A botanical engraving of passiflora — the passion flower — fills the canvas cover in deep indigo on an ochre ground: the flower's extraordinary spiky corona at the centre, tendrils curling outward, buds and leaves rendered with the precision of a naturalist's study. Part of Slow's Libri Muti (Mute Books) series, this notebook is made entirely by hand in Florence using traditional printing and bookbinding techniques that Founders Roberto di Filitto and Nathalie Schneider have spent years researching and reviving.
The pages open flat and stay there, held by exposed coptic-stitch binding. The edges of the page block are hand-coloured in slate blue — a colour that echoes the ink of the engraving itself. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Passiflora botanical engraving — hand-coloured page edges: blue
Bound notebook — canvas cover — 15×21cm — 320 pages
Blank soft white pages, 80 gsm — PEFC certified, acid-free
Exposed spine stitching, lay-flat construction, hand-coloured page edges
'Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity' — Hermann Hesse
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