmade paper is made from secondary waste such as chindi, banana, coffee husk, coconut husk , and lemon grass.  Chindi is collected from nearby manufacturing units, sorted by colour and then readied for the beating process.  The  using ecofriendly, sustainable dyes so that the paper is available in various colours. What's more is that no water is wasted while making this paper as all the water used during production is recycled back to production. 

The Artisans

Local male and female artisans are elevated from unskilled to semi skilled status by training them on the handmade paper making process. This training program lasts for nearly 5 months.

Your Impact

The method followed for making this recycled, handmade paper is an ideal and environmentally friendly way of making paper. The resultant paper is 100% upcycled and sustainable because it does not require full grown trees to be felled and makes productive use of cotton waste, which would have otherwise ended up in a landfill. 

Why we like it

This clean, green, mean paper will change the way you write. It saves water, protects forests from being destroyed, uses ecofriendly dyes and recycles waste from the textile industry and creates local employment! Now what about that isn't awesome!