Designer Coptic-Bound Handmade Paper Journal - Green
The Product
A special place where you can quietly sit and record your thoughts, ideas and musings. This designer journal with special edged paper can be a keepsake for the future. It features hand sewn coptic binding and is perfect for daily reflections, selfawareness and just to get you writing again. It also makes a unique gift for the artist, writer, poet or doodler in your life. The paper is dyed with plantbased and other natural dyes, so the papers are extra ecofriendly and earthy. Don't cut trees for paper and notebooks. Support sustainable, recycled products!
This A5 size journal includes:
A wraparound handmade paper jacket with an attractive binding option
160 pages of white deckleedged paper
Each book is lovingly hand sewn by skilled artisans
Coptic form of bookbinding where signatures are attached to each other through chain stitch linking. This form of binding is nonadhesive and is glue free
The patterns on the journal are screen printed with waterbased inks
Features bright pink flower designs on gorgeous green handmade paper with a dark grey crochet thread tieup.
The paper is deckle edged and is made from cotton rags.
Product Specifications:
Product description: Designer CopticBound Handmade Paper Journal Green
Package contains: 1 Designer CopticBound Handmade Paper Journal Green
Dimensions (cms): 24 x 16 x 2
Weight: 330g
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!