A detail from Blooming Clover by Tac van Loom — drawn from the Rijksmuseum collection — fills the canvas cover in deep, painterly greens: white clover, violet iris and wild grasses rendered with the quiet attention of an 18th century master. 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 160 pages, it opens flat and stays there, held by exposed coptic-stitch binding. The edges of the page block are hand-coloured in lilac — an unexpected lift against the dark, mossy tones of the cover. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Blooming Clover detail by Tac van Loom, Rijksmuseum — hand-coloured page edges: lilac
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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