Product details:
- Made from leather and recycled cotton paper
- 23cm x 16cm
- Handmade, with hand-stitched spine, in Jaipur, India
- Care instructions: Wipe with a damp cloth
Merchant Campbell sources our paper products from Kalpana, a family-owned business in the heart of the fabric making area of Jaipur. In the villages and district around Jaipur in India, the traditional fabric industry is a major employer. People are employed in indigo dying, block printing, block-print carving, fabric weaving and more.
And, interestingly, they're also employed in the handmade paper industry because the paper that's made around Jaipur is cotton paper, which uses cotton waste from the cotton fabric industry.
Kalpana Handmade Papers has introduced the traditional village art of paper-making to the global community. Recognised by the Indian Government for its services to regional communities and awarded for its eco-friendly business, Kalpana is essentially a family business with a great emphasis on the environment, recycling, high-quality products and its staff – this gets a big tick from us. The leather used to cover the journals is also tanned locally, by artisans who've learnt their trade from their fathers, and their fathers before them.
Any irregularities are characteristics of handcrafted and recycled origins. It is only natural that occasional variances in colour, grain, texture and consistency occur. The originality of the leather, paper and slightly distressed finish are what make these journals beautiful.
The quote:
EB White: I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
I think this could be my mantra. EB White, the author of favourite children's novels such as Charlotte's Webb and Stuart Little, also wrote for the New Yorker and was known for his eloquent style and broad appeal to people of all ages. His sense of humour was fabulous as exhibited by the quote on our journal and this one too: Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
