Handmade, Recycled Paper Hardbound 100-Page Notebook
The Product
A special place where you can quietly sit and record your thoughts, ideas and musings. This designer notebook features a hardbound cover and handmade pages, and can be a keepsake for the future. It 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!
Available in 2 colours: White with grey print and black with offwhite print
Product Specifications:
Product description: Handmade, Recycled Paper Hardbound Notebook
Package contains: 1 Handmade, Recycled Paper Hardbound Notebook
Colours available: White with grey print and black with offwhite print
Size: A6
Number of pages: 100
Features: Fine handmade white paper. The binding is sidesewn with white linen waxed thread
Dimensions (cms): 21 x 15 x 2
Weight: 300g
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 and we cannot wait to use it to doodle. 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!