A profile portrait from the Rijksmuseum collection fills the canvas cover in the jewelled tones of the Italian Renaissance: a young woman in embroidered red brocade, her pale hair swept back, set against a ground of flowering greenery. The painting is attributed to Antonio del Pollaiolo — one of the foremost Florentine masters of the 15th century — and carries with it the full weight of that tradition. 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 cornflower blue — a quiet contrast to the warmth of the painted cover. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Portrait of a Young Woman, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Rijksmuseum — 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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