A detail from Palma by Frans Jansz Post — drawn from the Rijksmuseum collection — fills the canvas cover in the warm, hazy tones of a 17th century Brazilian landscape: a tall palm reaching into open sky, colonial buildings settled among tropical foliage below. 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.
At 320 pages, it opens flat and stays there, held by exposed coptic-stitch binding. The edges of the page block are hand-coloured in powder blue — quiet and considered against the golden warmth of the painted cover. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Palma detail by Frans Jansz Post, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — 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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