The Mute Books (Libri Muti) collection by Slow Design features notebooks made completely by hand in Florence, Italy using time honoured printing and binding techniques. Choosing your own cover from among the selection of literary classics will inspire you to record your own story, thoughts, lists, or ideas. They colour the edges of the book block by hand, a very nice touch reminiscent of the ancient craft of bookbinding.
Cover: Still Life with Fruit by Jacob van Walscapelle (1675) – hand-coloured slice : orange
Bound notebook - Canvas Cover - 15×21cm – 160 pages
Blank soft white pages, 80 gsm
Exposed spine stitching with 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